### Problem
>A garden is the place for lying in the grass, swinging, croquet, growing flowers, throwing a ball for the dog. But there is another way of being outdoors: and its needs are not met by the garden at all.

### Solution
>Build a place outdoors which has so much enclosure round it, that it takes on the feeling of a room, even though it is open to the sky. To do this, define it at the corners with columns, perhaps roof it partially with a trellis or a sliding canvas roof, and create “walls” around it, with fences, sitting walls, screens, hedges, or the exterior walls of the building itself.

### Related Patterns
... every building has rooms where people stay and live and talk together - [[Common Areas at the Heart (129)]], [[Farmhouse Kitchen (139)]], [[Sequence of Sitting Spaces (142)]]. Whenever possible, these rooms need to be embellished by a further "room" outdoors. This kind of outdoor room also helps to form a part of any [[Public Outdoor Room (69)]], [[Half-Hidden Garden (111)]], [[Private Terrace on the Street (140)]], or [[Sunny Place (161)]].

This outdoor room is formed, most often, by free standing columns - [[Column Place (226)]], walls - [[Garden Wall (173)]], low [[Sitting Wall (243)]], perhaps a trellis overhead - [[Trellised Walk (174)]], or a translucent canvas awning - [[Canvas Roofs (244)]], and a ground surface which helps to provide [[Connection to the Earth (168)]]. Like any other room, for its construction start with [[The Shape of Indoor Space (191)]] and [[Structure Follows Social Spaces (205)]] ...

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> [!cite]- Alexander, Christopher. _A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction_. Oxford University Press, 1977, p. 764.
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