Stone and Sand: Karesansui indoors

A dry landscape (kare-sansui) embedded in the interior floor. An area of the floor is sunken five centimeters, covered with fine white sand, with regular raked patterns on its surface. Within it are two to three naturally shaped stones, mostly buried in the sand with only their upper edges exposed, varying in size and not arranged in a straight line. The boundary of this area is a thin metal strip or wooden frame flush with the floor, forming a precise rectangle. Surrounding it is continuous wooden flooring. Above, a light falls from a high side window, creating a distinct patch of light on the sand surface, revealing the undulations of the raked patterns. People do not walk into it. Avoid: arranging stones in a regular queue, making the sand surface flat without raked patterns, making the area boundary irregular, adding plants and water inside.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一個嵌在室內地坪中的乾景。地面的一個區域下沉五公分,鋪著細白砂,表面有耙過的規則紋路;其中放著兩到三塊自然形狀的石頭,大部分埋在砂中只露出上緣,大小不一、不成直線排列。這個區域的邊界是一道與地坪齊平的細金屬條或木框,形狀是精確的矩形。周圍是連續的木地板。上方有一道從高側窗落下的光,在砂面上形成一塊明確的光斑,讓耙紋的凹凸顯現。人不會走進去。避免:把石頭排成規則的隊列、讓砂面平整沒有耙紋、把區域的邊界做成不規則、在裡面加入植物與水。