PATTERN IN CHAOS: July 2016

Living in Mumbai I often hear my friends say they don't have enough room for outdoor plants and how they miss having landscaped, breathing pockets in their homes. So I decided to look around a bit and figured out a few examples, that can inspire the garden craving heart, to work around an open space and create a landscape experience up in the air.

# A Roof-Top garden with an organic flow on the 8th floor of a high rise building.
This Roof-top garden is a cosy get together space with a natural flow, ferro-crete arched roof with mosaic and exterior grade textured paint on the walls. This roofed verandah is designed with a lawn and drooping creepers at the edges. It fosters seating niches, a lotus pond and a barbecue place looking up into the sky encouraging a feel of luxury and comfort.

# A Modern Terrace Garden in vertical Mumbai.
This graceful and inviting terrace garden is designed with the space divided into three parts with an element of sprite that encourages socialising and relaxed conversations. The large temple tree facilitates the division into that of the entrance, the deck area with rough slate flooring, the terrace with planters thus extending to become the pivotal landscape feature. It is beautifully used to relax in the day time and party at night with mood lighting and landscaped ambience.

#Mediterranean Roof-Top garden
A landscape designed for leisure, peace and quiet, like a retreat within the busy metropolis. Lush biblical greenery, a living waterbody with fish, bog-plants, steps fringed with lillies to dip the feet in and bubbling gurgles from the bamboo pipe makes this a garden of delight. Intense waterproofing in three different layers has been critically used to avoid leakage. Hollow sandstone flooring, grass growing in the crevices, open to sky shower and a few trees framing the view of the house helps to achieve the feel of a garden touching the sea.

As the garden grows, so does the gardner...To start off with creating your private green life on your terrace or balcony, watch out for the sunlight pattern, the indirect light, the wind directions, light weight plants and local waterproofing solutions. Make a mental note of how you would like to use the space, how you would like to dress it up and you are good to go.

An urban gardening is a mix of design, entertaining, leisure and the indulgence of a green life within the metropolitan fabric. So however big or small, with the open space that you have, you could make good a lovely hanging garden in the sky.

Note:
You could write to us at teamatpatterninchaos@gmail.com if you need any further help in designing your green life. If you want to know more about the responsive designs that I have shared with you, log onto http://thewhiteroom.co.in/ to chat with Ar. Nitin Barchha.
Hope you would soon take the step forward to walk the green mile :-).

As I dig into the world of creativity and comb through maze of upcoming talents, I find many a Howard Roark, working relentlessly with the sole focus of creating stimulating works of art.

Recently I was quite delighted to discover the works of 'Concept Art' who deal in original 3D art forms and large scale murals. This is an art studio run by the artist duo Mahesh Jagtap and Aarti Badamikar. They are both alumni of Sir JJ School of Arts and Aarti has further pursued her masters at NID. Their concept of a 3D mural designed out of E waste, for the Hinduja office space in Bangalore, grabbed my interest and was pleasantly surprised when I landed at their workshop. Apart from the duo a collaborative team of talented artists were sweating out, argon-welding stainless steel spheres with slender pipes, to meet with their deadline of a commissioned work named 'Connecting the Dots' for the same corporate house.

Unique to their dedication to art and constant aspiration to be not labelled as mass producer of artworks, the team works towards diverse innovative art forms. Gigantic murals is one of their forte. One of their pioneering mural work is, the larger than life, tropical themed mosaic at the IBNII Spa resort in Coorg, Karnataka. Mosiac tiles were meticulously cut according to form and colour blending was conducted for the chiaroscuro effect that added dimension to the elements. Not only was attention paid to colour but tile placement was done creatively to achieve the scatter of the sun-rays and the ripple of the water body. Another remarkable mosaic is a human portrait that has been attained with the perfection of skin tone and face cut bringing out the cohesive whole in the art form.

The team with eclectic energy loves to take in challenges of all facets of art. Their exploration and creative spectrum ranges from paintings, sculptures murals and installations. This has just been their beginning and they do not want to restrain their horizon. They want to add to their artistic skills experimental space decor, ingenious design-gifting, art restoration and even unusual art material. A peak into some of their innovatory work can set the pace to imagine what this bunch of art enthusiasts can achieve with the apt opportunity to display their zest.

It goes without saying that the creative exuberance at the art studio has a buoyant vivacity which is infectious and entices you to join in the studio fun. Having fun while we work is their motto as they ready themselves to every creative challenge that gets their adrenaline shooting.

I sign off today with a smile for having met such effervescent artists and hope that only the sky will be the limit for these creative dynamites.

Note
If you want to know more about this art team you would want to log onto http://www.conceptart.in

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