A common garden links two new buildings for sheltered accommodation together. The clearing in the woods gives an architectural translation: the "hortus conclusus" or secret garden. Monks garden, monastery garden, refuge ...
This outdoor room provides an intriguing inversion of the concepts of full and empty.An additional transition zone provided between the inside and outside, between the within-without, gives the environment of the new residents an extra layer.It is the nuances of the own place, literally and figuratively as part of a larger whole. living as a microcosm.
