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The family decided to redesign their garden in July 2013 with the goal of making the garden usable. Before the redesign, a long and unused lawn dominated the entire garden and the family tended to spend more time at the edge of the garden than in it. This garden design in the Zurich Oberland is a successful example of extending the living room outside. The interior of the house and the existing, smaller terrace are dominated by a Nordic, Belgian-English style with appropriate decoration. This style was continued by PARC'S in the garden design.
Squiggle. The spatial division was solved with slight nesting, which at the same time looks very tidy. The planting frames the lawn on the left and right, giving the lines a soft touch.
Although the garden is designed in a very modern way, it does not appear cool, on the contrary: it has a warm and homely effect and is loosened up. The play with materials should be emphasized: from the paved surface in the front area, a small gravel path leads to the right behind the planting area to the garden house, which is interrupted by a clinker pavement. This material interruption helps to break up the large gravel area and also skilfully sets the scene for the water feature.
The materials create a harmonious, spatial division without fragmenting. The gravel path has a purely functional purpose and was therefore specially created behind the planting area. In addition, the garden experience becomes more varied when the passageway does not always lead across an open area. Depending on the incidence of light, the tall trees in the border cast an elegant play of shadows on the lawn and direct the view above them to the rear part of the garden.
The garden brings with it a long, narrow layout that formed an expressionless tube before the redesign. The garden offered no incentive to go to the end of the space. The large lawn area was no longer important to the clients, as their children are already older and the space is now no longer used purely as a play area.
Parc's created a lounge area at one end of the garden and a lounge area at the other, with a patch of lawn in between, creating an exciting interplay. A big request from the family was to incorporate the element of water. Parc's used the same water spout that had been in the garden a few years earlier, but with a new basin and more prominent staging.
Termination of the garden used to be an unused corner, where now stands a turquoise garden pavilion wrapped with hydrangeas. Behind the white existing garden house is the "kitchen corner" with herbs and column fruit. This met the desire to be able to use the garden also for the kitchen.
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PARC'S Garden Design Ltd.
Buechstrasse 38
8645 Rapperswil-Jona
T +41 55 224 30 33
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PARC'S Gartengestaltung is your planning specialist from Rapperswil-Jona for functional and aesthetic landscape architecture and environmental design. Our designs take up the central idea of the building architecture and harmonize interior and exterior space.
