Cooling with Water: A Narrow Channel in the Center of the Courtyard

A courtyard enclosed by buildings on four sides, with a stone-lined water channel 600mm wide and 150mm deep running through its long axis, with a small square pond at each end. Water flows slowly, with low cascades creating sound in several places. Citrus and date palm trees are planted on both sides of the channel, their canopies providing shade. The flooring is beige stone, darker near the channel due to moisture. The surrounding walls feature continuous pointed arch cloisters, which are in deep shadow. Due to evaporation and shade, the courtyard temperature is noticeably lower than outside. Avoid: making the channel wide like a pond, adding fountains, paving the center of the courtyard as a plaza, planting trees in neat rows.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一個四面被建築圍合的庭院,中央有一道寬 600mm、深 150mm 的石砌水渠,沿著庭院的長軸貫穿,兩端各有一個方形的小水池。水緩慢流動,幾處有低矮的跌水發出聲音。水渠兩側種植柑橘與棗椰,樹冠提供遮蔭。地坪是米色的石材,靠近水渠的部分因為潮濕而顏色較深。四周的牆有連續的尖拱迴廊,迴廊裡是深陰影。因為蒸發與遮蔭,庭院的溫度明顯低於外面。避免:水渠做寬變成水池、加入噴泉、庭院中央鋪成廣場、樹木種成整齊的行列。