A Japanese-inspired garden composed around mass and void: the quiet tension between presence and absence, where every solid form is answered by the space around it.
The brief called for a garden built around the client's particular love of Japanese design — specifically the concepts of mass and void — carried through in every material and every gap between them.
The ask was for open, breathing space to sit alongside considered, solid form: nothing overworked, everything balanced.
Open areas of porcelain paving and artificial grass are balanced against the built form of a bespoke, fire-treated Japanese pergola, sculptural posts, and polished concrete boulders for seating, set into Japanese zen gravel with structural planting softening the edges. A contemporary stepping stone path encourages movement between zones, while naturalistic beds are defined by a clean Corten steel edge.
Water adds to the tranquil feel throughout, with a Corten steel water bowl and a Veneto water feature. The planting mixes Japanese Acers with a rugged Scottish landscape of heathers, grasses and ferns — tying the garden's Japanese inspiration back to its Scottish setting.
Considered, tranquil, textural — a garden built on the balance between mass and void.
