Marin County ResidenceContemporary Bathroom, San Francisco

Push the BoundariesIf you can’t be outside properly, then glass walls are the next best thing. In this house in Marin County, near San Francisco, architect Dirk Denison melds indoors and out with the use of glass walls and internal courtyards. He poked holes in the facade to create small gardens, and glass rooms extend off the structure into their own gardens — there’s often glass where you’d expect to see a wall. In this bathroom, a glass wall opens onto an internal courtyard and the mirror above the vanity appears to hover in space.

An internal courtyard elsewhere in the house serves another bathroom.

Tree in pot for outside stairwell window

puits de lumière creusé dans la courrette nord pour la salle de bains

Simple courtyard with big potted plant - change with seasons