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While this effect does take a good deal of engineering, and most likely budget to attain, the proper integration of the built and natural environs is an incredible addition to your site allowing a view of your garden from your room, or even rooms extending over your body of water. Learn the basic components of Zen garden design and how you can create a dedicated space for quiet contemplation or meditation in your own backyard Zen garden. Creating the unobstructed view and treating the interaction of interior and exterior with reverence is paramount to the success of your project. A Zen garden is a minimalist dry landscape with natural elements of rock, gravel, sand, and wood usually with few plants and no water. Koi ponds using a minimalist design are not defined by size but by lines, materials, and colors. Photo Credit: LoneStarMike / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0.
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Install the raised koi pond under a tree or a pergola. The tranquil views of Koi fish feeding and swimming give an impression of a Zen garden. Build a water wall on one side of the pond. Many people will say “doesn’t that take the focus of the garden and place it on the building?â€Â This is a valid question, but you should think of it as any other ornament or structure you have on site. The Effect in itself is the expression of the desire for the architecture to melt into the surrounding landscape more seamlessly. This is done by retaining a view from within unobstructed by window ornament, furniture, curtains, railings, even plants. The Koi pond offers the feeling of the Zen garden, with all the stones and paths that lead out. This is why many meditation places and landscapes have. The picture shown here is from a public Japanese garden (not a Niwa Design Studio) illustrates this effect. Having a waterfall can make your average koi type of pond look, feel, and sound like a zen garden. Izumi-dono, as it exists today primarily described the act of extending the corner, or portion of a building or deck over a body of water, whether it be a lake, a pond, or even a small stream, and resting it on a unobtrusive pier designed to interact with the buildings foundation holding it aloft. The effect developed as long piers built for fishing and relaxing and located predominately on the estates of wealthy members of society.
If you have the desire to incorporate the architecture on your site into your garden, or if you simply have a wish to add an air of grace to structures in your garden, you will probably find this technique to be of help.
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