The following plants, characterized by the features mentioned above for the minimalist garden you:

Bambu Buda Belly (Bambusa tuldoides ‘Ventricosa’)

Stems grooved shape such as the stomach, so named after the stomach. Often used as a main crop (main crop) by accentuating the curve of the trunk. Bamboo from China reached a height of 17 meters. When grown in nutrient-poor conditions, then the distance is shortened and the stem will antarbuku grooved.

Mimosa Silver (Acacia podalyriifolia)

Originally from Malaysia and other countries in Asia. Widely grown in Australia, so the name is generally the Queensland Silver Wattle. In Indonesia because interest rates are intended to be a princess like shy mimosa (Mimosa pudical), often planted as a screen wall and softener. Leaves white (silver), grown throughout the year, and ibiakkan with grafts or seed.

Tabebuia (Tabebuia aurea)

Bignoniaceae family up to 7 meters high. Yellow flowers in unison, during the flowering season of transition. Tabebuia slow growth, but the strong trunk. Therefore, the plant is suitable for the minimalist garden need not require much maintenance (pruning). Can be planted with the graft.

In addition to the above ingredients, you can also decorate a minimalist garden with shrubs and bushes. This plant can be used as a filler plant or garden border. Here are a kind suitable for the minimalist garden:

Carrubean Copper Plant (Euphorbia cotinifolia)

It is often assumed to be a tree because of the high level reached 3 meters. Meanwhile, botanists classify them as high-bush because the stems are not woody. This plant is one species of the genus Euphorbia with red gummy leaves and milk.

Siklok (Agave attenuata)
Members of the family has 166 species of Agaveceae. Attenuata including one type that is often used for garden plants. Slightly oval-shaped leaves with a strong base of the stem and whitish green, prickly edges do not leave. This plant is heat resistant and dry.

Iris (Iris pseudacorus)

Yellow flowers with a ribbon-shaped green leaves. Iridaceae family is from Europe and Asia. Grows in moist soil and can not stand dry. Can serve as a barrier or minimalist garden filler. There also are planted in pots.

Nanas Hias (Ananas comosus)

Nanasan pineapple family (Bromeliaceae) is a single species with a pineapple fruit, but a different variant. Pineapple decor pineapple, but small in size. Hold the hot and dry, usually grown as an accent coupled with hard materials such as stone or cement.

Melati Air (Echinodorus phalaefolius)

Family Alismataceae, white flowers such as jasmine, arranged in long flower stalks. Leaf width, surface rough. Not only grows in ponds, water jasmine is often grown in pots. To plant it, pot holes so that the media between the wet and muddy.

Dracena tricolor

Picture is the same as the Song of Jamaica, leaving only a more tapered shape. Each strand consists of three colors, ie brown, red and green. Tricolor used for key crops on the edge of the garden gate. Sometimes combined with the green Dracaena.

Bawang Brojol (Zephyranthes grandiflora)

Known as “Rain Lily”, if such a simultaneous flowering rain lily. Shaped like a lily, though small. Cultured with tubers, flowering throughout the year with special treatment and direct sunlight and dry enyukai. Sources Kompas.com

The presence of certain plants to protect us from ultraviolet rays, heat and dust pollution and dirty air. The effect is clearly more obvious when you put the plants can absorb pollutants. Families become protected, healthier and more comfortable at home. View house can become a unique garden accent wall.

Today, many developed wall garden design. This term also varies. Green façade, green wall, vertical garden, a wall of life and topiade are some terms and developments. Not only in the normal wall, wall sculpture garden can be coated or building functions as a second skin to reduce solar radiation. Plants that are used to form a border of plants and shrubs are arranged in each plantation box / pot vertically.

Preparation can be done on a shelf or rack structure. Shelves can be made from wood, bamboo or metal. materials Choose pots / plantation like a plastic light box. Choose a lightweight planting media and also saves water because it will protect your family from the sun.

Steps to create a garden wall:

1. Determine the dimensions of the walls of plant you want to create. Select the area that the sun a lot / to handle the pollution to optimally protect the family. Rack is still in the soil so that water can excessive watering immediately fell to the ground, to give a density of rocks neatly at the bottom. If not, the plan is to trench the ground. Shelf metal materials can be durable or environmentally friendly bamboo.
2. If the wall is quite high and difficult to watered every day, preparing for the installation of sprinkler pipe / capillary tube or pipe / hose is used to hide.
3. Plan rack size module that will be created. Usually, border plants / 20×20 cm 30×60 cm for standard-sized short shrubs. Select the appropriate plant and pot / planter boxes. Growing media can be selected so as not to burden the shelves lightweight and easy maintenance, such as gel, coconut bark, stems, ferns, seaweed, charcoal and rice husk.
4. Choose pots / boxes made of plastic such as plantation of light. Feel free to experiment with different colors and textures to display a unique pot. Customize your colors with shelves and walls around.
5. In the market started to grow back wall of many outstanding parks that allow plants to grow horizontally, thereby creating a closed wall filled with plants. The selected plants may not distribute / hang so you can make more free.

Whether it is a spectacular waterfall or a quiet pond, water works in the garden every magical, providing a regional focal point and soothing the soul. Air movement provides pleasant background music and masks traffic noise. Soothing sound of water can mask the noise, making even the urban patio quiet retirement.

Lighting

Patio lighting can provide the drama in your garden. This not only allows you to spend more time outdoors at night, but also provide beautiful lighting of the best parts of your garden. Patio lighting can really create wonderful effects and make the experience more enjoyable your evening patio. Equally important, patio lighting can make a garden terrace and a safe place for the night.

Lights can be placed in the following areas, select from among today’s popular:

* Deck Lighting – lighting your deck can be an excellent tool to highlight and enforce the change in altitude, the drop-off, or edge of the deck. Doing so will not only make dramatic effects, but also safer bridges. You can hide the light under the protection, under the bleachers, or on vertical posts.

* Stage (Step) Lighting – This type of lighting patio allows you and visitors to navigate to your page through your steps and in security. Places are not under lighting, writing vertically, or along the steps.

* Lighting Fountain – Fountain on the terrace can still decorate your garden, even at night, thanks to modern lighting ideas. There are many types of large porch lights that make your fountain even more beautiful at night. You may be under the lights really give a dramatic appeal to your fountain. You can also consider colored lights for fun anymore. It is also possible to create a mirror effect on the water if you turn the area behind the reflecting surface of the water.

* Shadow Lighting – Use this technique highlights the interesting shapes and you may have in your garden, including tree structures, statues, etc. Place the lamp in front of the factory or the point you want shade, and goals that will cause the surface like a wall of pictures of your home. More light is on the items you want to shadow, the shadow will be terminated.

Silhouette Lighting * – Silhouetting is the kind of porch lights really emphasized that the shape of the object. To create a silhouette effect, put a light behind the subject, and shine to the vertical surface, such as the walls of your home.

These are only some types of lighting that you choose the terrace came, however, to determine the type of use at home, thinking about the specific issues you wish to highlight. Think about the topics that will look better as a silhouette or shadow. Furthermore, consider also areas that need to be enlightened.

Without the clever arrangement of stone and other components hardscape, the most artistic landscape is not a framework for disable plants tastefully and beautifully. When designing your garden, always start by permanent structures. Let the physical area and its surroundings dictate the form and shape of your design.

The wooden structures can be used in the garden to provide support for the plant material and define the elements of “outdoor rooms,” the truss becomes a wall, tree a door, a pergola roof – a gazebo combine all these. The design of these features should take into account the weight of loads probable plants, natural forces of wind, humidity and the sun and properties of the wood itself. Including wooden structures in the landscape offers us the opportunity to recycle materials “nature garden” to ours.

Hardscape materials are as varied as your imagination. But for weight construction, you are safer with proven materials such as stone, wood, cement, etc.. Most people like the shade patios and structures. But even these can be built with creativity, train them to the original design and choosing materials imagination. The cement can be colored, stamped or inlaid. Mosaics, paving stones, tiles, bricks, colored gravel, crushed glass, or a combination of materials can make flat surfaces turbulence with interest. Consider the addition of two structures use and beauty.-architectaria

]]> http://www.archintoo.com/landscape/landscape-elements-hardscapes/feed 0 http://www.archintoo.com/landscape/timber-flooring http://www.archintoo.com/landscape/timber-flooring#comments Thu, 15 Apr 2010 00:59:31 +0000 sadinarch http://www.archintoo.com/?p=541 Different Types of Timber Flooring:

1. Timber Blocks

These are usually made of a hardwood species laid on a screed of concrete. They are laid in a herringbone or brick bond and basket pattern. They require a dry and stable atmosphere. The blocks are jointed with tongue and grove edges and fixed with an adhesive.

2. Floor Boards

These make up part of the construction of some houses; timber tongue and groove floorboards are fixed with nails to the floor joists. With the increased use of concrete substrate floors, a timber floorboard finish can be achieved by fixing battens into a concrete screed. Uplifting carpet and finding timber floorboards is a great coup as sanded and polished they provide a simple form of redecoration.

3. Parquet

This is used mainly for high quality domestic projects. It is available in square panels that hold all the timber pieces together. It is fixed by gluing to the base substrate, which is required to be level and free of lumps. The style of parquet is usually three fingers of timber facing vertical with three adjacent facing horizontal and so on. They are available with a prefinished coated surface or raw and require a polyurethane coating finish.

4. Chipboard

This is made of chips of timber combined with urea formaldehyde resins bonded to form a board. It is fixed by nailing to timber joists. It is a cheap product with a moderate wear ability. Its surface looks like cork when it is sealed.

5. Plywood

Plywood is made up of thin layers or plies of timber that get bonded together. Layers are laid face to face but each adjacent layer the grain runs in the opposite direction, which provides strength to the board making it stiffer and stronger than solid timber of the same thickness. It has a moderate wear factor as a floor product. It is nailed or glued to timber floor joists. A finishing coat would be required to seal the floor and protect it from spills, damage and wear.

6. Hardboard

Hardboard is made from soft wood pulp and is a cheap product. Generally used as a base for other flooring. It can be painted and sealed but it is not very durable long term.

The existence of the corridor at the side of this modern style house become increasingly significant as the porch for relaxing. The architect, Robert Oswald, process the waste material from the project. Materials that are composed membentukteras which function as a reading and sitting room.

Terrace size 2.5 mx2, 5m was effective, visible from the view access to the living room, entrance gate, and a small pond beside the patio.

On the side of the terrace there 2mx0 sized pool, 5m. There are accents of three small concrete block 10cmx10cmx20cm in the pool, which serves as a space filler composition. Swimming is not too large it can add quality to become more comfortable space. Leisure Terrace is also inseparable from the role of iron pergola covered with vines Thumbergia type sp. Plants create a shady terrace. The flowers also provide white accents that enhance the visual space.

There are also plants the iris, which becomes limiting and sweetening the edge of the porch. Terrace forms a versatile boxes become more gentle with the presence of iris and rustic stone floors. Game stone pattern, between pedestrian and terrace, affects the formation of the impression space displacement; from the corridor to the terrace as a space “receiver”

In fact, during the hot summer, using a canopy (awning) to block the heat, you can create as many as 65% discount on your energy bill on windows facing south and as high as 77% on the windows to the east and west. Canopies are great protectors for trim around windows. Usually, when the sun shines on the wood, day after day with the rain, the wood can rot and warped. However, by using a canopy, the wood is protected.

A canopy will protect outdoor furniture on your terrace or deck, leave your windows during a mid-summer rain, reduce glare on computer screens and televisions, and best of all, they add a nice decorative touch to the aesthetics of home.

You’ll discover that awnings are usually made of fabric or aluminum. The awnings made from fabric do require a little more maintenance than an aluminum awning but also offer a better variety of color and shape. Aluminum awnings are low maintenance, sturdy, and provide a retro look.

The fun of whatever material awnings is that they both are designed to withstand high winds and heavy weather. Although a tornado or hurricane can be too much, you can be sure that most high winds will not damage the awning. In determining the size of the awning to buy, it’s really down to your personal preference. But you also want the amount of energy you need.

For example, if you add an awning on the windows to the east or west, if you want a drop from 65% to 75%. For going up awnings on south facing windows, you want the drop to be shorter, ranging from 45% to 60% coverage. Remember that window and door canopies are versatile in that they can be installed with or without side walls.

In addition Roll up and retractable awnings are an excellent choice in that they block out the sun during the hot summer months, but then the warm sun shine during the winter. The bigger the canopy, the more protection you will achieve and when you plan to install the awning on your patio or deck, the retractable model is most useful.(architectaria)

One way to overcome these problems is by designing and placing an open park in the building (inner courtyard), between the spaces which have no direct relationship with the area and the outside air. Park open dibagian placed center of the building will provide air and natural lighting for the room at the time of day.

The size of these parks do not need too big, just provide enough space, approximately 1 mx 1m, 1 mx 2 mx 2 m or 2 m. That must be considered is the park directly connected with the outside air, without cover, are not covered. If you are worried that occurs when rain falls tampias, use of fiber roof that passed the light, and provide a large cavity for air circulation.

Park in the house did not have to be filled by the plants / vegetation is too dense, the composition of the park could be dominated by rocks, Peebles, or can with a combination of water (ponds) and water plants (lotus, etc.). Spaces adjacent to the park is given the maximum exposure possible. Ventilation large, wide glass windows or sliding doors that create an opening towards the garden grew, so the intensity of light and circulation more smoothly towards the room.

If the design of your home building lot in the middle of the room that has no source of lighting and natural penghawaan, then you should add some open park spaces around them. The middle of the room so that the building was still a supply of fresh air and natural lighting during the day at a time when.(architectaria)

By making the park above the roof, storey buildings can still have a green open space, because there is space efficiency. Park above the roof (roof garden) is as an alternative reforestation to improve the quality of a large city environmental health. Currently, only a few five-star hotel in central Jakarta which has a garden on the roof (roof garden).

Making the park above the roof (roof garden) is not cheap and need structure and specific roof construction. Even for optimal results, the construction of the roof to the garden was designed from the beginning, before the building was built. However, this investment can come back in a few years later, because the cost of electricity for air conditioning is reduced, and increases the economic value of the building.

A private hospital in Singapore managed to reduce electricity consumption by 50 percent, after a garden above the roof (roof garden). Although the roof garden was just a tomato plant, which is placed in the pot to cover the entire roof. Another advantage, the hospital did not have to buy tomatoes again.

In addition to the shade, the park above the roof (roof garden) can also be used to absorb toxic gases. Eg bamboo or palm can absorb formaldehyde gas and gasoline. While plant daffodils, in addition to absorbing formaldehyde gas and gasoline, as well as alcohol and acetone to absorb the resulting paint and so on. Vines also serve to absorb the gas acetate, ammonia, and other gases. Because of this function, widely used vines to the garden on the roof (roof garden) in foreign countries such as Singapore and Japan.

How to Build Roof Above Park
Before making a rooftop garden, first consider the construction of the building roof. Is it designed to support medium load of soil and planting trees will be planted on it or not. Because the park above the roof (roof garden) should be supported roof structures and strong construction.

The existence of the park above the roof (roof garden) will lead to increased load. Piles of soil and plants will increase the dead load, wind load, and the additional burden of water on the roof of the building. The building must have a drainage system that works well.

If the type of shrubs to be planted, he will take the roof load increased by about 650 kg/m2. Plus live load according to activity on the roof garden. For example, 400 kg / m 2 for sports, 500 kg/m2 for the party and dance, as well as 250 kg / m 2 for restaurants.

To plant a large tree, the location of the floor plate to the structural columns that supported the concrete plates do not collapse. In addition, retaining walls need to be made the ground because the tree requires a sufficient thickness of soil, or make a hole in the roof of the building, under a tree.

Construction of a roof leak-prone, and should be equipped with drainage channels. Drainage layer such as gravel, sand, and pumice stone should be added to the water easily flows into the drain hole. Filter made of geo-textiles or fibers to function under the water to keep the grain land but not to clog the drain.

To prevent damage to water-resistant coating (water proof layer), barrier layers must be added to the plant roots do not damage the waterproof coating and the concrete underneath.

Because plants exposed above the roof of direct sunlight and the wind faster, watering should be done regularly. Spraying water that it needs to be done manually or automatically.

For the planting medium, the formula should be light but have the ability to provide nutrients and moisture. For example, by mixing sand with a layer of wood shavings added pine bark and manure. The depth of planting medium for the grass requires 20 to 30 centimeters, as well as cover crops. Meanwhile, shrubs and small trees require 60-105 inches deep. Large trees to a depth of almost 2 meters.(architectaria)

The house is located on the main street traffic is busy. Noise and dust become part of daily life inevitable anymore. But the conditions were not too tesebut felt when we entered this house area. Serenity and peace into the atmosphere instead.

Why, yes? Yard which borders the road is closed 180cm tall fence. This fence was open because wake of a series of metal shaped like a twig. But outside the fence on the side of tea-tree tehan (duranta) as high as 2m.

The tea-growing tehan was tight and flat cut from the outside and inside the fence. This is what makes the fence a “closed”. Even the existence of an iron fence not visible from the outside. Duranta precisely as an effective noise filter, but it’s also a good dust barrier.
Bagitulah, so we would not be surprised if the noise and dust much less when we are in this residential area. In addition, residents also get privacy because the atmosphere behind the fence not visible from the outside.

Side of the fence lined planted iris. High slices no more than 40cm. When compared with the high duranta reach 2m, composition interesting contrast. Mini elephant grass planted around the iris, the more complete the greens in the garden area.

Furthermore, layangkanlah point of view of the entire yard. There is a fish pond at the side entrance to the main door. Floor path to the main door is made from sheets of solid wood boards. On the other side of the pond, but the spread of miniature elephants, plants are also planted flowers.

In the middle of the park, the road is made of cement and sand combined with coral brushes. The flow path rectangular, with a variety of sizes. Therefore, the display platform so there’s no monotony.

One corner of the overgrown bushes, while the other side of the park is treated with a simple design. Alloy bushes with a clean design that really enrich the atmosphere of this park.(ideaonline)