Futures Forum: Knowle relocation project: "How buildings sit in their landscape"
Futures Forum: Knowle relocation project: green corridor
To quote a correspondent:
"Last night there was an interesting BBC4 doc “In Search of Arcadia” along the Thames between Chiswick and Twickenham. Next door to the poet Alexandria Pope’s garden is a Palladium villa called Marble Hall which is raised above a picturesque landscape. The Arcadian garden is special because of the stepped terraced lawns which provide a special perspective of the view down to the river":
"Such terraces are an integral part of the garden’s splendour in a similar way to that of the Knowle which with its ruins seeks to establish an Arcadian landscape by borrowing the verdant view through the valley down to the sea. Building over the terraces will of course destroy this historic Arcadian vista.
"Regarding the Knowle, the terraces are a unique landscape and
heritage asset.
"This distinctive piece of garden design enhances the visitors
experience from both below and above.
"Due to its commanding position on the raised podium, which
when seen from the garden approach below, the terraces elevate the grandeur of
the building’s façade.
"From above this provides the advantage of a clear distant
vista and due to a trick perspective, the eye perceives a more expansive area of
lawn space below it than otherwise would be the case of a slope without the
terraces.
"It is this rare historic terrace feature combined with the
listed stone ruin which makes this Arcadian landscape so important to
retain."
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