photo by Seed Studio, editing by TJ Sugnet
Источник вдохновения для домашнего уюта: солнечный регулярный сад среднего размера на заднем дворе в стиле модернизм с хорошей освещенностью и покрытием из гравия

A local Houston art collector hired us to create a low maintenance, sophisticated, contemporary landscape design. She wanted her property to compliment her eclectic taste in architecture, outdoor sculpture, and modern art. Her house was built with a minimalist approach to decoration, emphasizing right angles and windows instead of architectural keynotes. The west wing of the house was only one story, while the east wing was two-story. The windows in both wings were larger than usual, so that visitors could see her art collection from the home’s exterior. Near one of the large rear windows, there was an abstract metal sculpture designed in the form of a spiral. When she initially contacted us, the surrounding property had only a few trees and indigenous grass as vegetation. This was actually a good beginning point with us, because it allowed us to develop a contemporary landscape design that featured a very linear, crisp look supportive of the home and its contents. We began by planting a garden around the large contemporary sculpture near the window. Landscape designers planted horsetail reed under windows, along the sides of the home, and around the corners. This vegetation is very resilient and hardy, and requires little trimming, weeding, or mulching. This helped unite the diverse elements of sculpture, contemporary architecture, and landscape design into a more fluid harmony that preserved the proportions of each unique element, but eliminated any tendency for the elements to clash with one another. We then added two stonework designs to the landscape surrounding the contemporary art collection and home. The first was a linear walkway we build from concrete pads purchased through a retail vendor as a cost-saving benefit to our client. We created this walkway to follow the perimeter of the home so that visitors could walk around the entire property and admire the outdoor sculptures and the collections of modern art visible through the windows. This was especially enjoyable at night, when the entire home was brightly lit from within. To add a touch of tranquility and quite repose to the stark right angles of the home and surrounding contemporary landscape, we designed a special seating area toward the northwest corner of the property. We wanted to create a sense of contemplation in this area, so we departed from the linear and angular designs of the surrounding landscape and established a theme of circular geometry. We laid down gravel as ground cover, then placed large, circular pads arranged like giant stepping stones that led up to a stone patio filled with chairs. The shape of the granite pads and the contours of the graveled area further complimented the spirals and turns in the outdoor metal sculpture, and balanced the entire contemporary landscape design with proportional geometric forms of lines, angles, and curves. This particular contemporary landscape design also has a sense of movement attached to it. All stonework leads to a destination of some sort. The linear pathway provides a guided tour around the home, garden, and modern art collection. The granite pathway stones create movement toward separate space where the entire experience of art, vegetation, and architecture can be viewed and experienced as a unity. Contemporary landscaping designs like create form out of feeling by using basic geometric forms and variations of forms. Sometimes very stark forms are used to create a sense of absolutism or contrast. At other times, forms are blended, or even distorted to suggest a sense of complex emotion, or a sense of multi-dimensional reality. The exact nature of the design is always highly subjective, and developed on a case-by-case basis with the client.

Nathan Beeck
На фото: большой засухоустойчивый сад на переднем дворе в стиле модернизм с садовой дорожкой или калиткой и покрытием из гравия

Garden Arbor and Fence
Идея дизайна: засухоустойчивый сад среднего размера на боковом дворе в стиле модернизм с полуденной тенью и покрытием из гравия

TLC
Свежая идея для дизайна: солнечный участок и сад среднего размера на переднем дворе в стиле модернизм с садовой дорожкой или калиткой, хорошей освещенностью и покрытием из гравия - отличное фото интерьера

Ryann Ford
Источник вдохновения для домашнего уюта: участок и сад на переднем дворе в стиле модернизм с покрытием из гравия

Xeric landscape designed and built by Southern Landscape. This Austin homeowner reduced their turf area by over 17,000 square feet, reducing water consumption and maintenance. The remaining turf areas were required for the septic leach field. Limestone retaining walls with leuders caps control erosion. The plant palette contains lantana, plumbago, various grasses, and yuccas, all chosen for their specific water usage appropriate to the area. Landscape lighting was also added to highlight the beauty of this large xeriscape.

Rust colored concrete retaining wall creates a natural toned contrast between the gray concrete driveway and cobbles below and the green and blue plantings above.

Идея дизайна: солнечный, осенний засухоустойчивый сад среднего размера на боковом дворе в стиле модернизм с садовой дорожкой или калиткой, хорошей освещенностью, покрытием из гравия и с деревянным забором

Stair way using Landscape Ties and WAC step lights
На фото: солнечный регулярный сад среднего размера на заднем дворе в стиле модернизм с дорожками, хорошей освещенностью и покрытием из гравия

Shirak Agresta; Sidney Michael; Annette Gutierrez; Becky Bourdeau
На фото: маленький солнечный участок и сад на заднем дворе в стиле модернизм с хорошей освещенностью и покрытием из гравия для на участке и в саду

Идея дизайна: маленький регулярный сад на боковом дворе в стиле модернизм с полуденной тенью и покрытием из гравия для на участке и в саду

Fountain grass and Big Muhly in a xeriscaped yard. All design, fabrication and construction by Davey McEathron Architecture.
Пример оригинального дизайна: маленький солнечный засухоустойчивый сад на переднем дворе в стиле модернизм с хорошей освещенностью и покрытием из гравия для на участке и в саду

The garden space faces North so gets morning sun then mostly in the shade. In the summer especially it is lovely to sit here have breakfast and later in the day under the large Sugar Maple a cool spot to relax and grill. I am asked all the time are there any shade plants to use! as you can see the garden is constantly changing from spring bulbs and spring flowers to summer and fall color. The gravel terrace provides a simple and affordable surface and very European.

Photo: David De Gendt
Стильный дизайн: засухоустойчивый сад среднего размера на заднем дворе в стиле модернизм с растениями в контейнерах, полуденной тенью и покрытием из гравия - последний тренд

Стильный дизайн: осенний засухоустойчивый сад среднего размера на переднем дворе в стиле модернизм с подпорной стенкой, полуденной тенью и покрытием из гравия - последний тренд

Innis Casey Photography
Свежая идея для дизайна: большой тенистый засухоустойчивый сад на заднем дворе в стиле модернизм с местом для костра и покрытием из гравия - отличное фото интерьера

A concrete garden wall serves as a planter and provides privacy to the interior courtyard from the street. Photographer: Greg Thomas, http://optphotography.com/

На фото: большая солнечная спортивная площадка на боковом дворе в стиле модернизм с хорошей освещенностью и покрытием из гравия