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- Graceful Glass + Winsome Wood = Serene Lake House
- Beyond Fairy Gardens: DIY Cracked Flower Pot Landscapes
- Quirky Cabana: Little Retreat Blends into Sloped Landscape
| Graceful Glass + Winsome Wood = Serene Lake House Posted: 28 Aug 2013 10:00 AM PDT
If given the choice, it seems that most people would prefer to live in a beautiful home surrounded by the peace of nature than in a cramped, noisy city. The only problem is finding a balance between that home and the natural setting in which it sits. Design Workshop achieved this delicate balance in the Over Water house in Pune, India.
The building site is located between the mountains and a lake. Building any structure in such a lovely location detracts from the natural beauty of the place, which is why the designers tried to make as little impact as possible on the surroundings.
The house sits perched like a bird on two columns, with the back facing the mountains for privacy. The glass, wood and steel home includes a large balcony on the water-facing side to allow for stunning, unobstructed views of the lake.
Enclosed on all sides by glass walls, the home offers privacy in the form of wooden shutter-like slats outside of the glass. Natural light is allowed to flow naturally and to touch every surface of the home’s interior.
The designers seem to have succeeded in their quest to create a home that is livable and inviting, but which only causes minimal interference with the natural beauty around it. Keep Going - Check Out These Great Related Dornob Articles:
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| Beyond Fairy Gardens: DIY Cracked Flower Pot Landscapes Posted: 27 Aug 2013 04:00 PM PDT
A slight variation on the popular Fairy Garden phenomena, some people have taken to upcycling broken and abandoned ceramic pots into layered scenes of all sorts.
A Redditor submitted one set of such images, shown above, but there are other examples as well on forums and gardening sites around the internet that can serve as inspiration for those inclined to make their own variants.
Fairy Gardens 101 shows a few, for instance, in greater detail, featuring more fantastical landscapes and other miniature architecture.
The trick, it would seem, is simply to take advantage of the layered views afforded by a broken edge, and to use shards to shore up walkways and platforms to give the entire scene a sense of elevation and implied paths of circulation or at least space to spill over.
The aesthetic need not be limited to fairy fantasies, but they provide a familiar baseline from which more experimental garden artists could easily deviate. Keep Going - Check Out These Great Related Dornob Articles:
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| Quirky Cabana: Little Retreat Blends into Sloped Landscape Posted: 27 Aug 2013 10:00 AM PDT
Contextual and eclectic, you could almost imagine it as a kind of folk architecture, but there is more to this simple building than meets the eye.
For one, despite its colorful mix of materials, a simple and strong concept stands behind the overtly hodge-podge design by Alex Wyndham: the idea of raising up the existing ground and making it into the roof, in turn intended to nurse native plants.
Set in central California, the building uses reclaimed bark (maybe a bit rough for facades, but it does make for a sustainable cladding system), which further helps the structure look like a part of its natural surroundings.
The structure itself is situated to take advantage of the down-slope view of the ocean, framed by three simple windows, while providing a sense of privacy and enclosure along its other faces.
Heating and cooling are entirely passive, neatly built into the fundamentals of the structure and its orientation. Upcycled materials (from reclaimed floorboards to windows) were used wherever possible, making for a green project through and through.
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