Japanese Garden

What makes a Japanese garden?

Our design proposal occupied a small courtyard space between house and car port, separate from the main garden. This become a vignette of its own to be enjoyed in passing, with the option of pausing on a bench or stone to enjoy the water.

Starting with traditional ideas such as the miniaturisation of landscape, we focussed on half views, layers & ‘elevating the ordinary’. We explored textural contrast between gravels, rough stones and diamond sawn paths. The planting is lush and ‘leafy’, the water pulls in the sky and is in conversation with the perforated screen it aligns with.