Screened porch

While screen porches are often attached to houses, they are sometimes built separately in order to simplify the construction process.

In order to ensure that the porch be impervious to insects and other intrusions, a screen door is typically added to facilitate entry.

For example, when the loss of electricity prevents air conditioning systems from working, a screened porch may be a cooler sleeping location.

Some people experience a sense of intimacy and quiet privacy when spending their leisure hours on a screened porch.

[4] In the field of landscape architecture, a screened porch may even be used to divide surrounding gardens or lawns into smaller zones; at the Walter Gropius House in the northeastern United States, the screened porch serves as a transitional zone between a normal room of the house and a normal outdoors area, and its extended roof supports help to create the appearance of a frame around the surrounding terrain, dividing the land into multiple zones comparable to the rooms of a house.