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A healthy environment that is also visually appealing in our homes has become increasingly sought when it comes to designing houses and residential spaces, especially during the world’s current context. One of the most successful ways of achieving this is through a thoughtful design of the landscape that complements the built project. The art of landscaping is the arrangement of nature’s raw material elements, like vegetation and planting, combined with nonliving elements, such as exterior structures, paving, and decking, in order to create site-specific solutions that enhance the exterior spaces of a project.
The discipline requires knowledge and very specific techniques that many times go beyond the architectural fields per se, and it is why landscape architecture and design have appeared as an expertise branch of design. This has made it very common for architects to resort to collaborative work with landscape offices when working on residential projects.
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Particularly in residential landscape architecture, we have found two main ways of resolving gardens, depending on the setting and context on which the project sits. In houses that are already set in natural and green environments, the main objective of landscaping is to tame this exterior greenery as it approaches the house. On the other hand, when the project is located in more dense residential areas, the challenge is to integrate greenery into the house as much as possible through terraces, exterior flooring, and interior courtyards.
Bringing Landscape Into the Interiors
Villa Fifty-Fifty / Studioninedots
Landscape by Studio Frank Heijligers & Buijtels
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Fitzroy North House 02 / Rob Kennon Architects
Landscape by Eckersley Garden Architecture
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King Bill House / Austin Maynard Architects
Landscape by Bush Projects
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MeMo House / BAM! arquitectura
Landscape by Bulla
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Garden House / Austin Maynard Architects
Landscape by Eckersley Garden Architecture
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POP-UP House / FIGR Architecture & Design
Landscape by Mud Office
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Mulungu House / Venta Arquitetos + Mariana Meneguetti
Landscape by EMBYÁ
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Fleet House / Stanton Williams
Landscape by Bradley-Hole Schoenaich Landscape
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Exterior Landscaping in Natural Settings
Metrick Cottage and Boathouse / Akb Architects
Landscape by Rockscape Landscape
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Hood River Residence / Scott | Edwards Architecture
Landscape by PLACE
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Tierwlthaus House / Feldman Architecture
Landscape by Surface Design Inc.
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C79 House / Base taller
Landscape by Mesa y Uribe paisajistas
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House with the Soaring Rock / Spasm Design
Landscape by A.Y. Ratiwalla
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