本案是栃木縣那須町的一片水草地，鄰近一家位於自然環境內的新飯店。這片水草地原是水稻田，現在已是一片鋪滿苔蘚的森林。過往的歷史痕跡仍然可見，例如稻田抽水用的水閘。新飯店的原址是一片森林，興土動工必會砍去許多樹木。由於林地與水草地的面積幾乎相同，因此將樹木全數移往水草地種植。而這片水草地的轉變不光是移植過來的森林，也是歷史的層層疊加，曾經的水稻田與苔蘚森林合而為一。

過往這些地景從未邂逅與融合。樹木移植過來後重新排列，原有的水閘將水引入，填滿無數個以既存灌溉系統相連的水池，流水以不同的速度潺潺流動。樹與水錯落交織，緊密相連的程度是自然界所未見。美麗的苔癬鋪滿樹木與水池間的空地。這片密林無須增減半分，前所未見的自然新景已躍然成形。景觀規劃與建築設計融為一體。一方面延伸建物規模，一方面增加景觀的準確度與特殊性，雙管齊下、同步進行。樹木與水池的形狀經過精心設計，為模糊的森林賦予明確框架，變成一個充滿巧思的空間。把森林移植到鄰近位址後重新排列，如同拼圖般，每一塊拼圖都具有深意。由此，每一棵樹都是自己的主人。三百一十八塊獨特的樹木拼圖之間，點綴以明亮的空地。

樹與樹之間錯落著一百六十個水池。移植過來的樹都是落葉木，包括山毛櫸、櫟樹等等。若是在自然環境，這幾種樹都無法跟水近距離共存。因此水池都做了防水處理，才得以創造出自然界從未存在過的新共存關係。人類怎麼可以介入自然環境？這片人工的自然景致會不會改變我們的生活環境？其實只要詳盡規劃，自然環境與人工環境可以混雜、交織、融合得更加緊密。

The project is located in a meadow near the site of a new hotel in the natural setting of Nasu in Tochigi. Before, the meadow site was a paddy field; a forest overgrows with moss, like the present-day surroundings. Traces of the site’s history, such as a sluice gate to draw water in remained. The site of the new hotel was once a forest where many trees would have to be cut down in order to make way for the building. Since the total area of the forest and the meadow were nearly the same, the project relocates the entire forest to the adjacent meadow. This act transforms the meadow, not only by moving the forest but also by superimposing all layers from the history of the site’s former environment the landscapes of the paddy field and the mossy forest are overlapped as one.

Landscapes that were originally here, but never met, mix and mingle with each other. Trees from the adjacent forest are rearranged on the site and water is drawn in from the existing sluice gate to fill countless ponds, which are all connected to the existing irrigation system with water flowing continuously at different rates. The ponds and trees are spread across the entire site at a density that is never found in nature. Moss laid out beautifully to fill the spaces in between. Without adding or discarding anything that was here, a hitherto unseen new nature appears on the site.

Planning landscapes as if planning architecture. Extending the scale of architecture and increasing the accuracy and specificity of the landscape are realised simultaneously. By planning specific shapes of trees and ponds, the vague scenery of the forest is given framework, and considered as a space with as much detail as possible. By moving trees to the adjacent site and rearranging them, the pieces of the puzzle are intentionally shifted. Autonomy of each tree is born. Luminous spaces appear between 318 unique tree shapes, at the same time 160 ponds are designed among these trees. Trees that are moved and rearranged are all deciduous trees such as beech, quercus, and canine. These tree species cannot coexist with water in close proximity in the existing natural environment. By applying waterproofing in the ponds, this coexistence and a new relationship which never existed are created. How can human beings intervene in the natural environment? Will the new nature created by them change our living environment? By planning nature in a detailed way, natural environment and human environment mingle, intertwine and merge more closely.