With thousands of years of tradition as inspiration, contemporary architects are now realizing courtyard living afresh.
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Courtyards have long played an important function in residential design, regulating light, shade, and the use of space. With thousands of years of tradition as inspiration, contemporary architects are now realizing courtyard living afresh. As detailed in a book titled ?Courtyard living: Contemporary houses of the Asia-Pacific? by the esteem Charmain Chan, here are five immaculate state-of-the-art concepts.
Courtyard Living: Contemporary Houses of The Asia-Pacific? By Charmain Chan

Taken from a chapter dubbed ?The young, the old, and the in-between?, the Singapore Cornwall Gardens by Chang Yong Ter of Chang Architects, is home to four generations ? utilizing an abundance of greenery and water to create a miniature tropical paradise. Interconnected by a central rock-and-palm-fringed pool and a double-storey planter bridge, with all six bedrooms and communal areas facing the amenity, this house was expanded to form a U configuration from its original L-shape ? in an effort to connect the young and old both symbolically and physically.

Utilizing ramps to choreograph a route around the central courtyard, every floor of the AW House by Andra Matin in Jakarta, Indonesia, feels like the first. With the illusion of a paddy field maintained by lemongrass i...