MUGHAL GARDEN

Location : India – Delhi, Agra, Kashmir

Climate

Tropical climate – intense heat from march to June and monsoon from June to September.

Terrain

1. flat at Delhi/ Agra ,dry hot air and less vegetation

2. hilly area slopping sites at Kashmir, snow melted water source and thick carnivorous vegetation.
EXPRESSION
At the scale of the individual garden, Mughal gardens have likewise evoked a common spatial image – square
enclosures, symmetrically divided into four equal parts delineated by slightly elevated walks and water channels
that create the garden type known as the chahar bagh (four-fold garden).

Humayun’s tomb-garden,was the first monumental Mughal garden constructed in

South Asia.
Mughal dynastic chronology that structured their sense of identity and the cultural arts that they produced. In each dynastic epoch, we
consider how the spaces within gardens were organized and experienced and, just as important, how they related to their surrounding
landscapes and regional contexts. Notwithstanding the rich diversity of individual gardens, several recurring spatial patterns stand out
including:

1. The geographical space of water in landscape design 2.The ephemeral space of: prospect and refuge in gardens
symbolic appropriation of the land observation and
experimentation

Nishat Garden,Kashmir Humayun’s tomb

3. The afterlife of Mughal gardens in: colonial appropriation twentieth-century heritage conservation new
frontiers for urban conservation design and development

The char bagh aren’t just gardens

The symbolism behind it very string
and relates to after life. The quraan
describes pradise as a garden with
four rivers of water,milk,wine and
honey.
AXIAL GEOMETRY
FLOWING WATER AND POOLS
COLOURFUL FLOWER BEDS AND
FRUIT TREES
CLASSIFICATION OF MUGHAL GARDENS

Mughal gardens are generally divided into four sections-

1. Rectangular Pearl Garden

2. Long Butterfly Garden
3. Circular Garden
4. Terraced Garden
Rectangular Pearl Garden

Rashtpati Bahavan
Long Butterfly Garden

Rashtpati Bahvan
Circular Garden

Rashtpati Bahvan
Terraced Garden

Shalimar Bagh, Kashmir

SHALIMAR BHAGH (KASHMIR)
TAJ MAHAL (AGRA)
SHUKRIYA