Contemporaty Char-Bagh

This project is inspired and based on the traditional Persian paradise garden. In the traditional Persian paradise garden, the broad bands of wavy fines represent the canal the "four rivers of life" that divide the garden into four smaller ones, hence the name char¬bagh (four gardens).

But in this garden, the canals represent a place for the people, the affluence and afflux. The life in the garden is the way how each person lives here.

Canals divide the garden into four large water tanks. The role of the water is inverted. The water symbolizes life and prosperity. Bach tank has smaller halls, in which there are trees.

There are cypresses and fruit trees. The cypresses that fine the main canals symbolize death and eternity; the fruit trees represent life and fertility. This is the new paradise garden, a garden emerging from water.

(Competitor's text)

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