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The landscaping opens into rolling lawns that lend the space a park-like calm
and a feeling of solitude beside the water. The effect is not a botanical display,
but rather a garden that reads as a cohesive whole, and one that resists excess
t its heart lies a small valley, shaped by water. a still body
reflects the sky, its surface broken by the geometry of a
Apagoda and drifting pads of lotus and water lilies. Along the
edges, arum lilies and reeds blur the boundary between land and
water, and fever trees trace the natural stormwater line to the north-
east. It is an ecological response to the site’s drainage patterns rather
than a forced intervention.
The surrounding steep slopes have been stabilised through
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