Door · Fence · Hedge · Bamboo fence

Author: (Japan) Kazuo Mitsubashi
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Publish Date: 2003-06-01
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New Japanese garden design. The design of gates and fences is often carried out simultaneously with the construction of new houses. Building a house is a major event in life. The house itself embodies the owner's ideals and principles, and the peripheral structures (gates, fences) also play a crucial role.
The current trend in the residential industry is to include even peripheral works within a profit-centered fixed model, merely assembling prefabricated components. Convenience and originality are rarely considered, resulting in a failure to achieve true beauty. Many architects take the peripheral works seriously, treating the entire building as their own work. Even in seemingly ordinary designs, there can be creative ingenuity, and such external structures can make people feel at ease, recognizing them as good works. The proposing contractor has a responsibility, but the commissioning owner, as the owner of the property, also needs to conduct thorough research and consideration. While being cheap is naturally good, excessively cheap construction cannot produce good things. A house's appearance reflects the personality, education, and cultural level of its inhabitants, and this is no exaggeration.
There are now countless buildings with poor taste. Although how to build is a matter of personal freedom, whenever those extravagant buildings appear, one cannot help but wonder if "just right" is no longer the source of Japanese aesthetics.