Imagine sitting by side of a large water body near a hill side on a clear sunny day and suddenly you see a huge cloud cover floating overhead along with grasses and trees around it. Now if you’re standing along the shoreline or sitting in a boat, you would to able to see the clear reflection of the grasses and trees lining the bank together with the possibility of low hills behind in the picture too. Conversely, if you’re standing on a hillside looking deep down into the water, the view will be much steeper. In fact, it will allow you to see more of the sky and clouds overhead with little or no details of the shoreline.
Well, here I would like to say that one can easily create this illusion even in the household pool. The quiet, downcast and subdued reflections of water offer an otherworldly look while hideously lending an appealing eerie. Geometrically well-proportional, a reflecting pool features a shallow pond area marked by tranquil and serene surface.
Generally, it is constructed near the man-made structures to enhance the overall appeal of the place and is designed with the outer basin floor at the rim slightly deeper than the central area. This is done in a way that it will prevent wave formation when the wind blows so that its mirror-like surface can reflect and magnify adjacent forms. One can construct it in the middle of a garden, courtyard, or at the end of a yard. Interestingly, it can work as the focal point of a seating area in household or commercial space like parks. The extraordinarily calm and serene reflecting pool is created by keeping the edges of the pond slightly deeper than the center surface of the pond.
However, in residential landscape design, a reflecting pond makes a perfect structure to easily link diverse landscape elements in order to create a cohesive contemplating aesthetic. Thus, it brings together both organic and inorganic elements into a single unified unit in a specific time span. This is the reason why reflecting pools are often built underneath a large garden sculpture or a fountain. To say it all, actually the reflections they create help to magnify the diverse elements and coherently increase their sense of unique distinction in the landscape design on a whole.
Well, here I would like to say that one can easily create this illusion even in the household pool. The quiet, downcast and subdued reflections of water offer an otherworldly look while hideously lending an appealing eerie. Geometrically well-proportional, a reflecting pool features a shallow pond area marked by tranquil and serene surface.
Generally, it is constructed near the man-made structures to enhance the overall appeal of the place and is designed with the outer basin floor at the rim slightly deeper than the central area. This is done in a way that it will prevent wave formation when the wind blows so that its mirror-like surface can reflect and magnify adjacent forms. One can construct it in the middle of a garden, courtyard, or at the end of a yard. Interestingly, it can work as the focal point of a seating area in household or commercial space like parks. The extraordinarily calm and serene reflecting pool is created by keeping the edges of the pond slightly deeper than the center surface of the pond.
However, in residential landscape design, a reflecting pond makes a perfect structure to easily link diverse landscape elements in order to create a cohesive contemplating aesthetic. Thus, it brings together both organic and inorganic elements into a single unified unit in a specific time span. This is the reason why reflecting pools are often built underneath a large garden sculpture or a fountain. To say it all, actually the reflections they create help to magnify the diverse elements and coherently increase their sense of unique distinction in the landscape design on a whole.
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