11/05/2026
In Japanese garden design, Shakkei (借景) means “borrowed scenery,” the art of framing a distant landscape so it becomes part of the garden’s own composition.
At the Chalon Road Residence, the adjacent golf course is our borrowed scenery. It gave the site its depth, so we oriented the pool toward it. Rather than marking a boundary, the water becomes the merging element between the property and the course, drawing the green landscape into the home and extending it far beyond its lines.
Architecture: Manuelian Architects
Video courtesy of: Christie's International Real Estate