rain curtain

#24: Rain Curtain
This is one of those cases where, from a design perspective, I said just about everything I wanted to say about rain-curtain effects in the video linked below. They look great, they sound even better and my clients love them.  So what else is there to consider?  Well,
Bobé Water & Fire Features Offer Rain Fall Systems
Bobé Water & Fire Features (Phoenix, AZ) manufactures Rain Fall, a waterfeature that captures the…
Falling Arches
For me, hitting the high notes in watershaping and landscape design is a product of careful observation, boundless imagination and detailed visualization.  These factors drive the design process, after which I transition into the more practical phases of the project with reliable engineering and quality construction. The early, creative phases can definitely be tricky, because they require many of my clients to take great leaps of faith, especially when what they're after is a highly customized environment - something truly unique. In those cases, we know that we at Artisan Home Resorts (San Jose, Calif.) are asking clients to visualize something nobody's ever seen before:  No matter how well we represent our ideas on paper or on a computer screen, the outcome will, to a certain degree, remain an abstraction until the everything is finished and working.   When everything finally comes together (as we believe it did in the project illustrated in this feature), a vision is realized and the payoff can be extremely rewarding, both for the clients and for those of us who worked hard to see the process through.  Here as in few other projects we've done, however, even we weren't precisely sure how
Falling Arches
For me, hitting the high notes in watershaping and landscape design is a product of careful observation, boundless imagination and detailed visualization.  These factors drive the design process, after which I transition into the more practical phases of the project with reliable engineering and quality construction. The early, creative phases can definitely be tricky, because they require many of my clients to take great leaps of faith, especially when what they're after is a highly customized environment - something truly unique. In those cases, we know that we at Artisan Home Resorts (San Jose, Calif.) are asking clients to visualize something nobody's ever seen before:  No matter how well we represent our ideas on paper or on a computer screen, the outcome will, to a certain degree, remain an abstraction until the everything is finished and working.   When everything finally comes together (as we believe it did in the project illustrated in this feature), a vision is realized and the payoff can be extremely rewarding, both for the clients and for those of us who worked hard to see the process through.  Here as in few other projects we've done, however, even we weren't precisely sure how