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140 Private Terrace on the Street

May be part of Common Areas at the Heart (129), Sequence of Sitting Spaces (142), Half-hidden Garden (111), Green Streets (51), Pedestrian Street (100).

Conflict

The relationship of a house to a street is often confused: either the house open entirely to the street and there is no privacy; or the house turns its back on the street, and communion with the street life is lost.

Resolution

Let the common rooms open onto a wide terrace or a porch which looks into the street. Raise the terrace slightly above street level and protect it with a low wall, which you can see over if you sit near it, but which prevents people on the street from looking into the common rooms.

May contain Terraced Slope (169), Sitting Circle (185), Garden Wall (173), Half-Open Wall (193), Outdoor Room (163).