The Garden
- comparing photographs of Western gardens and Japanese gardens, one notices that in many Western plans the garden is viewed from outside and the building placed against that background. Japanese gardens, on the other hand, are intended to be viewed from an interior space against the background of a wall or fence. This is because Japanese gardens are designed in concert with the room interiors, giving full consideration to sight lines from the rooms, the corridor, or a special viewing platform. This difference in perspective is indicative of the Japanese concept of the house. In fact, one of the words for family or home in Japanese, katei, is a juxtaposition of the characters for "house" and "garden," revealing that the concept of house and garden as a unified whole has existed for quite some time.
Plan of Japanese house and garden.
Cross section
The intermediate space is an important buffer zone be-tween the interior and exterior.
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