Meditation Court

 “Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, you put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.”

–Bruce Lee

Above is one of the themed courtyards we designed that linked several I.T. buildings together. This is a part of a whole complex of project we are doing for Hexaware Technologies in India. it has a very extensive landscape and development plan that went through several stages of design to please the client. This particular courtyard is dubbed "Meditation Court" and has two  water features in it (a natural looking lagoon and a waterfall that plunges and act as a focal element of interest to the floor below. I'll be posting more of this project as I finish every segment.

The building is very "hard", composed of mainly modern polished stone- cladded, steel and glass exterior. Therefore the landscape's place-making is directed towards balancing that hardness with "softness" that incorporates natural elements of mounded turfing(grass), water, stones, rocks and lush planting with that of functionality.