Pergola and Vines: Living Shade

A semi-outdoor space shaded by plants. The wooden pergola is composed of several thick, dark wooden posts and beams, with loosely arranged thin wooden strips on top. Grapevines or bougainvillea climb all over it, their leaves filtering the sunlight into fine, dappled light spots on the ground. Under the pergola is a terracotta paving and a long table. Because it is shaded by plants, it is dense in summer and deciduous in winter, allowing light through, so the degree of shading changes with the seasons. Avoid: using metal and plastic shading structures, making the pergola a dense and opaque roof, using fake plastic vines, adding sunshade cloth and tarpaulins to the pergola.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一處以植物遮蔭的半戶外空間。木構的棚架由幾根粗大的深色木柱與橫樑構成,上方架著疏鬆排列的細木條,葡萄藤或九重葛爬滿其上,葉子把陽光濾成細碎的光斑落在地面。棚架下是赤陶鋪面與一張長桌。因為是植物遮蔭,夏天茂密、冬天落葉透光,遮蔽的程度隨季節改變。避免:使用金屬與塑膠的遮陽構造、把棚架做成密實不透光的屋頂、使用假的塑膠藤蔓、在棚架上加裝遮陽布與帆布。