Designer: Max Lim - Assistant Designer: James Kilkelly
The Five Senses Garden is based on Mother Nature’s creativity by using five elements: earth, wood, fire and metal. With these elements provided, the five senses adapt naturally. This garden should not just look beautiful; it should be a haven to savour the outdoor living space and experience that stimulates the five senses.
Sight: A beautiful garden to fast the eyes upon. Meditate watching gentle movement of the aquatic plants. Look at the fish swimming in soft water features. Graze your eyes on the light swaying of the lush bamboo trees.
Touch: Sight must be rewarded with touch. The beautiful outdoors invites you to sit and snuggle cosily on wooden decking or get onto the sun deck.
Sound: Soothes your ears with the trickling sounds of water and leaves dancing gently in the wind.
Smell: Scents have a way of evoking feelings and emotions, stirring the soul with a whiff of fragrant plants and flowers.
Taste: Imagine being in Eden itself, savouring all the senses of sight, touch, sound and smell. Culminate the senses with the sense of taste. Delicacies will be much more pleasing to the palate in such pleasurable surroundings.
Designer’s note:
“I regard mythical Ireland as my home for the past 18 years, but sometimes my reverie yearns for the tropical sun, azure skies and swaying coconut trees of the land where I come from- Malaysia...The outdoors was one big room where I could play, eat and sleep... It was this idea of the outdoor living room around which a team of designers in Malaysia built a concept garden. The idea at the core is simple- design a garden that can be “lived in”, stimulating all your five senses as only nature can.”
Max Lim
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