Front Yard and Street: The kind defined without a fence

A residential house without any fences or gates, with the front yard directly open to the street, yet the boundary remains clear: on the street side, there is a long stone bench only 450mm high, which can be sat on and simultaneously serves as a clear boundary; behind the stone bench, the ground material changes from the sidewalk paving to gravel, then to stone slabs leading to the entrance; the planting consists of a row of trees spaced 3 meters apart, their canopies already forming a continuous shade, but the view between the tree trunks is transparent. The house itself is set back 8 meters. Therefore, privacy is achieved through distance, elevation difference, and planting, rather than walls. Avoid: adding fences or low hedges, making the stone bench high enough to become a retaining wall, planting dense hedges, paving the front yard as a parking lot.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一棟住宅不設任何圍牆與大門,前院直接對街道開放,但界線仍然清楚:靠街的一側是一道高度只有 450mm 的長條石座,可以坐,同時是明確的邊界;石座後方地坪從人行道的鋪面換成碎石,再換成通往入口的石板;植栽是一排間距 3 公尺的喬木,樹冠已經連成一片提供遮蔭,但視線在樹幹之間是通透的。住宅本身退縮 8 公尺。因此私密性靠距離、高差與植栽,而不是靠牆。避免:加入圍牆或矮籬、石座做高變成擋牆、植栽種成密實的綠籬、前院鋪成停車場。