How the classical Chinese gardens have achieved a small, at hand, mountains and forests

First, borrowed scenery. Borrowed scenery is an important artistic technique of Chinese garden design, if good use, not only can expand the sense of space, but also will have the design of the place is not expected stunning effect. If there is a good landscape around the garden, then the garden can be outside the beauty of the garden through appropriate techniques to organize the garden, broaden the visual scope of the garden.

Second, reduce the size. The size of the space to give people the feeling and the scale of the scenery has a certain degree of relationship, especially artificial buildings and garden architecture vignettes, in the minds of people have a suitable scale.

Third, the first suppressed and then raised. and the architectural space is very similar to the contrasting techniques, that is, before people enter the garden of the subject space, to create some sequential space to guide the entry, these spaces are usually relatively closed or dark, so that the main space suddenly appeared, due to the strong spatial relationship between the opening and closing of the emergence of "darkness and brightness" of the bright The main space is relatively closed or dark.

Suzhou Netshi Garden

The Netshi Garden can be said to be the best representative of the "small but big" gardening technique. The Garden is a typical private garden with a house and a garden. The eastern part of the residential area, the overall structure is strictly prohibited rules, the overall space is small, but gives a sense of atmosphere. The central part of the garden is the main scenic spot, which is worth mentioning is the water feature.

The central water space is not spacious, and the surrounding area is closed and there is no open space, but the gardeners take the open pool as the center, set up a meandering corridor along the water's edge, and adopt the technique of contrasting landscape and the desire to raise and lower the water first, so as to make the overall environment doubly deep and twisted.

The surface of the water is gathered and not divided, the duck shooting gallery is built in front of the water, the small stone bridge and the Maundy Thursday Water Pavilion and so on are all low in front of the water surface, so that the surface of the pool shows a wide flow of water far away from the mood. In addition, in order to repeatedly create a broad atmosphere, the larger volume of buildings in the garden are away from the water's edge, and through plant cover and other tactics to reduce and deflate its sense of volume. Such as Xiaoshan Conggui Xuan in front of the pile of stones, the Xuan body hidden half, reduce the oppression of people cramped meaning.