small projects

gardenshade shed

clay brick, concrete
and laminated glass.

The site for the gardenshade
shed, being wedged against
an existing ficus covered wall,
suggested that the shed serve
the staid purposes of storage..
...with a view. To this end, only
three enclosing walls were built
in brick, with the last in safety
glass, as an extension of the
glass roof for the shed.

The idea was not merely for
sunlight drip into the shed, but
for the shed roof and glass wall
to serve as a gutter of sorts to
irrigate the ficus-grown wall it
found location against: a shed
with a view both in and out
and the means to sustain each
without gardening effort. In
time, fallen leaves replenish
the glass roof with shade, with
only sweeping to adjust the
lumens for activity and mottled
pools of sun on the shed floor.