RESIDENTIAL
INSTITUTIONAL
HAVERFORD COLLEGE
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    The Dining Center outer stone wall serves as a backdrop for the dry stream, specimen rocks, antique Asian garden artifacts in a garden with Asian plants.
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    The stepping stone path along the dry stream links a wider path with an entrance to the Dining Center.
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    Larger rocks form a triad. An island rock in the dry stream provides contrast to the lower stream edge rocks and stepping stones.
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    Stepping stones provide a visual cue to lead the eye through the garden, as well as a way to walk through the garden with twists and turns to slow the tempo and to pause at focal points.
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    The Korean lantern and Japanese basin, with a lotus blossom design, are placed to form a grouping that recalls Japanese tea gardens.
The Denis Asian Garden provided a unique opportunity to create an Asian garden at Haverford College, based on a collection of Japanese and Korean antique garden artifacts assembled by Reed and Betsy Denis. The selected site was the Dining Center, adjoining the Teaf Garden, with a Japanese style design. The Denis Garden was created as a viewing garden to be seen from the building terrace and bridge, as a stroll garden on a stepping stone path, and as a focal point along a wider path connecting larger campus walkways.