Line of sight
In urban planning and in park and landscape design, a visual axis or visual axis is a laid-out or kept clear aisle that allows a view of important buildings or landscape-defining elements along an axis . Lines of sight can simultaneously be the path connection to the property, as is common in baroque buildings (e.g. Karlsruhe ), or a pure line of sight without path connection, as was preferred in English horticulture (example Wörlitz). Often a line of sight ends in a point de vue as a visual target.
Karlsruhe is remarkable in terms of urban planning. Due to the fan-shaped arrangement, numerous streets form a street fan on the castle . This is also called a viewing fan. Similarly, there is the market of Neustrelitz (Mecklenburg-Strelitz) and Wörlitz display compartments.
Examples
- Ax historique in Paris
- New garden Potsdam
- Heilandskirche at the Port of Sacrow
- Neubrandenburg city gates in a straight layout
- Maximilianeum in Munich
- Nymphenburg Palace Park in Munich
- Schleißheim palace complex near Munich
- Rosental (Leipzig)
- Babelsberg Park in Potsdam and Sanssouci Park
- Dessau-Wörlitzer Gartenreich with the grounds of Wörlitz , Georgium , Luisium and others
- Fürst-Pückler-Park Bad Muskau
- Herrenhausen Gardens in Hanover
- Belvedere Palace in Vienna
- Kinross House in Kinross, Scotland
- Benrath Palace Park in Düsseldorf
One of the many visual axes in Wörlitzer Park (here: to the Temple of Venus)
Line of sight on Loch Leven Castle from Kinross House
View over the cascades to Hercules in Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe (Kassel)
Example of an everyday visual axis in the cityscape: the parish church in Weissenbach an der Triesting as the visual destination and end point of the avenue
literature
- Karsten Ley: space, time, function. The dimensions of the axis in urban planning. FdR, Aachen 2005, ISBN 3-936971-08-0 .
- Wilhelm Rave : The axis in architecture. TH Berlin (diss.), 1929.
- Clemens Steenbergen and Wouter Reh: Architecture and Landscape. The Design Experiment of the Great European Gardens and Landscapes. Prestel, Munich / New York 1996, ISBN 3-7643-0335-2 .