Arabic Garden Design
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Arabic garden design. The design of the arab gardens is given by levels there is a level of shade another of plants with flower and finally the water level. If you are lucky enough to be able to afford it travel. In general they are complex areas that must have a perfect interconnection for the garden to work.
In arabic the name for a heavenly garden is jannah of which the highest level of garden is firdaws most commonly used in the phrase jannaat al firdaws gardens of paradise. The design principles of traditional islamic gardens i e. When visiting these gardens photograph many different angles to help you to reproduce your.
Hellenistic influences are also apparent in their design as seen in the western use of straight lines in a few garden plans. The characteristics we associate with islamic gardens are mostly based on persian gardens which existed before islam moved out of the arabian peninsula. Persian gardens were traditionally enclosed by walls and the persian word for an enclosed space is pairi daeza leading to the paradise garden.