Thursday, 13 December 2012

Designing interactive Landscape for roundabouts



I thought of sharing this. Sometimes we design amazing architectural landscapes for challenging spaces like Traffic islands; roundabouts etc., when we think of such places, instantly what comes to our mind are words like Safety, sit-outs, maintenance of place and safe movements for pedestrians.

Things to keep in mind:

1. Study transportation and traffic movements - if required sort out safe movements.
2. Take pedestrians till the safe zone within protected area
3. Play of water and color for landscape/lighting
4. Textures of finishes
5. Height restrictions of elements of design and plants
6. Focal points for design
7. Most importantly scale and proportions
8. Safe Approach

Image above is an example of the same downloaded from some good website.
Below image is my own creation that keeps in mind list above.
I got good design commendation for the same.


Further to this I share internal courtyard done for a corporate office keeping it simple and serving as 'Think tank ' and for refreshing 'breaks' from work environment.

Its a 'Space within a Space '.



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