Image 17 of 22 from gallery of The Courtyard House / AR43 Architects. Plan

Guerin Glass Architects is an evolving practice with expertise in Architecture, Interior Design and Planning with offices in Brooklyn, NY and Honolulu, HI.

designed by natura futura arquitectura over a single story, the central courtyard connects the indoor spaces with the external environment.

Architecture, Landscape Design, Visualization, Autodesk 3ds Max, Corona Renderer, Adobe Photoshop, AutoCAD

Completed in 2018 in Indonesia. Images by Tommaso Riva. Umah Hati (Tranquil Heart) is an understated and humble private villa, yet also is a subtly audacious hybrid, bridging the West and the East. It...

Charmaine Chan highlights five recently completed courtyard houses for her book Courtyard living: Contemporary houses of the Asia-Pacific.

With earthy tones, lush pocket gardens, and luminous skylights, this beachside home by Studio Context is an ode to the coastline.

The Water Courtyard House was conceived as a house in a garden in land-scarce Singapore, with greenery and garden forming the heart and backdrop for the house. The building folds itself around a water courtyard and at the same time terraces back with roof gardens, such that even the bedrooms above, always have a view of greenery and roof gardens.

Designed to respond to the context of El Paso’s formidable and diverse topographical personality, the Courtyard House is a place for family to gather and entertain. Sited next to the client’s existing home of cast-in-place concrete, this new addition was envisioned as an entertaining and living space. With the Franklin mountains as the backdrop and a suburban neighborhood as the immediate context, a large-scale addition was appropriate to the vast setting.