A shaded inner court at a Bukit Timah bungalow, designed as a still, contemplative pause within a busy home.
The owners had everything except somewhere to be quiet. The brief was a single word — calm — and the site, a north-facing inner court, gave us the soft, indirect light to deliver it.
We worked with restraint: ferns and calatheas in deep green, a single still-water element that catches the afternoon light, and stepping stones set into raked gravel. Nothing competes for attention, which is the point.
It has become the room the family gravitates to without quite knowing why. A garden does not always need to be busy to be loved — sometimes its job is simply to slow you down.
