2011 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 200,000 times in 2011. If it were an exhibit at the Louvre Museum, it would take about 9 days for that many people to see…

The Art of Pergola Design (5)

Pergola’s I get a lot of questions about pergola’s, arbors and trellis’ . . . a lot. for good reason. Structure adds a lot to the designed landscape. With structure you bring order, refinement, extension of the house architecture, definition of space, etc. I would say these are good things Plus; if done well they…

Landscape Rendering to Fire Pit Construction

The Original Rendering: A few weeks back I posted about this drawing for a pergola design. The idea was to anchor a fire-pit seating area. This drawing was to give the client an idea on how an anchor structure would look/hold down/define the back side of the area. [ A simple rendering for fire pit.…

Rendering of Pergola-Details

Here are two images of details from the previous post. The top rendering is a detail of the right side-people included. The bottom drawing shows the left side of the plaza/pergola: [Simple people, and little detail on the plantings] [Showing brick on the columns, and the bench relationships] So what happened on this project. Well…

The Art of Pergola Design (4), and More

In the previous post several objectives were mentioned for the next drawing of the(I’ll call it) plaza/pergola area: This questioning and working through logistics led to me being asked if I could tweak this drawing some. Could I show it with brick columns? Could I show it with the overhead in white? Leading to what…

The Art of Pergola Design (3)

This is another pergola drawing for an area between 2 small apartment buildings. One unit holding 6 apartments, and the other 10. It was easy to see on the initial visit there was no place to gather. There needs to be a place where these students could spend some time together outside . . .…

The Art of Pergola Design (2)

These pics were taken a few days ago. I have been called back to this site because the homeowners wanted to add on a few more elements to the backyard [Looking from the hot tub area to the main gathering space.] This pergola is the one I discussed in the most visited post on the…

Pergola Drawing early Conceptual (3)

[This pergola rendering was shown to the client] He didn’t like it. Not even a little. This was shot down faster than Ann Coulter would have been at a moveon(dot)org party. However there is a ray of hope for that big flat space. Ruins, yep ruins . . . . working on that drawing as…

Pergola Drawing early Conceptual (2)

[This was 1st sketch for site] I drew this before yesterday’s posted drawing. I like to work really rough, really fast trying to get a feel for how elements would play out in the given space. By the way; a drawing like this is not something I am doing to show a client-this drawing style…