Persian Garden

ペルシャ庭園 / 6th century BC– / Style / Garden Styles

The origin of the chahar bagh, quartered by crossing water channels: a walled paradise of water and shade built against the desert. It gave the word paradise its meaning and the garden its archetype from Islam to the Mughals.

Persian Garden — Fin Garden (CC BY-SA 4.0) · © Amir Pashaei — Fin Garden (CC BY-SA 4.0) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · © Amir Pashaei

Persian Garden — Wagner Garden Carpet (Burrell Collection), 17th century — Wikimedia Commons / Public domain — Wagner Garden Carpet (Burrell Collection), 17th century — Wikimedia Commons / Public domain

At a glance

Visual cues

Fourfold division by water
Axial basins and channels
The walled paradise
Shaded avenues

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Dry climate sites where water and shade are the resources being distributed
Walled courtyards designed to turn their back on the street

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Dictionary entry

Type: Run inscriptions as a band along channel edge and wall, never the center
Composition: Quarter the plot with crossing channels and set a basin at the crossing
Material: Keep channels shallow against evaporation and let avenues carry shade
Caution: The fourfold plan gets copied on the drawing while flow and continuous shade are never secured, and the heat leaves nobody able to stay.
Further study: the chahar bagh structure / Pasargadae / qanat water engineering

Related entries

Mughal Garden (ムガル庭園)Same Garden Styles lineage.Compare Persian Garden and Mughal Garden
Islamic Geometric Pattern (イスラム幾何学文様)Shared effects: Calm / Luxury / Trust.Compare Persian Garden and Islamic Geometric Pattern

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