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ShadeFXThe homeowners needed a shaded area over the shallow end of their pool for their young son to lounge and relax. A 16’x10’ freestanding retractable canopy was mounted over the pool, wide enough to clear the pool cover tracks.
Amantea ArchitectsRosedale ‘PARK’ is a detached garage and fence structure designed for a residential property in an old Toronto community rich in trees and preserved parkland. Located on a busy corner lot, the owner’s requirements for the project were two fold:
1) They wanted to manage views from passers-by into their private pool and entertainment areas while maintaining a connection to the ‘park-like’ public realm; and
2) They wanted to include a place to park their car that wouldn’t jeopardize the natural character of the property or spoil one’s experience of the place.
The idea was to use the new garage, fence, hard and soft landscaping together with the existing house, pool and two large and ‘protected’ trees to create a setting and a particular sense of place for each of the anticipated activities including lounging by the pool, cooking, dining alfresco and entertaining large groups of friends.
Using wood as the primary building material, the solution was to create a light, airy and luminous envelope around each component of the program that would provide separation without containment. The garage volume and fence structure, framed in structural sawn lumber and a variety of engineered wood products, are wrapped in a dark stained cedar skin that is at once solid and opaque and light and transparent.
The fence, constructed of staggered horizontal wood slats was designed for privacy but also lets light and air pass through. At night, the fence becomes a large light fixture providing an ambient glow for both the private garden as well as the public sidewalk. Thin striations of light wrap around the interior and exterior of the property. The wall of the garage separating the pool area and the parked car is an assembly of wood framed windows clad in the same fence material. When illuminated, this poolside screen transforms from an edge into a nearly transparent lantern, casting a warm glow by the pool. The large overhang gives the area by the by the pool containment and sense of place. It edits out the view of adjacent properties and together with the pool in the immediate foreground frames a view back toward the home’s family room. Using the pool as a source of light and the soffit of the overhang a reflector, the bright and luminous water shimmers and reflects light off the warm cedar plane overhead. All of the peripheral storage within the garage is cantilevered off of the main structure and hovers over native grade to significantly reduce the footprint of the building and minimize the impact on existing tree roots.
The natural character of the neighborhood inspired the extensive use of wood as the projects primary building material. The availability, ease of construction and cost of wood products made it possible to carefully craft this project. In the end, aside from its quiet, modern expression, it is well-detailed, allowing it to be a pragmatic storage box, an elevated roof 'garden', a lantern at night, a threshold and place of occupation poolside for the owners.
Photo: Bryan Groulx
The Lazy GardenerSimple flowering summer pots flank either end of the pool area with a low boxwood hedge. Nice clean simple lines for easy upkeep around the backyard pool.
DDLA Design Landscape ArchitectureCompleted in 2021, this exquisite Preston Hollow property with a modern architectural style, was updated with a new luxury pool, concrete retaining wall, outdoor living and expansive landscaping. The property features details such as snap-tie concrete retaining wall, concrete step pads, native landscaping, tank head fire pit area, stone steps, dry stream bed, shade plantings and landscape lighting.
Van Kirk & Sons Pools and SpasThis elegant pool and spa in Boca Raton is really the perfect touch to this modern custom luxury home. With fire strip along the back of the spa, a rectangular tabletop, and custom stepping stones, this is sure to please the new guests!
The Easy GardenerBackyard used to its full potential. Created large entertaining area by pushing pool to one side of the yard. Softened the chain link fence by adding artificial Boxwood on both sides.
Photo Credit: Deborah Olson
DRC Pools This is the finished product of our design that includes a modern style 34' x 16' pool and 12" elevated spa.
Other details include:
•Pool plaster in mini pebble Aqua Blue with abalone shells
•Glass tile on water line, spa spillway & 2" trim on all steps & benches
•Outdoor kitchen with leathered Quartz countertops, quartz ledger stone veneer with smooth stucco interior.
•Outdoor Kitchen equipment: BBQ, Refrigerator, Ice Maker, Sink & drawers (Twin Eagles & True)
•Linear gas firepit and sitting area.
•Ledger stone columns with fire water bowls by Grand Effects, and color concrete decks, coping & wall caps with sand finishes.
•Artificial Tiger Turf
•Custom flush mounted LED light strips under wall caps, steps and counter tops.
•Pool furniture by Ledge Lounger & The Patio Place.
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