Terrace garden
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A terrace garden is a garden with a raised flat paved or gravelled section overlooking a prospect.[1] A raised terrace keeps a house dry and provides a transition between the hardscape and the softscape.
History
Persia
Since a level site is generally regarded as a requisite for comfort and repose, the terrace as a raised viewing platform made an early appearance in the ancient
Terrace (agriculture). The Hanging Gardens of Babylon must have been built on an artificial mountain with stepped terraces, like those on a ziggurat
.
Ancient Rome
Praeneste during the early Imperial period, the sanctuary of Fortuna
was enlarged and elaborated, the natural slope being shaped into a series of terraces linked by stairs.
Powys Castle, Mid Wales, falls away in a series of terraces, some supported on vaulted
undercrofts.The imperial villas at
Julio-Claudian dynasty, rooms in the cryptoporticus
beneath terracing were frescoed with trees in bloom and fruit.
Italian Renaissance
During the
Stanze of Raphael
on an upper floor of the Palace.
English landscape garden
Even in the most naturalistic
landscape gardens of Capability Brown
, a raised gravelled or paved terrace along the garden front offered a dry walk in damp weather and a transition between the hard materials of the architecture and the rolling greensward beyond.
Contemporary
Contemporary terrace gardens, in addition to being in the garden and landscape, often occur in urban areas and are
low-flow irrigation systems
, and outdoor furnishings.
See also
References
- ^ Rao, Urmila (2008-08-13). Outlook Money. Outlook Publishing. pp. 62–63.