Courtyard House where located in Mercer Island, Washington designed by Hutchison & Maul. Courtyard House Decks and patios are carved into the slope to facilitate pedestrian traffic to the site, ensuring natural light at the primary level of the house, and the privacy of neighboring properties. The house consists of two parts: a concrete, the spaces and less valuable, and a volume of driftwood, which contains functions of sleep and family bathroom. The resulting distance between wood and concrete houses sandwiched main salon jack, with large areas of glass offer views over the open house on the lake side connected.
For access the house through a series of terraces and stairs excavations, wells and bridges, then the other leaders finally reached a small glass terrace in the center of the residence. This input sequence to form said timber and its location and configuration of the retaining walls of concrete. strengthen horizontal wood paneling assembled members alternate depth, the concepts of texture, shadow and perspective, the contrast with the smooth concrete walls, location and finally the distance from the entrance of the center home.
