Spanish Regions · Southern Courtyards: Water, Potted Plants, and Arcades

An Andalusian residential courtyard. The square courtyard is surrounded by two-story cloisters. The ground floor features white-washed semi-circular arches supported by slender stone columns, while the second floor has dark wooden railings. The ground is paved with geometric patterns made of small pebbles, and in the center is a low stone-built pond with a calm surface. The lower part of the walls is covered with 1.2-meter-high blue and white hand-painted glazed tiles, and the upper part is white-washed; the entire wall is hung with blue terracotta pots. An orange tree stands in the corner. Light falls from the square sky above, with half of the courtyard in shadow.
Avoid: making the courtyard an open front yard, using modern paving and large-sized tiles, having walls without potted plants, making the pond a decorative water feature.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一座安達魯西亞的住宅中庭。方形的院子四周是兩層的迴廊,一樓是白灰的半圓拱由細石柱撐起,二樓是深色木欄杆;地面鋪著小塊卵石拼成的幾何圖案,中央一口低矮的石砌水池,水面平靜。牆面下段貼著一米二高的藍白手繪釉磚,上段刷白;整面牆掛滿藍色赤陶盆。角落一棵橘子樹。光從上方的方形天空落下,一半的院子在陰影裡。避免:把中庭做成開放前院、使用現代鋪面與大尺寸磁磚、讓牆面沒有盆栽、把水池做成造型水景。