Interior courtyards filled with indoor trees and greenery create a tranquil, peaceful atmosphere. For our latest lookbook, we've collected ten homes from the Dezeen archive with beautiful courtyards at the heart of the interior.
Interior courtyards are mostly found in homes in warmer climates, where they help create a connection to the outdoors while bringing more light and air inside.
Adding trees and green plants to the courtyards make for decorative spaces that also function as sheltered miniature gardens.
The homes in this lookbook are spread out across the globe, from Israel to Japan and Mexico, but all feature soothing courtyard rooms filled with plants.
This is the latest roundup in our Dezeen Lookbooks series providing visual inspiration for the home. Previous lookbooks feature modernist living rooms, original hotel bathrooms and spacious kitchen extensions.
Courtyard House, US, by No Architecture
This home in the Willamette Valley wine country in Oregon was designed around a glazed garden filled with native deciduous trees.
As well as being decorative, the courtyard helps with the heating and cooling of the house by increasing passive solar heating in the winter and stimulating passive cooling and natural ventilation in the summer.
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Photography is by Dane Alonso and Mariano Renteria Garnica
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