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163 Outdoor Room

May be part of Common Areas at the Heart (129), Farmhouse Kitchen (139), Sequence of Sitting Spaces (142), Half-hidden Garden (111), Sunny Place (161).

Conflict

A garden is the place for lying in the grass, swinging, croquet, growing flowers, throwing a ball for the dog. But there is another way of being outdoors: and it needs are not met by the garden at all.

Resolution

Build a place outdoors which has so much enclosure round it, that it takes on the feeling of a room, even though it is open to the sky. To do this, define it at the corners with columns, perhaps roof it partially with a trellis or a sliding canvas roof, and create "walls" around it, with fences, sitting walls, screens, hedges, or the exterior walls of the building itself.

May contain Column Place (226), Garden Wall (173), Sitting Wall (243), Trellised Walk (174), Connection to the Earth (168).