Islamic Garden Design

Islamic garden are Heaven on earth. Private paradises that are guided by the Quran, these gardens are a metaphor for a belief system that defines heaven as garden. Desert gardens, they are not lush, but focus on rills and rectilinear quadrants, (Char bagh design) that are necessitated by the need for irrigation. Patterns, Calligraphy, Rills, protective walls, privacy, desert plants, fruit trees and potted pops of color.
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Photo 1 of 4 in In Texas, a Moorish-Inspired Residence Riffs on…
Photo 1 of 4 in In Texas, a Moorish-Inspired Residence Riffs on Old-World Architecture - Dwell
Inventory of Islamic Historic Gardens: Fin Garden in Iran - Med-O-Med
Inventory of Islamic Historic Gardens: Fin Garden in Iran | Med-O-Med
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Rincones de Andalucía: la Alhambra (Granada) / Places of Andalusia: the Alhambra (Granada), by @travistravis7
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Moorish Architecture - Marrakech, Morocco - The presence of riads, palaces with interior courtyards and gardens and open skylights, are specific to Morocco and essential to Islamic design because of their emphasis on privacy. The lack of street-level windows and the use of clay walls also lends to the feeling of intimacy and grace.
Garden Travel to Le Riad Jasmine in Marrakech, Morocco
Le Riad Jasmine pool marrakech morocco
La Alhambra , Nazari Palace , Granada , Spain - Pinlovely
Would love to walk through a garden like this and just breathe... La Alhambra: Nazari Palace, Granada, Spain
Os 10 jardins mais bonitos do mundo
Alhambra fountain, Spain
Jardim Shazdeh, Irão.
Bagh-e Shazdeh, Irão.http://entrepreambulos.blogspot.pt/2017/03/jardim-shazdeh-irao.html
Granada travel - Lonely Planet
Tile detail at Comares palace, Alhambra, Granada, Andalucía, Spain.Tile detail at Comares palace, Alhambra.
Chelsea Flower Show 2012 - Cleve West's Best in Show
Garden Rill - stone waterway.... essential to cooling and design of islamic gardens.
Les Spas NUXE une expérience de soin et de bien-être - NUXE
courtyard envy, La Villa des Orangers Marrakech