Bianchi Design

Home Improvement Professionals , Swimming Pool Builders
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Bianchi Design
44 Reviews

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Working in the arid beauty of the Sonoran Desert, pool
and landscape designer Kirk Bianchi designed this set of water-
shapes and hardscape treatments to provide visual transitions
between a custom home and its surroundings. He achieved
this feat using crisp geometry, striking landscape details,
a rich materials palette, sleek perimeter overflows and
subtle water and fire features that deftly tie interi-
ors to exteriors and the vastness of the desert beyond.
Country: United States
Everything about this project was dramatic,starting with the setting. Located just north ofTucson, AZ, in a development known as Saguaro Ranch, the property is part
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To amplify the initial impression of
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When visitors pass through the gate into the forecourt, they experience another array of cantilevered cast concrete steps that “float” up to the front door. Bianchi, a Phoenix based pool and landscape designer, set this rhythmic path to echo the lines and ascending forms of the architects dramatic...
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As part of his Pool and landscape design, Bianchi set a trapezoidal corten reflection pool that doubles as a room divider, channeling visitors for several paces along the entry path by reaching out from the courtyard wall near the gate before allowing them access to the forecourt’s lounging area....
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When visitors pass through the gate into the forecourt, they experience another array of cantilevered cast concrete steps that “float” up to the front door. Bianchi, a Phoenix based pool and landscape designer, set this rhythmic path to echo the lines and ascending forms of the architects dramatic...
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Water flows over the corten rusted-steel edges of this vanishing edge water feature and down into a small channel also filled with pebbles. This whole structure was set to finish flush with only a half-inch gap between the water surface and a cast concrete seat wall that extends along the...
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Water flows over the corten rusted-steel edges of this courtyard waterfeature and down into a small channel also filled with pebbles. This whole structure was set to finish flush with only a half-inch gap between the water surface and a cast concrete seat wall that extends along the courtyard’s...
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When visitors pass through the gate into the forecourt, they experience another array of cantilevered cast concrete steps that “float” up to the front door. Bianchi, a Phoenix based pool and landscape designer, set this rhythmic path to echo the lines and ascending forms of the architects dramatic...
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Once you reach the backyard, Pool and landscape designer Kirk Bianchi says he set the pool and spa tucked up against a slope cut into the canyon wall. The spa,which has a raised,seating-height profile and a circular shape eight feet across, was the first element placed in the backyard and...
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Visitors can step up to raised levels on both sides of the spa and pool: To the right is an outdoor seating area with a circular fire feature mounted in the cantilevered cast concrete steps. This feature mimics the form of the spa and has a sculptural fire element created by Brooklyn, N.Y.-based...
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The 25-by-15-foot reverse vanishing edge pool echoes the trapezoidal shape of the waterfeature and seat walls in the forecourt, while the leading-edge overflow reinforces the feminine curve of the seat walls introduced as one first experienced the home's front entry. The bold curve intentionally...
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The gutter of this deck level vanishing edge swimming pool is hidden below a cast in place concrete coping. Majestic plum pebble tec echoes the warm color palate of the surroundings.
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Pool and landscape designer Kirk Bianchi set a series of small spillways to accentuate the central planter wall behind the pool. The wall embraces a Palo Verde tree specially selected to serve as a focal point because of its sculptural perfection. For their part, the spillways are clustered in...
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Pool and landscape designer Kirk Bianchi set a series of small spillways to accentuate the central planter wall behind the pool. The wall embraces a Palo Verde tree specially selected to serve as a focal point because of its sculptural perfection. For their part, the spillways are clustered in...
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The 25-by-15-foot reverse vanishing edge pool echoes the trapezoidal shape of the waterfeature and seat walls in the forecourt, while the leading-edge overflow reinforces the feminine curve of the seat walls introduced as one first experienced the home's front entry. The bold curve intentionally...
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Visible from the kitchen and guest bed rooms, the third primary exterior space is a “morning patio” located on the east side of the house. Broad and finished in the ubiquitous concrete grid pattern, this private area repeats the motif seen throughout the exterior of large bowls placed on...
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Visible from the kitchen and guest bed rooms, the third primary exterior space is a “morning patio” located on the east side of the house. Broad and finished in the ubiquitous concrete grid pattern, this private area repeats the motif seen throughout the exterior of large bowls placed on...
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Visible from the kitchen and guest bed rooms, the third primary exterior space is a “morning patio” located on the east side of the house. Broad and finished in the ubiquitous concrete grid pattern, this private area repeats the motif seen throughout the exterior of large bowls placed on...
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Visible from the kitchen and guest bed rooms, the third primary exterior space is a “morning patio” located on the east side of the house. Broad and finished in the ubiquitous concrete grid pattern, this private area repeats the motif seen throughout the exterior of large bowls placed on...
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Finished in the ubiquitous concrete grid pattern, this private area repeats the motif seen throughout the exterior of large bowls placed on trapezoidal pedestals and planted with agaves. It’s another space in which the landscape rises above a series of low walls,but in this case, the sweep of those...
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A sandy finish exposed aggregate concrete step stone path is texturally contrasted with the zen like sea of pebbles that embrace the area. Islands of golden barrel cacti glow on either side, nestled in by 6' concrete wok bowls on trapezoid pedestals.
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