HofLArc - unit 1 - gardens

Unit 1 - design concepts and plan views

sennufers garden

walled, symmetrical vineyard and fish pond garden that doubled as a private food supply and a wealthy escape from the city

mortuary temple queen hatshepsut

terraces and ramps built into the cliffside so the temple reads as an extension of the natural landscape

teotihuacan

strict grid, anchored by the avenue of the dead

cahokia

massive earthen mounds used to shape and define large civic and sacred plazas

pueblo bonito

D shaped house built with strong bilateral symmetry around a central plaza

delphi

sacred site known for its genius loci

athens

unplanned, organic city

pergamon

shows hippodamus grid planning ideas

miletus

home turf of hippodamus

florence

harmony, proportion, symmetry, rooted in humanism

timgad, algeria

perfect square gridded city built from scratch

rome

grew organically and unplanned despite the cities around it being gridded

house of the vettii

pompeii domus organized around a large peristyle garden

villa at boscoreale

rare functioning roman farm

villa of poppaea

pleasure garden with peristyle gardens and colonnaded porticoes

tuscan villa

known only through pliny’s letters

laurentinum

pliny’s seaside villa, arranged around a peristyle court

grotto of tiberius

natural sea cave converted into a sculpture filled outdoor dining room

hadrians villa

sprawling retreat combining many building and garden types

castle garden

small walled pleasure garden with a mount

cloister garden

enclosed garden ringed by a colonnade at the heart of a monastery

st. gall monastery

ideal monastery plan

medieval squares and piazzas

open space that grew informally from gates, church fronts, or vacant lots

piazza del campo

rare medieval square that was deliberately designed instead of grown organically

chahar bagh

four square garden plan with persian roots

court of the oranges

tows of trees in the mosque’s courtyard that visually continue its interior forest of columns

alhambra

court of the lions

generalife

alhambras garden retreat

chang’an

walled, gridded capital oriented to the cardinal directions

shanglin yuan

enormous imperial hunting park

wangchuan villa

wang wei’s private mountain retreat

heian-kyo

city planning modeled directly on chinese imperial capitals

byodo-in

built to evoke amida buddha’s pure land paradise

joruri-ji

survivng pure land paradise garden

plan view of sennufers garden

plan view of mortuary temple queen hatshepsut

plan view of teotihuacan

plan view of cahokia

plan view of pueblo bonito

plan view of delphi

plan view of athens

plan view of pergamon

plan view of miletus

plan view of florence

plan view of timgad

plan view of rome

plan view of house of the vettii

plan view of villa at boscoreale

plan view of villa of poppaea

plan view of tuscan villa

plan view of laurentinum

plan view of grotto of tiberius

plan view of hadrian’s villa

plan view of st. gall monastery

plan view of piazza del campo

plan view of court of the oranges

plan view of generalife

plan view of wangcheng

plan view of chang’an

plan view of shanglin yuan

plan view of wangchuan yuan

plan view of heian-kyo

plan view of byodo-in

plan view of joruri-ji