1 RIPPLE EFFECT
panish designer Fernando Caruncho was ‘challenged to integrate the garden, architecture and landscape’ at his home-studio in Madrid. ‘The plan was very simple, perhaps even minimalist: two small cubes surrounded by a garden,’ he says. Fernando creates ‘a spatial continuum’ between the rectilinear forms of the buildings and a series of gravel circles, one with a small round water ‘fountain’ at its centre. Ripples radiate across the gravel as water is perceived beyond the boundaries of the pool. The perimeter planting, in the form of evergreen boxwood and shade–giving trees, is