Water Flower Courtyard

KUMA & ELSA

It has been said about Frank Lloyd Wright’s projects that: “Before they were achieved, nobody noticed the beauty of the site. ” As his architecture revealed the natural beauty of its environment.

Water Flower Courtyard intends to draw out this very site-specific beauty at Mirman Courtyard. Let’s set up a spatial relationship to nature: a garden usually blooms from the ground, but we suggest raising the flowers.

As a result, two gardens, a water garden at our feet and a flower garden just above eye-level. Arriving at the courtyard, on the water at your feet, sky reflects and flower petals float; from first floor, through the windows and from walkways, views of flowers floating in the air.

The project enhances the verticality of the courtyard. Modules are laid out on a regular grid, creating a light space and suggesting places to play, walk and sit under the flowers at water level.

The potential of the courtyard is revealed by a pleasant sensory experience, and the beauty revealed, after all.

KUMA & ELSA is an international architecture and urbanism practice established in 2018, led by Shohei Kuma, a Japanese architect, and Elsa Escobedo, a French Spanish urban designer.

They collaborate on international projects from their bases in France and Japan. Kuma graduated in architecture from the Politecnico di Milano (Italy) and Kyushu University (Japan), and has worked for several years as a chief architect in the Tokyo based architecture office Mount Fuji Architects…

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