Atrium: The Center of the House is the Sky

A square courtyard surrounded by rooms on four sides. The ground is paved with geometric patterns of colored marble, with a shallow octagonal fountain in the center, its water surface only one step above the ground; citrus trees and jasmine are planted in the corners, and grapevines climb over one corner. The four facades are all different, two stories high. Avoid: making the courtyard with symmetrical, repetitive facades, making the pool a deep swimming pool, paving the ground with plain flagstones, adding a canopy in the center of the courtyard to block the sky.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一個被四面房間圍住的方形中庭。地面是彩色大理石拼成的幾何圖案,中央是一座淺的八角噴泉,水面只高出地面一階;角落種著柑橘樹與茉莉,葡萄藤爬過一角。四面的立面各不相同,高度兩層。避免:把中庭做成對稱重複的四面立面、水池做成深的游泳池、地面鋪成素色石板、在中庭中央加設頂棚遮住天空。