Contemporary Asian Pools and Gardens

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Chami Jotisalikorn. Contemporary Asian Pools and Gardens

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POOLS AND

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The pool plays an important part in our lives in tropical Asia-for relaxing, cooling, exercising, entertaining or as a reflective artistic feature of the house. Whether it is a large outdoor pool, indoor lap pool or a rooftop eyrie, unusual shapes and designs that reflect the geometry of the house are much in vogue. Examples include Valentina Audrito's pools in a Bali villa (pages 72 and 78) or the pools by Eco-id Architects in Singapore which form an integral part of a living room (pages 42 and 110) or the pools in a villa in Kanchanaburi in Thailand designed by Martin Palleros (pages 123-124) which merge seamlessly with the landscape. The serenity of the Tirtha wedding chapel in Bali (page 80) is much enhanced by its setting in a vast lake.

What makes a tropical garden intrinsically different from gardens anywhere else in the world is that with our climate we can spend more time in them all year round. As Karl Princic explains, "historically, tropical Asian houses have always been designed to take advantage of natural breezes and therefore the garden has always been an extension of the house." The advent of air-conditioning meant that for a time the garden was excluded from the house. Happily that is all changing. AI fresco dining is increasingly popular with open-plan kitchens and dining rooms becoming part of the garden or patio-a popular idea in Australia and New Zealand, and is now catching on in the rest of the region. With cantilevered roofs and sophisticated water-proof canopies that can be easily adjusted according to the vagaries of the weather, more people are embracing it.

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