Mughal Garden Design Principles

But these vast gardens of the plains when bereft as so many of them are of their flowers trees and water the edges of their raised stone walks and platforms left.

Mughal garden design principles. During the mughal period a new formal garden style emerged which was based on the basic paradise garden design. Mughal garden design principles. The mughal dynasty and the beginning of formal gardens in lahore 1526 1749 in the indo pakistan subcontinent in the early sixteenth century the construction of.

The main elements of mughal gardens include running water and a pool to reflect the beauties of the sky and the garden different varieties of trees to provide shade to bear colorful and fragrant fruits or flowers. Taj mahal agra india. Respecting the axis is cardinal rule for implementing a charbagh geometry.

The famous shalimar garden and was known for his great love for flowers. Jahangir s son shah jahan marks the apex of mughal garden architecture and floral design. Birds to fill the gardens with song and the whole cooled by a pleasant breeze.

This paper is to analyzing the features used in the garden design of mughal garden. And design principles of gardens built in these three historical periods and their physical and functional character in the current socio cultural environment. The development of gardening in india started in ad 1525 when babur the first mughal king established the mughal dynasty in the country.

The study used a content analysis and observation of features used in the design for the. The word literally translates to four gardens. He is famous for the construction of akbar s the taj mahal and heir jahangir did the red fort which not build as much but contains the mahtab he helped to lay out bagh.

So you begin with dividing your garden into four equal parts using axial lines that intersect in the centre of the garden. Bold repetition and breadth of treatment lend as we have seen a wonderful fascination a grand serene and peaceful dignity to indian garden craft. The excavated mughal garden at wah 12 kms west of taxila near hasan abdal associated with mughal emperors akbar jahangir and shahjahah reveals that the pattern and overall design has not been symmetrical on the first and second terraces.