it is regarding mughal landscaping features and examples.

1. MUGHAL GARDENS
GROUP MEMBERS
Chitrakshi Kumar
Anupama Kulkarni
Vineetha Nalla
Meghna Mohandas
Asha Raman
Sandeep Verma

4. RAM BAGH
• the oldest Mughal charbagh (four-quartered garden)
in Agra, built by the Babur during the early 16th
century.
• also called Bagh-gul-Afshan (light scattering
garden) and Aalsi Bagh (lazy garden)
Bagh-I-Gul-Afshan (The flower Scattering garden)
Bagh-I-Nur-Afshan (The light scattering garden)
Or Ram bagh (1526-30, 1615-19 A.D.)

5. • The garden is divided into 36 squares by a grid of water
channels and paths.
• The square garden is surrounded by a high rubble wall
divided initially into four large squares separated by
causeways and channels,
• each square divided again into smaller squares by
pathways creating a char bagh.
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Humayun's Tomb
COMSSIONED BY BEGA BEGUM IN 1569-1570 designed by Mirak Mirza
Ghiyath

6. Terraced gardens of Kashmir
Adapted from Persian gardens but with an axial water channel
& terraces

7. Shalimar bagh
1619 by jehangir completed in 1630 by shah jahan
Terraced garden with
Three terraces
The three terraces have 3 pavilions
each
• Diwan-I-aam
• Diwan-i-khaas
• Zenana section
Connected to the dal lake with a canal
The canal measures 6 meters across
Adorned with chinar trees (Platanus orientalis)

8. Nishat bagh
1633 by Asif Khan (shah jahan)
Directly fronts the dal lake, earlier the
approach used to be from the lake.
Built in the east-west direction.
Terraced garden with 12 terraces symbolic of the zodiac

9. RED FORT
Hayat-Bakhsh Garden - ‘life-bestowing garden”
SAWAN PAVILLION
• divided into squares on the pattern of Mughal gardens with
causeways and channels between them
BHADON PAVILLION
• This garden is intersected by two channels of water to
north of the fort
laid out by Shahjahan when he built the fort in 1639-48
•Two pavilions called Savon and Bhadon stand at
either end of the north-south channel.

10. Nahr-i-Behisht
• The apartments consist of a row of pavilions that sits
on a raised platform along the eastern edge of
the fort, looking out onto the river Yamuna.
•The pavilions are connected by a continuous water
channel, known as the Nahr-i-Behisht, or the
"Stream of Paradise", that runs through the centre
of each pavilion.
• SHAH BURJ AT NORTH-EASTERN CORNER OF THE GARDEN AND AZAD BURJ ON THE
SOUTH-EASTERN CORNER OF THE FORT

11. The gardens of Taj
Mahal
•Built by shah jahan
•According to the holy Koran, a garden is symbolic
of paradise
•Garden divided into 4 parts(importance of number
4 in Islam)
•Further divided into 16 sections
•Trees of Taj garden are either that of Cyprus
(signifying death) or of the fruit bearing type
(signifying life) .arranged in a symmetrical pattern
•garden conjures up the Islamic concept of heaven
where rivers of water, milk, wine and honey flow

12. •Water in the canals was drawn from the river using purs,
a system of drawing water physically from river using
bucket and ropes.
• For irrigation the water from the overflowing canals was
used
•The tank has been arranged to provide a crystal clear
view of Taj in its water
•Out of total area of 580 meter by 300 meter of
the Taj complex, gardens alone cover an area of
300 meter by 300 meter distance and are based
on geometric arrangements of nature
•a copper pot was provided under each fountain
head: water filled the pots ensuring an equal
pressure to each fountain

13. Shalimar Garden , Lahore
1642 under shah jahan
An adaptation of the chahar bagh concept and the
shalimar bagh in Srinagar.
A three terraced garden with resting and meeting
pavilions and also a royal bath.
There are 410 fountains in the garden and five water
cascades.
Planted with fruit trees and other odiferous plants.

14. adaptations

15. Rashtrapati bhavan-mughal
gardens
20th century By Sir Edwin Lutyens
A terraced chahar bagh with two north-south & east-west
water channels with Fountains at crossings.
There is a butterfly garden about the circular pool and
there also is a rose garden.
The garden is home to lot of annual & evergreen plant
species.

16. Ismaili centre, london
Chahar bagh concept applied on a smaller scale.
Completed in 1985 by Architects Casson Conder
Partnership.

17. Aga Khan Museum,
toronto
To be completed this year (2013)
Landscape architect:
Vladimir Djurovic
Chahar bagh adapted in a modern Style.

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