How to Build a Koi Pond - Pictures from my architect friend

My architect, Paul from KCS Architects - a talented bunch mind you, undertook this design brief for a 30 000l pond at my homesome years ago now. He even made a 3D video clip which was pretty cool. It is at the bottom of this page.

His brief was simple. Make it stunning. And make it cheap.

Well, I suppose that one out of two ain't bad. Pity I sold the house before building the pond... Nonetheless I hope that you'll find these pictures useful.

I apologise in advance for the size of these pictures. I do hope that you find them useful however.

Koi pond design front section 3d

In this picture the idea was to house the filter system under the water fall on the left hand side. Note that there was no provision for a settlement chamber - the filtration system would take care of this.

Koi pond design partial elevation 3d

This shows the pond in some more detail.

koi pond design top view of bottom drains 3d

Top view of the pond showing a near ideal bottom drain configuration.

Click this link to see a (1.8 Mb) video clip of the Koi pond in 3D. You can also 'right click' the link and then click 'Save As' to download it your computer where you can view it at your leisure.