Gardening World Cup 2011

Location: Nagasaki, Japan

The Reconnection Garden is a secluded, peaceful space that can be used as a place of retreat.

The garden provides a place to be away from one’s normal life and to reconnect in whichever form the garden user chooses.

Layout shapes derived loosely from a spiral are intended to suggest an atmosphere which can be inclusive and embracing. At the centre of this garden is circular pool with an intermittent pulse creating ripples in the water, spreading from the middle of the pool to its edge.