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Garden Mythos

This project sits on the ancestral and unceded land of the Chochenyo speaking Ohlone people.

A mythic garden in the Berkeley Hills, dedicated to perception and experience.

With a gentle fracture of the existing grade into terraces we revealed several new spaces that burrow into the slope. The angled and staggering lines distort perception; your view forward is different from the view back.

The myth plays with your ability to ration and invites you to experience only what is.

Black and white flowers in their stark contrast bounce back and forth.

Balance on a recycled eucalyptus stump and gaze over the garden or further even, to the bay below.

A wood fence spirals up the hill and carries your eye towards the hawks that live in the trees.

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Sara, who commissioned this project, was inspired to have her daughter perform the tale of Persephone in the garden, which in turn, inspired the name.

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Project Build: Greenhand Landscape
Photography: by Caitlin Atkinson

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Dune Hai is an artistically driven landscape architecture studio that is enthusiastic about planting forward design, elevating simple materials, and incorporating cross-cultural aesthetics for unique gardens that enhance a site and increase stewardship.

Garden Mythos

A mythic garden in the Berkeley Hills, dedicated to perception and experience.

​Sara, who commissioned this project, was inspired to have her daughter perform the tale of Persephone in the garden, which in turn, inspired the name.

Learn more about our design process, or reach out to work with us.

Sara, who commissioned this project, was inspired to have her daughter perform the tale of Persephone in the garden, which in turn, inspired the name.