The typical person may see a garden as a planned space to provide comfort and fresh air. An escape from the daily routine where one can relax and reflect. Gardens are essentially a sample of nature in our own backyard where we can control and manipulate to our satisfaction.
I see a garden as a place where i can escape from everyday routine, a place where i can clear my mind, breathe the fresh natural air. I see it as a calm and peacefull environment.
If this is what i see as a garden, then the typical plants and veg patch is not necessarily the only way of creating a garden.
I see water as the most peacefull form of nature. The gentle flow of water against a breeze and the cool wet touch associated with it. The tranquility of water can create a very calm environment and provide constant self reflection.
Moving from the typical garden to the more expressed gentle feel of water as a garden architecture can embrace its peacefull nature.
Perhaps we can see water not only as the garden and retreat but maybe the water can almost become the architecture itself. Not in the materialistic way but looking at the way water flows and sits, reflects and absorbs, maybe the form of the building can be expressed as a transition from the 'water garden' to the building itself.
