Case Study: Backyard Arbor Living Room Design Project In Houston, Tx --

Case Study: Backyard Arbor Living Room Design Project In Houston, Tx --

An arbor can be a simple structure for sitting underneath trees, or it can be a pinnacle of outdoor landscape design. Some arbors are simply vantage points beneath large trees from which homeowners can quietly take in a view of the surrounding Houston landscape. Others, however, are true monuments of architecture, taking on the proportion of outdoor living rooms and rising to positions of preeminence in the nighttime sky. The wood and glass arbor constructed for the Friedman family of Houston was just such a structure. This arbor was built in the form of a formal, outdoor luxury living room. It was constructed at the end of a long, three-level sandstone patio. Its axial location in relationship to the pool made it the second most significant structure on the landscape, and the terminus of the pool and hardscape design.