Domain VII · GARDEN DESIGN · 1526–1707
Garden Design
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Structure framing nature · Char-bagh, the water axis · 1526–1707
Rootsthe tradition
The char-bagh's fourfold geometry, water as the organizing axis and its sound, the walled paradise, the Taj doubled in the reflecting pool.
The ideawhat it values
Walls, walks and channels laid out before a single tree is planted. Water is the organising element and it is made to move by gradient alone, so the levels of the ground are decided by where the sound should be. The plan is severe and the planting is not, and the tension between them is the whole design rather than a compromise within it.
Plateswhat the record looks like
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The groundin the Atlas
The tree names 73 topics here, under Architecture & Monuments. A branch carries more than one domain, so read it as the ground rather than the boundary.
Writtenwhere the archive stands
Nothing written here yet. The tree already names 73 topics on this ground, so the gap is one of writing rather than of scope — and saying so is more use than filling the page.