The project is a sake brewery and geothermal power-plant, located on the charged Inujima, one of Japan's art islands. Such island asks for architecture that can sustainably mediate leisure and infrastructure. The aim is to spatially, formally and energetically integrate the two programs' industrial and hyper-ritualistic characters, by introducing a curated landscape. This garden is designed with three local conditions: formal, semi-formal, and informal, utlising a figure and ground operation. It simultaneously splits and connects the sake pavilions floating above, and the power plant carved underground.
Garden of Informality explores the slowness of rituals and production, exploring how nature interplays between them.

The project has been developed within the studio lead by Jesse Reiser (RUR Architects) at Princeton University School of Architecture (SoA).