| Arch. Frau Mario |
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Piazza Stazione 2, Fino Mornasco, Como (IT) |
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| Japanese garden |
Villa Guardia,CO - www.frau1808.com |
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| Every so often, the project of a garden is a defiance of the traditional idea of garden, and this is what happens in this situation… . The visitor is surprised when takes a stone path that arrives in a flower-bed with black gravel, in which there’s a bowl of stone with a ladle of bamboo. The bowl, tsukubai, is used by the guests to wash one’s hands and to rinse one’s mouth as a symbolic purification; the bowl is lower to make the guests bend as a sign of humility. The garden is connected to the building by the ritual way that is symbol of arrival in a special place. It’s obvious that the designer wanted to consider the garden, with a careful placing of trees and shrub that some of them are trimmed and drawn (Ilex Crenata Macrobonsai), as a natural space in which the trees and the stones, that are surrounded by a surface of white stones, are the symbol of purity of spirit. |
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