Visitors cross a bridge over a reflecting pool to enter the house. An entry vestibule ... the kitchen is a dining courtyard, which receives morning sunlight but is shaded from western sun in the late ...

“We noticed when we were building the house that the air flow across the pool and into the other courtyard kept the ... the center of the house is a glass-enclosed great room with a covered ...

The house is organized in a compact volume of two floors, complemented by three courtyards all different in size and features. A first large courtyard, enclosed, intimate, situates on the south ...

This Ahmedabad house by Achyutam Designs is a homage to concrete and a celebration of the curve, a family house designed to ...

The circular house faces a sunken courtyard that was used by the British Army to test underwater missiles from the 1950s ...

Bamboo and an overhanging roof characterise Godai Pavilion, a pool house that Spanish studio Baldó Arquitectura has created for a home in rural Cantabria. Located in northern Spain, the ...

Yin Yu Tang, sometimes known simply as the Chinese house, is one of the most popular features of Peabody Essex Museum. Toward the end of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), a prosperous merchant by the ...

This creates a "thermal draw," helping to pull cool air up from the rock below into the enclosed central courtyard and creating the house's own micro-climate. The cool air can then be drawn into ...

In typical Roman style, the rooms were arranged around a courtyard (or atrium), which was open to the elements, allowing rain to collect in a small sunken pool ... courtyard house is one of ...