Tips on designing your garden in the sky

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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 :-).


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Lifestyle and Design Hunter. In search of Pattern in Chaos.

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  1. Unknown18 July 2016 at 00:47

    Indeed a very encouraging write up on how to walk the green mile in a concrete city life with planned and well maintained roof top gardens. It directly addresses the need of the green lovers who wish to cultivate the green culture whilst living in vertical Mumbai. Well done. Hope this brings in more momentum to the green cult in the city.

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