Being with living things.

The garden is designed to be rooted in the community.

 

It is a family house where five people and a number of diverse creatures live in a nature-rich landscape with a river running through the town.

The outside garden is planned to be surrounded by plants that allow the visitors to feel the nature of Minoh and also to be visited by butterflies, birds, geckos and other creatures that fly around.

Due to the layout of the house on the site, four small gardens have been created, which are scattered around the house and nestle against the geese-like wall surface.

Like a patchwork of greenery, each one creates a different landscape.

Depending on where and when you look at them, the small gardens create many different scenes.

In addition to the planting around the area

The stones laid out around the entrance are exclusively from the mountains of Minoh and incorporate local ‘colours’ such as red and brown, which are unique to the area, to achieve a sense of unity with the plantings.

In the summer, the client and the design team

They actually visited the field.

I was impressed by the opportunity we had to choose together, looking at the branches and sizes of the azaleas around the entrance, the magnificent konara oak where we could watch the beetles, and the katsura tree, which is a memory of the wife's.

The landscapers were also very attentive, and there were many things that we learnt because we were on site, such as seeing a stand of Japanese cypress that we had never seen before, and making support poles for the tall trees out of salsbury.

The moments when I look at the items actually purchased on site and think about how to create space while looking at their characteristics and branching were very enjoyable and very similar to the time I spent practising flower arranging, which I have been learning for the past year.

It was a great experience for me to think about the extent to which we can propose pure richness but not be a burden to the clients, who will leave the garden in our hands and live with it over and over again in the days to come.

It was a very big experience for me this time.

As I gradually work with the public in the future, I would like to look for hints that can enrich both nature and people, while keeping an eye on the balance between the ideal and the reality of the future, when it leaves our hands.

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