Under the Arcade: The Transition Between Indoors and Courtyard

A covered corridor surrounding a courtyard. One side has continuous arches opening to the courtyard, the other side has interior white walls and dark wooden doors. The floor is terracotta tiles, at the same height as the courtyard with no steps. Dark wooden rafters are visible on the ceiling. The corridor is about two meters wide, with a long wooden bench and a few terracotta pots placed against the wall. In the morning, it is shaded, and in the afternoon, sunlight streams in diagonally, casting long arched light patterns on the ground.
Avoid: Enclosing the corridor with glass, making the corridor too narrow to place furniture, using a different floor height than the interior, adding screens and doors to the arches.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一段圍繞庭院的有頂走廊。一側是連續的拱洞開向庭院,另一側是室內的白牆與深色木門。地面是赤陶磚,與庭院同高沒有台階。天花可以看到深色的木椽。走廊的寬度約兩米,靠牆放著一張長木凳與幾個陶盆。上午這裡是陰影,下午陽光斜射進來在地面拉出長長的拱形光斑。避免:把走廊封上玻璃、讓走廊過窄無法放置家具、使用與室內不同高度的地坪、在拱洞加裝紗窗與門扇。