House Controlling Lines of Sight

A home that controls lines of sight skillfully arranges windows, walls, plantings, and layouts to carefully curate the scenery you want to see and the areas you don't. By blocking views from roads and neighboring houses while allowing lines of sight to extend toward the garden, sky, or distant scenery, you can balance openness with privacy. Using interior courtyards, ground-level windows, high windows, or half-walls naturally guides the direction of vision while inviting light and breeze. In urban housing especially, designing windows to close off the outside while creating rich scenery inside is highly effective. We introduce visual-control homes that consider lines of sight to the very end, generating calmness and expansiveness.

View House Controlling Lines of Sight columns.

Broaden your approach to architecture through homebuilding tips, Q&As, pros and cons, and floor plan insights.