English Style


Landscape style rococo style has kept striving to rural life, as well as creative use of some elements of regular planning. For the English landscape style is characterized by the abolition of all architectural forms and stamps, the lack of straight lines and asymmetry forms. The most realistic looks rugged terrain; using the terrain, sometimes artificially created, you can achieve correct sequence of landscapes and create special scenic outlook. The distribution of light and shadow in a garden create additional visual effects. The basic idea of ​​the English landscape style - creative processing of natural areas in order to emulate the natural landscape garden. Architects used natural forms of landscape components as a working material, including creating their new reality that fit perfectly with the surrounding nature.

A major role in the landscape (English) style played enthusiasm, fashionable at the time, cultural antiquity. There are various structures and small architectural forms: the temples, pavilions, halls and memorials dedicated to the events of a historical nature or personal memories and travel. In fashion as a variety of "ruins", which were constructed artificially induced and romantic mood.

The lack of ostentation in the distribution of architectural structures characterized by a landscape style for ornamental ponds. Artificial pond was created on the patterns of nature, had a curved coastline, skirting the hill in a natural way. In strengthening the coast and in the decorative frame reservoir often used "wild stone". Present and man-made elements - bridges and stairs, but without deliberately artificial embankments. Babbling brook meanders bizarre way through the garden, running under the bridge, cools his moist breath coastal plants. This natural idyll was created in the English landscape style by artificial means, but it is harmonious in all its details and organically fit into the natural landscape.