Inner courtyards

Before you, a book fully dedicated to such a popular element of architecture as inner courtyards. Arriving during the early rebirth, the courtyards are firmly included in the architecture of European countries. The first domestic courtyards of Florence in the literal sense of the word were located inside the building, surrounded in safety for the thick walls of the house. The doors of the master bedrooms and office premises came here. In the courtyard, most of the life of the inhabitants of the house was held: here they had breakfast, dinner and dinner, they took guests here, they were going to the whole family with warm evenings. The courtyard and for household needs were widely used. And if the Days of Italian Renaissance were built in one scheme, then the diversity of modern courtyards amazing imagination. Today, the inner courtyards are both large, small, and rectangular, round, and raised, and below the level of the house, and completely cobbled, and drowning in greenery, and attached to the house, and in the depths of the garden. The main thing is that all of them unites - this is what the modern courtyard is considered a place of rest. From the city bustle, from stresses, from work, from people ... Each person has its own idea of ​​rest, which gives rise to fertile soil for the external diversity of the courtyards