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Project: Redesign the entrance and interior court yard for an apartment complex. Improve the look and functionality of the courtyard in a small apartment building in California.

Current Condition: The building has un-attractive entry ways and courtyard. The large courtyard has a FILLED IN swimming pool. Pool has been encircled with a low wall to hold in dirt for a garden. Courtyard gets hot during the summer. There are 3 palm trees that provide little shade. Tenants have no place to store personal items or socialize outdoors.

Goals: 1) Make the courtyard and entry way more attractive and architecturally appealing. 2) Create more usable space for the tenants for storage. 3) provide usable outside area for a common barbeque, tables and shade. 4) Provide storage for bicycles.

Ideas: Take out pool garden, cement over old pool put in other shade?

Limitations: The building and stairwells cannot be changed but everything else can be changed. It would be good to save the palm trees, but the palm trees can be removed or cut down if the redesign demands it. The apartment complex use to have a pool, a low wall was constructed around where the pool use to be to hold a garden. This did not turn out to be attractive and is a waste of space.