Need to work on proportions though – not to be critical just more practical. After all who would know more about meditating by a pond than zen monks who originally came up with this idea in the first place?

It’s like the old romantic gardens, where the landscape architect framed the views with help of a planned path going “randomly” through the garden. Here you would also find the old “chinese” teahouses next to ponds and/or lakes – they were not needed in order to see the view, you could just sit on the grass. They were there as part of the walk, and were showing very specific picturesque frames in context to the stories. The gardens were no more real (true to nature) than the fairytales at the same time were.

Within limits I find this phenomena quite interesting and also provoking, but what I really like about THIS project is that they didn’t change the “real” nature, they just forced architecture’s butt in the seat, so to say – and now it looks new and fresh, but imagine coming back in 15 years and this old, green, overgrown with leafs’n'such hut still sits by the lakeside. And when you enter it without any prior expectations, the view would still be there as beautiful as it was 15 years ago (hopefully, knock-on-wood). So it’s almost reversed romantism, if that is possible.

P.S. pee in the woods.