Designed by Mary Barensfeld Architecture in Berkeley, California, this outdoor living and entertaining area is also an accessible seating spot to the top of the site. These cozy place of retreat is also eco-friendly. Here is more information from the architects: “The garden traverses a steeply sloping site to provide access to an upper level patio with views of Sutro Tower and San Francisco. To avoid swallowing large swathes of the backyard square footage with a conventional stair, angular, board-form concrete walls with occasional steel armor slice their way up the hill while providing terraced planting areas. Visible and accessible to the existing townhouse living room, the lower level white granite patio unfurls its reflecting pool to greet visitors. Water-jet cut, patterned weathering steel screens serve as both bamboo planters and screening between the neighboring townhouses’ rear yards.”
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