DOI Heft:
No. 198 (September, 1908)
DOI Artikel:Architectural gardening, [7]: After designs by C. E. Mallows, F. R. I. B. A., and F. L. Griggs
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20967#0316
A rchitectural Gardening.—VII.
to take their meals out of doors are either driven
to windy and exposed corners of the house, or to
the making of temporary provision in the shape
of unsightly tents or structural additions to the
house in the shape of unattractive verandahs
where, when in actual use, most of the people
who would use it are found outside, because of its
tightness in planning.
In spite of the English climate, and with all its
drawbacks, gardens are used a great deal for sitting
in, badly planned and arranged for that purpose as
they usually are. In a carefully planned and con-
structed loggia breakfast, at least, would be possible
in the open air during the greater part of the year,
and during summer months nearly all the family
meals could be taken there, to the great gain not
only of pleasure but of comfort and health.
The greatest care in the planning of such spaces
is necessary, however, not only in regard to their
size, position and aspect, but also as to their
relation to the domestic working of the house on
the one hand and to the garden on the other.
The plan on page 279
shows an endeavour to
illustrate one method of
accomplishing this. The
loggia in this scheme is
on the north-east side of
the dining-room, and is,
in fact, but an extension
of it in the garden. In
this way it can be made
to serve the double pur-
pose of a garden room
and as a convenient ad-
journing place for after
dinner, smoking and
coffee. It will be seen
that this space is planned
so as to be readily ac-
cessible to the kitchen
service and independent
of approach from the
dining-room. It has, as
touching its connection
with the garden, the
benefit of two pleasant
vistas, one looking down
the narrow paved path
between two hedges
shown in the sketch on
page 280, and the other
looking down the length
of the pergola. This
plan may serve to indicate some of the practical
and pictorial advantages of the open - air living-
rooms, and to show one way in which they can
be made interesting and attractive parts of the
general scheme.
Another, and quite a different plan, is shown
by the view on page 284, called “A Garden
Entrance.” Here the loggia takes a position on
the east side of the dining-room, and opens from
it between two bay windows, the southern one of
which is shown in the sketch. That portion of the
space next the house is recessed and protected,
whilst the other portion has the benefit of three
different vistas in the garden.
The drawing on page 281 represents the entrance
front of a north country house, as it would appear
from a small oval pool enclosed by yew hedges
round which the drive circles. The enclosing
hedge being open at either end does not interrupt
a view down the drive from the house, and at the
same time gives interest to what is otherwise so
often a dreary expanse of gravel.
PLAN OF HOUSE AND GARDEN
DESIGNED BY C. E. MALLOWS, F.R. I.B. A.
to take their meals out of doors are either driven
to windy and exposed corners of the house, or to
the making of temporary provision in the shape
of unsightly tents or structural additions to the
house in the shape of unattractive verandahs
where, when in actual use, most of the people
who would use it are found outside, because of its
tightness in planning.
In spite of the English climate, and with all its
drawbacks, gardens are used a great deal for sitting
in, badly planned and arranged for that purpose as
they usually are. In a carefully planned and con-
structed loggia breakfast, at least, would be possible
in the open air during the greater part of the year,
and during summer months nearly all the family
meals could be taken there, to the great gain not
only of pleasure but of comfort and health.
The greatest care in the planning of such spaces
is necessary, however, not only in regard to their
size, position and aspect, but also as to their
relation to the domestic working of the house on
the one hand and to the garden on the other.
The plan on page 279
shows an endeavour to
illustrate one method of
accomplishing this. The
loggia in this scheme is
on the north-east side of
the dining-room, and is,
in fact, but an extension
of it in the garden. In
this way it can be made
to serve the double pur-
pose of a garden room
and as a convenient ad-
journing place for after
dinner, smoking and
coffee. It will be seen
that this space is planned
so as to be readily ac-
cessible to the kitchen
service and independent
of approach from the
dining-room. It has, as
touching its connection
with the garden, the
benefit of two pleasant
vistas, one looking down
the narrow paved path
between two hedges
shown in the sketch on
page 280, and the other
looking down the length
of the pergola. This
plan may serve to indicate some of the practical
and pictorial advantages of the open - air living-
rooms, and to show one way in which they can
be made interesting and attractive parts of the
general scheme.
Another, and quite a different plan, is shown
by the view on page 284, called “A Garden
Entrance.” Here the loggia takes a position on
the east side of the dining-room, and opens from
it between two bay windows, the southern one of
which is shown in the sketch. That portion of the
space next the house is recessed and protected,
whilst the other portion has the benefit of three
different vistas in the garden.
The drawing on page 281 represents the entrance
front of a north country house, as it would appear
from a small oval pool enclosed by yew hedges
round which the drive circles. The enclosing
hedge being open at either end does not interrupt
a view down the drive from the house, and at the
same time gives interest to what is otherwise so
often a dreary expanse of gravel.
PLAN OF HOUSE AND GARDEN
DESIGNED BY C. E. MALLOWS, F.R. I.B. A.