2011 in review
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Category Archives: pergola
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Pergola Drawing early Conceptual
[This early conceptual is on trace over another conceptual with photo below] A quick pencil study of a pergola this view is looking into the end. The goal here was […]
Walkway Pergola
This pergola was designed to guide visitors down a small, simple, straight walkway around to a small hidden seating area, and utility space. It was important that the pergola create […]
The Art of Pergola Design
Entertainment Entry This pergola was designed with several thoughts in mind, several request asked, and the pergola needed to be substantial. I had looked at the style and size of […]
The Garden “above” the Hot Tub
posted, 09/28/06 The Garden Entry This concept drawing was to give the homeowner an idea concerning the changes to the upper terrace. Turn the space into a perennial and cutting […]
Hot Tub . . . where does it go? (2)
posted, 09/27/06 Looking from the Other Direction This drawing was done to show the homeowners how this would look from the other direction. This view shows the relationship between the […]
Concept sketch; Pergola, Waterfall, and Stream
posted, 09/00/06 Never Built This was a fairly quick rendering that I have pulled out of my archives. Its dated Fall, 2002. The drawing show the possibility of a gazebo […]
