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Much
of Azul-Verde's work includes hillside properties or land that
has numerous gradient changes. And, of course, clients want
things flat: They want a level house, they want a flat back
yard. Meanwhile, they are dealing the properties that have 8-20%
grade changes. At odds are the desires of the customer and the
requirements of the site. Rockwell and his team are up to the
challenge.
"The more constraints you have, the more you have to be creative,"
says Rockwell. He goes on to say that this is when the process
"gets fun."
In many of its projects, the company has been challenged by
disappearing edge pools, or pools that serve as their own enclosures,
which need to be five feet above ground. So, the structure becomes
a pool with its back edge protruding five feet above ground.
Special engineering need to go into designing the shell of the
pool in terms of the steel structures, the floor keys, and the
concrete that is poured around the pool to ensure that interaction
and relationship between the pool and the retaining walls: all
these things make designing and building outdoor environments
trickier.
Most of Azul-Verde's customers want someone with more experience
and knowledge. No longer are customers satisfied with a simple
lawn and a patio. Custom designed water features, pools with
disappearing edges, retaining walls that blend into the landscape
and become part of the artistic statement, and structures with
hillside pools are all ways that outdoor living environments
have become more complicated and require more thought in the
design.
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