Small gardens
An overview of projects, products and exclusive articles about small gardens
Project • By Vogue & Vine - Landscape Designers Sydney • Residential Landscape
Inner West Garden Sydney
The brief for the compact outdoor garden in Sydney's Inner West was to create a contemporary entertainers garden. The highligh was to be a contemporary industrial feel a place for weekend & night time entertaining with their friends.
The secret to the success of this project was to simplify the material selection and focus on 3 key areas - Microconcrete flooring with limited visual joins, Spotted Gum carpentry for seating, privacy screens & garden beds, monocoloured fabrics on seat cushions & outdoor sofa.
Jack Hibbert
The biggest design challenge was access for both demolition & construction. There was no side access, so everything needed to go through the internal of the terrace.
Fortunately the contractors were in... More
Project • By PAUL CREMOUX studio • Private Houses
Casa Nirau
The project foresees the opportunity to use reinterpretation as a consistent creative tool. By mimicking orientation strategy and a very simple functional diagram, the new construction relinks to the notion of history and accustomed-living behavior patterns. Open space allow direct sun light to enter from the south side, east and west side are offset inner plot, so only north side is at property line. The idea is to transit from a 2,754 sq.ft. Old construction to a 1,937 sq.ft. one, mainly same program, roughly different space quality experience.
Weather analysis help us to decide various key features: Mexico City climate plays a very important roll, since 70% of the days per year can be used for outdoor living. The main living-dining ar... More