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

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

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

Image 23 of 30 from gallery of The Urban Courtyard Home / Sudaiva Studio. Plan - Ground floor

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.

This house was designed around a courtyard to maximise the Northerly aspect into as many rooms as possible with the added benefit of creating a central "outdoor room". Doing this meant that the house could be built in stages avoiding the "temporary shed which inevitably gets converted to the house" syndrome! Each stage is linked…

CLB Architects has blended Japanese and Californian architecture styles for this house in Jackson, Wyoming, which is broken up by a trio of courtyards.

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

Designed by T.K. Chu Design Group, the four-story villa named Greencore is located among hills, woods, and lakes. With angled cornices and floor-to-ceiling windows, it shows an integration of traditional Chinese garden and modern building, which combines people, nature, and architecture perfectly, and gives off a vague animist aura.