The park
Two hectares in the Lyubertsy district
Rain Lines is a park hotel beside a Japanese garden. The garden covers 17,000 square metres, has been under construction since 2025 and opens in the 2029 season. Three houses are already available to rent.
Why Rain Lines
A story of rain — the sound and the lines under which the significant events of a life take place. It is a mixture of traditions, myths and legends.
Water in a Japanese garden is an element apart. The Japanese give it great importance and treat it as divine. Deities are believed to live in it, which is why shrines are built beside water.
Just as raindrops run down glass in unpredictable lines, so streams and waterfalls in the garden cut furrows into the hills, winding and turning until they reach the pond — a symbol of the ocean.
People take different paths and carry different tasks through life, but at the end of the road we are all part of one whole — the ocean of Eternity…
How the work went
Trees
A practical class on shaping and maintaining niwaki from conifers — the Tree Architect 3.0 course, Niwaki nursery, 9 June.
End of the season
Heavy losses from the cold winter and the late frosts, but we got through the season.
Japan
A trip through gardens and streets: tree shaping, tools, care. Two months of work with trees.
The design
Work schedules, plans and concepts for the garden: 17,000 square metres, a Japanese stroll garden built around water.
Hills and a model
We came onto the site and began shaping the hills. Besides the sketch plan we built a scale model.
The dry waterfall
A workshop with Hiromi Hoshi: in three days we laid Ryumonbaku — the “carp and dragon waterfall”.
Horai island
The Tree Architects Club, with Andrey Darusenkov and Irina Andrianova, set the stones of the island and shaped the trees.
The tsukubai, the pond and the Beginning garden
Two workshops in a row: the washing basin at the entrance, the first water in the Dragon's House pond, and the universe-garden in front of the stage.
The Yugenbaku waterfall
A hundred tonnes of stone, nine days and five metres of height, led by Hiromi Hoshi and Irina Andrianova.
The garden opens
Three years of work are planned for the water features. We do not name an exact date: on a building site it almost always moves.
Four seasons
A Japanese garden shows itself differently in every season — and is built with all four in mind, not one.
“In winter, even a winter without snow, every plant of our latitude is asleep! But we are getting ready for spring.”
Photographs coming soon.