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Contemporary Japanese Sunken Temple Garden in Saffron Walden Essex England
Contemporary Japanese Sunken Temple Garden in Saffron Walden Essex England
Saffron Walden, United Kingdom
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Contemporary Japanese Sunken Temple Garden in Saffron Walden Essex England
Saffron Walden, United Kingdom
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2014
SIZE
1000 sqft - 3000 sqft
BUDGET
$100K - 500K
Collaborating with the clients on a third project, following a 42nd-floor roof terrace at the Barbican’s Cromwell Tower and bespoke planters in their country home, we embarked on this Far Eastern adventure to create a modern Japanese garden in Essex. Having returned from Japan, adoring classical temple gardens, the clients yearned for a contemporary version of their own. With a 220 sqm secluded west-facing courtyard snug within their 5-hectare Essex country estate, the site was completely cleared for the new Nipponic Creation.
The flat site was graded to enable a sunken temple garden topography, with linear, generous, imposing solid basalt steps leading down into the lower terrain. A pentad of large granite rocks was handpicked at a quarry to create a traversing progression placed diagonally across the garden to delineate an allegorical familial hierarchy. The last small rock is situated on a hardwood deck, creating a bubble fountain cascading into a pool.
A new wall enclosure creates shelter and privacy on the east elevation, clad in black & grey granite. The stone continues into paving in similar detailing, edged by buff sandstone and green pebble edge detail. Floating decks are positioned perpendicularly to enable eye-level views while perching within the garden, adorned by Viteo Low seats. The decks are enveloped by the foliage of Bamboo & ferns which veil the design’s key focal points
An ultra-modern FueraDentro furniture set & loungers occupy the forecourt adjacent to the granite wall, crowned by a multi-stemmed, bee-friendly, sculptural, Flowering Cherry Tree. The base of the tree is mulched with stone artistry in quartz which complements the branches and the stone masonry throughout the site. The Cherry blossom petals flutter down onto surfaces appearing like dainty pink confetti. The local wildlife adores it.
Reclaimed Yorkstone slabs clad the top of the raised paths which transverse the sunken garden as walkways to the floating decks. 6 silver-grey granite chipping sizes cover the ground, raked traditionally by the client, ranging from 6mm to 30mm, punctuated by a stately Japanese Holly (Ilex crenata) in a cloud-form topiary. Clipped native Box hedges (Buxus sempervirens) create enclosures within the site, leading the eye towards the sculptural focal points of Cherry, Holly, Ginkgo & Japanese Maple.
Large tree specimens were utilised to provide instant impact, with 11 plant species throughout the gardens: Camellia, Magnolia, Photinia privacy espaliers, Ginkgo, Fern species, Japanese Maple, Japanese Holly, Box balls topiary & hedges, Bamboo, Flowering Cherry Tree & miniature Mondo grasses in narrow bands inside the deck. A predominantly evergreen plant palette, the flora offers both spring colour and autumn leaf colourings, automatically irrigated and opulently lit.
Photos: Marianne Majerus
The flat site was graded to enable a sunken temple garden topography, with linear, generous, imposing solid basalt steps leading down into the lower terrain. A pentad of large granite rocks was handpicked at a quarry to create a traversing progression placed diagonally across the garden to delineate an allegorical familial hierarchy. The last small rock is situated on a hardwood deck, creating a bubble fountain cascading into a pool.
A new wall enclosure creates shelter and privacy on the east elevation, clad in black & grey granite. The stone continues into paving in similar detailing, edged by buff sandstone and green pebble edge detail. Floating decks are positioned perpendicularly to enable eye-level views while perching within the garden, adorned by Viteo Low seats. The decks are enveloped by the foliage of Bamboo & ferns which veil the design’s key focal points
An ultra-modern FueraDentro furniture set & loungers occupy the forecourt adjacent to the granite wall, crowned by a multi-stemmed, bee-friendly, sculptural, Flowering Cherry Tree. The base of the tree is mulched with stone artistry in quartz which complements the branches and the stone masonry throughout the site. The Cherry blossom petals flutter down onto surfaces appearing like dainty pink confetti. The local wildlife adores it.
Reclaimed Yorkstone slabs clad the top of the raised paths which transverse the sunken garden as walkways to the floating decks. 6 silver-grey granite chipping sizes cover the ground, raked traditionally by the client, ranging from 6mm to 30mm, punctuated by a stately Japanese Holly (Ilex crenata) in a cloud-form topiary. Clipped native Box hedges (Buxus sempervirens) create enclosures within the site, leading the eye towards the sculptural focal points of Cherry, Holly, Ginkgo & Japanese Maple.
Large tree specimens were utilised to provide instant impact, with 11 plant species throughout the gardens: Camellia, Magnolia, Photinia privacy espaliers, Ginkgo, Fern species, Japanese Maple, Japanese Holly, Box balls topiary & hedges, Bamboo, Flowering Cherry Tree & miniature Mondo grasses in narrow bands inside the deck. A predominantly evergreen plant palette, the flora offers both spring colour and autumn leaf colourings, automatically irrigated and opulently lit.
Photos: Marianne Majerus
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