Journal

The Garden as a Wellness Room

How heat, cold and quiet are being designed into landscape rather than added to it.

The most convincing home wellness projects are landscape projects. The cabin sits within planting rather than on a slab at the end of the lawn; the walk to it is lit, paved and sheltered; the cold plunge is close enough to use without thinking about it.

That sequencing — warm, cold, rest — is what determines whether a sauna is used weekly or twice a year.