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Concept study \/ Architecture & interiors<\/p>

A courtyard, not a corridor.<\/h2>

This imagined home asks how a family could share a generous living space without putting every room on display. The courtyard becomes a point of orientation: open to the sky, sheltered at its edges and visible from the rooms used most.<\/p><\/div>

01 \/ The brief<\/p>

Keep the view. Make room for privacy.<\/h2><\/div>

The fictional brief sets a house in a bright Mediterranean landscape. Long views are valuable, but so are shade and places to withdraw. Rather than opening every wall, the study concentrates shared life around a planted outdoor room and gives the quieter spaces more contained outlooks.<\/p>

Arrival follows a gradual sequence: a low boundary, a sheltered threshold and a first view into the courtyard. The home is revealed in stages. This is a spatial intention, not a tested or constructed plan.<\/p><\/div><\/div>

02 \/ Three decisions<\/p>

Give each choice a reason.<\/h2><\/div>
Design decision<\/th>Intended experience<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
Place the outdoor room at the centre<\/td>Give shared rooms a common reference while keeping their entrances distinct.<\/td><\/tr>
Make thresholds deep enough to inhabit<\/td>Imagine a sequence of sheltered pauses between inside and outside.<\/td><\/tr>
Repeat a restrained material palette<\/td>Use shadow, texture and planting to vary the experience without adding visual clutter.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure><\/div>
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Courtyard threshold \/ Original AI-generated concept study.<\/figcaption><\/figure>

03 \/ A closer view<\/p>

The threshold does the work.<\/h2><\/div>

The second concept view turns attention from the overall silhouette to the covered edge of the courtyard. Timber overhead, a deep opening and the planted centre suggest a place to move slowly through, rather than a passage used only to get somewhere else.<\/p>

Different image views explore the same mood and design questions; they are AI concept studies rather than a coordinated set of construction documents.<\/p><\/div><\/div>

What would need to be resolved next?<\/h3>

A real project would need site measurements and a coordinated plan, followed by checks of daylight, overheating, drainage, privacy, structure and access. The courtyard\u2019s appeal in an image is a starting question, not evidence that those requirements have been satisfied.<\/p>

Fictional, unbuilt study. The brief, location and dimensions are illustrative. All images are original AI-generated concepts, not photographs of commissioned work.<\/p><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A quiet world, open to the sky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":7,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_forma_location":"Paphos, Cyprus \/ concept","_forma_year":"2026 \/ concept","_forma_area":"240 m\u00b2 \/ proposed","_forma_materials":"Limestone \u00b7 timber \u00b7 planted shade","_forma_client":"","_forma_project_status":"","_forma_collaborators":"","_forma_photography":"","footnotes":""},"forma_project_type":[2],"class_list":["post-16","forma_project","type-forma_project","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","forma_project_type-residential"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themes.shop\/preview\/forma-free\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/forma_project\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themes.shop\/preview\/forma-free\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/forma_project"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themes.shop\/preview\/forma-free\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/forma_project"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/themes.shop\/preview\/forma-free\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/forma_project\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1253,"href":"https:\/\/themes.shop\/preview\/forma-free\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/forma_project\/16\/revisions\/1253"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themes.shop\/preview\/forma-free\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themes.shop\/preview\/forma-free\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"forma_project_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themes.shop\/preview\/forma-free\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/forma_project_type?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}