The Garden as a Room

 
 

Image - Baillie Baillie
Words, Colin Baillie.

Developing work for a new house on the Isle of Skye.

Treating the garden as a room invites the landscape right into the centre of the building, and protects a little piece of it. Big openings frame views out, but can be closed off to hunker down in winter. The house is divided in two, with a simple volume on each side, connected by a covered walkway. The garden becomes part of the floor plan, with the proportion of a generous room. Windows look out over the landscape, and in towards the protected garden. Prospect and refuge.

 
 
 
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