English garden landscape design

ENGLISH GARDEN
(LANDSCAPE DESIGN & SITE PLANNING)

1. ENGLISH GARDEN
(LANDSCAPE DESIGN & SITE PLANNING)
SUBMITED TO:-
AR.SHRUTI S. HIPPALGAONKAR l AR. HIMANSHU VERMA l AR. RAMAVTAR SHARMA
SUBMITTED BY:-
VIJENDRA SUTHAR
CHANDRAPRAKASH SUTHAR
SIMRAN YADUVANSHI
PRIYANJAL TIWARI
OM PRAKASH YADAV
RISHABH KUMAVAT
YUKTI MATHUR
ISHITA CHAPLOT

2. CONTENTS
BRIEF
IDENTIFICATION
GARPHICAL PRESENTATION
EXAMPLES

3. BRIEF & HISTORY
THE ENGLISH LANDSCAPE STYLE IS THE
KNOWN INFLUENCE THAT SHIFTED FROM
FORMAL, SYMMETRICAL GARDENS TO A
LOOSER, IRREGULAR STYLE. THE
ENGLISH GARDEN WAS A TURN OF THE
CENTURY IDEAL AND CHANGED MANY
ASPECTS OF LANDSCAPE TO THE
COMMUNITY. BEFORE THE
INTRODUCTION OF ENGLISH
LANDSCAPE, NATURE WAS VIEWS AS
DANGEROUS, THE ENGLISH LANDSCAPE
COMPLETELY CHANGED THIS VIEW TO
APPRECIATE AND VALUE THE NATURAL
WORLD. THIS STYLE WAS INSPIRED BY
PAINTING AND ITS DESIGN WAS
INFLUENCED THROUGH MANY
DISCIPLINES SUCH AS HISTORY,
PHILOSOPHY AND SCIENCE. THE
INNOVATIVE DESIGN OF THE ENGLISH
LANDSCAPE STYLE FOREVER CHANGED
GARDENING AND INFLUENCES MANY
HOMEOWNERS TO BRING A SENSE OF
NATURE INTO THEIR OWN YARD TO THIS
DAY.
•BEFORE ENGLISH GARDEN MOST
GARDEN WAS ARRANGED IN FRENCH
OR DUTCH STYLE .
•THESE FRENCH AND DUTCH
GARDENS HAVE RECTANGULAR
SUBDIVISION.
•STRAIGHT AVENUES & PATHS AND
WATER CONTAINED SYMMETRICALLY
SHAPED BASIN.

4. INTRODUCTION TO
NEW STYLE
•THE NEW STYLE THAT BECAME
KNOWN AS THE ENGLISH
GARDEN WAS INVENTED BY
LANDSCAPE DESIGNERS WILLIAM
KENT AND CHARLES
BRIDGEMAN.
•WILLIAM KENT (1685 –1748) WAS
AN ARCHITECT, PAINTER AND
FURNITURE DESIGNER WHO
INTRODUCED PALLADIAN STYLE
ARCHITECTURE TO ENGLAND.
KENT'S INSPIRATION CAME FROM
PALLADIO'S BUILDINGS IN THE
VENETO AND THE LANDSCAPES
AND RUINS AROUND ROME. HIS
GARDENS WERE DESIGNED TO
COMPLEMENT THE PALLADIAN
ARCHITECTURE OF THE HOUSES
HE BUILT.
•CHARLES BRIDGEMAN (1690 –
1738) WAS THE SON OF A
GARDENER AND AN
EXPERIENCED HORTICULTURIST.
HE COLLABORATED WITH KENT
ON SEVERAL MAJOR GARDENS,
PROVIDING THE BOTANICAL
EXPERTISE WHICH ALLOWED
KENT TO REALIZE HIS
ARCHITECTURAL VISIONS.

5. Elements
within English
gardens
•Recreations of classic
buildings
•Ruins
•Bridges
•Benches
•Brick
•Thatch
•Natural stone
•Cobblestone
•Wattle edging & panels
•Bee skep
•English pot

6. CHARACTERISTICS
•LAKE-THEREWASALWAYSALAKEINTHE
ENGLISH GARDENS, MOSTWEREMAN-MADE
BUTALLAPPEARED TOBENATURALFORMING
BASINS.THEIREDGES WEREMEANDERING
ANDIRREGULAR ANDOFTENHADPATHWAYS
WEAVING THROUGH THETREESANDCLOSE
TOTHEWATER’SEDGE.
•ROLLING LAWNS-TOPOGRAPHY ALLOWFOR
SURPRISES ASYOUR COMING AROUND
MOUNDS ORNICHES.EVENIFYOUCREATEA
SMALLMOUNDING AREA,THISREPRESENTS
NATURE BETTER THAN ACOMPLETELY
LEVELEDLANDSCAPE .
•TREEGROVES -WERESPREAD THROUGHOUT
THELANDSCAPE WITHPATHSTHATALLOWED
THEGARDENS USERS TOWANDER INAND
OUTOFTHEGROVESANDPROVIDEAVIEWOF
ROLLING LAWNS AGAINST MASS TREE
PLANTINGS.
•SCULPTURE -WASENTIRELYDIFFERENTTHAN
PREVIOUS GARDEN ART.PART OFTHE
ENGLISH LANDSCAPE IDEALS WAS TO
PROVIDE VIEWS FROM ADISTANCE OF
CLASSIC DETAILED ARCHITECTURE AND
RUINS.
•HAHA-WASATYPEOFWALLUSED TO
PREVENT ANIMALS FROM ENTERING TOO
CLOSE TO THE HOUSE WITHOUT
OBSTRUCTING THE VIEW OF THE
COUNTRYSIDE .
•GROTTOS -WEREUSEDASROMANTIC HIDE
OUTS.THEYWEREMANMADE BUTBUILDTO
RESEMBLE ADARKNATURALFORMING CAVE.

7. ENGLISH GARDEN
-RESIDENCE
•THEENGLISHSTYLEGARDENS WEREBUILTINAMASSIVE
SCALE;HOWEVER, ITISSTILLPOSSIBLE TODESIGNAN
ENGLISHSTYLEGARDEN INARESIDENTIAL LANDSCAPE .
•REPLICATETHEAREASWITHINANENGLISH LANDSCAPE
STYLEBYSCALINGTHEMDOWN.
•YOUDON’THAVETHEAREATOCREATE ANATURAL
LOOKING LAKE;YOUCANEASILYREPRESENT THISBYA
SMALLPOND.
•TREEGROVES CANBESIZEDDOWNTOCONSIST OFA
SMALLGROUPING, ANDASMALLWOODEN FOOTBRIDGE
CANBEINCORPORATED OVERTHESMALLPONDAREA.
•PLANTGROUPS OFTHEFLOWERS THATWILLPROVIDE
COLORANDANICEFRAGRANCE .
•THESEGARDENS AREDESIGNED TOLOOKNATURALAND
BEAPLACEFORMEDITATIONANDRELAXATION.
•THE ENGLISH LANDSCAPE DESIGN STYLE IS
GUARANTEED TOINTRODUCE ASENSEOFMYSTERY TO
YOURLANDSCAPE .

8. 10
ICONIC
ENGLISH
GARDENS
TO STUDY

9. TRENTHAM GARDENS
DESCRIBED AS“THEGARDEN MAKE-OVEROFTHE
DECADE”, THEGARDENS ATTRENTHAM INTHE
NORTH-WESTOFENGLAND HAVEBENEFITTED FROM
THEEXPERTISE ANDSKILLOFGREATMODERN
GARDEN DESIGNERS SUCHASTOMSTUARTSMITH,
PIET OUDOLF AND NIGEL DUNNETT.
INCORPORATING WONDERFUL HISTORICFEATURES
SUCH ASCAPABILITY BROWN’S LAKEANDSIR
CHARLES BARRY’S PARTERRE, THENEWDESIGN
FEATURES INNOVATIVE AND CONTEMPORARY
PLANTING WHICHISSETTINGTHETRENDFORTHE
NEXTGENERATION OFGARDENS.

10. ELEMENTS
AND
PRINCIPLES
•BALANCE
•SYMMETRY
•UNITY
•RYTHM

11. ROUSHAM HOUSE
•Rousham House in Oxfordshire is
considered by some as the most
accomplished and significant of
William Kent's work. The patron
was General Dormer, who
commissioned Bridgeman to begin
the garden in 1727. But then
brought in Kent to recreate it in
1737
•He has used a statue of Apollo
inside the garden , depicting a
theatre play that how a groove
of trees draws the eye on the
statute .
•To achieve a paintly effect Kent
instructed his Gardner to use
dark colours of evergreen trees

12. OTHER FEATURES
•TO CREATE THE ILLUSION OF UNBROKEN
LANDSCAPE KENT HAS USED SEVERAL
TECHNIQUE AT THE GARDEN OF ROUSHAM
HOUSE.
•ONE OF THOSE TECHNIQUE IS HA HA
WALL
•A WALL THAT SEPARATED GARDEN FROM
GRAZING LAND , BEING INVISIBLE FROM A
DISTANCE
•CATTLE COULD BE KEPT SEPARATED
WITHOUT THE USE OF HEDGES OR
FENCES
•AT ROUSHAM KENT EXTENDED THE VIEWS
INTO THE DISTANCE BY DESIGNING A
GOTHIC STYLE ALTERATION TO AN OLD
MILL ON THE OTHER SIDE OF RIVER.
•HIGH UP IN THE HILL HE CREATED A
LARGE TRIPLE ARCH ARCHITECTURAL
FOLLY CALLED THE EYE -CATCHER

13. OTHER FEATURES
•IT WAS MADE ON PURPOSE TO
DIRECT THE VIEW TOWARDS THE
FIELD ABOVE THE GARDEN.
•KENT’S CRAFTED VIEWS ARE
BEST APPRECIATED FROM THE
SEAT HE HAS DESIGNED AND
SCATTERED THROUGHOUT HIS
GARDENS ANDRUSTIC SEAT
PROVIDE THE VIEW OF GARDEN
TO WATCH THE RIVER FLOW
BENEATH THE STONE BRIDGE.
•KENT’S GARDEN OFTEN
ANNOUNCED THEMSELVES WITH
SPECTACULAR GATES ,
ENTRANCES , HE HAS PUT THOSE
GATES AND ENTRANCES ON THE
PERIMETER OF THE LAND OWNER
HOLDINGS IN ROUSHAMS.
•AFTER YEARS OF EXPERIMENTING
WITH CASCADES AND DIFFERENT
COMMISSIONS HE CREATED THE
SPECTACULAR VEIL OF VENUS AT
ROUSHAMS IT HAD FOUNTAIN AT
THAT TIME WHICH WENT UP AS
LONG AS 50 FEET IN AIR.