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off of hillside down to pool
coming down hillside. Would it be possible to start from basement level all the way down the hill? could it be incorporated in such a way that it does not take away the beauty of the landscape?
Added to 476 ideabooks Last comment "Great use of the steep slope with the pool and waterfall."
Hillside landscape · Natural · Hillside Swimming Pool and Spa · Waterfall
with this Hillside landscape design and construction design in Moraga, Ca. The Hillside swimming pool designed with stones includes water fall. In the back is a beautiful landscape design with a lot of different rose trees, plants of different colors making it a colorful backyard.
Landscape architect in
like hillside waterfall concept. flagstone a little busy, landscape way busy
desert hillside, you have some serious site planning and engineering to consider. When designing a home nestled into the side of a rocky hill outside Phoenix, architects Jon Bernhard and Mike Wetzel of Swabuck Partners knew they had to bring in the engineers and the big trucks — big trucks full of massive
that the hillside was stable and retained its natural beauty, and they enhanced the way the house and its built landscape related to its spectacular surroundings.
The architects were "guided by the owners’ appreciation for outdoor living and the qualities the native desert has to offer," says Bernhard
of the hillside. "The deep roof slopes match and follow the mountain slope, and cantilevered terraces soften the home's imprint on the property," says Bernhard. "This light touch on the site is further represented with the use of desert colors, textures and by blurring the line between the native and
allowing the hillside foliage and the view to be the stars of the show.
In this setting, the boundaries between garden and nature are distinct, but you can also gradually blur the line between the formal and natural spaces. For example, use native plants in formal rows to line the edge of your space, then
grass hillside. This scene offers a beautiful, inwardly focused point of view. Yet the distant landscape is equally powerful, a living work of art that is ever changing. For anyone who sits here, the vista is as much a part of the design scheme as the deck, the bench and the raised planters. It is a
allowing the hillside foliage and the view to be the stars of the show. In this setting, the boundaries between garden and nature are distinct, but you can also gradually blur the line between the formal and natural spaces. For example, use native plants in formal rows to line the edge of your space, then gradually
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steep hillside that would be very difficult to build upon. Hence a cantilever is the logical choice. Here it houses a kitchen/dining area and an adjacent outdoor deck overlooking the tree-lined hillside.