Landscape of India Maturing Phase Deepika

Landscape of India
Maturing Phase
Works of Akshay Kaul ,Mohan Rao and others…
MATURING PHASE
• In the last few years the graduates of eighty’s, and of the

ninety’s have been able to establish successful and busy
landscape practices, and have certainly contributed to
recognition of the profession.
• Increasing recognition of future potential and substantial
evolution of the landscape profession.
• Environmental benefits of designed public open space started to
be marketed.
• Urban development decisions proceed from the assumption
that city environments can function effectively by having to be
either environmentally pleasant or to possess even a minimal
aesthetic quality.
• Re-look at the role of Landscape architects, as someone en par
with that of the planners, architects, or urban design experts.
Akshay Kaul
• Education : Master’s degree in landscape

architecture from College of Environmental
Science and Forestry
• Specialisation: Landscape architecture
and ecological planning .Rainwater
harvesting and waste water management
and its integration in landscape design,
Sustainable Architecture Provide Services.
• National &International Awards: Won
Living Design City Competition Award for
Sustainable Cities 2011. Won International
Competition Design for South Asian
University. Won Master Planning
Competition -Institute of Public Health &
Management ,Gandhi Nagar
Akshay Kaul’s Idealogy PROJECTS IN SOUTH
INDIA
• Akshay Kaul has been trying hard to strive that
fine balance by addressing environmental SHREYAS YOGA
concerns, culture and aesthetics through RETREAT
BANGALORE
ecological planning and landscape designing.
• Bringing plants from Ayurveda into mainstream
landscape architecture -use of medicinal and WELLNESS
aromatic plants, encouraging site to be non- CENTRE ,
HYDERABAD
toxic and pesticide-free with use of only green
and organic manure.
• very site intensive and research oriented SOUTH ASIAN
UNIVERSITY
approach. MAIDAN GARHI
• Extensive research on "planting palette. NEW DELHI
• The firm’s main idea is to preserve that is
unique, restore that is degraded and enhance
SADHIKA
the quality of landscape through adopting the RESIDENCE
natural processes and systems on site.
SHREYAS YOGA RETREAT BANGLORE-
• It is spread over 25 acres and is one of
the first large projects completed
almost 10 years back.
• It has a dedicated 5 acres for organic
farming and only 25 people can stay at
a time at this Yoga Retreat.
• This is one of the first projects were
they tried water conservation,
introduced native and medicinal plants
and created bio-swales, ponds for
recharging ground water and a low
intensive landscape.
• It is visited by people from all over the
world and has been reviewed as of one
the top five yoga destination
worldwide.
SHREYAS RETREAT • The concept of community plays a big part at
Shreyas and most of the staff live on site so that it feels as if
everyone is on the same journey.
• Scattered among the lush greenery of palms and aromatic fig trees
are smart tented cottages with showers opening onto private
terraces.
• An infinity pool lined with sun beds is at the centre of the main
courtyard.
• Rated as one of the finest Yoga retreats in the world, Shreyas is an
exclusive boutique property that caters to a maximum of 25 guests
in a luxurious and serene environment.
• Shreyas offers Yoga & meditation sessions, Gourmet organic
vegetarian cuisine, Nature farming, Community service and
Voluntourism, Ayurveda & Spa treatments, cooking classes, etc.
round the year.
WELLNESS CENTRE , HYDERABAD
• This is an on-going Yoga and Wellness Health Resort in Hyderabad.
• All the buildings will be made in stabilized mud bricks and will address all issues of sustainable design.
• Like in most of their projects this will have water gardens designed created through harvesting rainwater, waste
water landscape gardens, agrarian organic landscape, a forest envelope all around and only single storey
buildings.
• This is one of the first projects were landscape will be done like a forest and will be done before the buildings
come up.
SOUTH ASIAN UNIVERSITY MAIDAN GARHI NEW DELHI
• This was an International Urban Design Competition open to all SAARC nations that they won as a team in
association WithArchiplan Pvt Ltd (Nepal) and Abrd Architects, March 2011.
• At present, they are working on the design of the almost 100 acre campus in Maidan Garhi, Delhi.
• This project is one of the most prestigious campus design projects in India set up as a commitment to the United
Nations by Government of India.
• It is proposed that every drop of rainwater will be harvested, waste water will be treated in landscape, native
plants will be re-introduced and a small forest habit as a central green space will be created
c akshay kaul and asso
Sadhika Farm - Residential Landscape – India
• This is a residential project on an one acre lot
with a joint family already living on it.
• They worked with the limitation of existing
structure of the earlier landscape and
enhanced it.
• The landscape celebrates and integrates
rainwater harvesting and solves all issues of
drainage and recharges every drop of water
that falls in the garden.
• Waste water is treated in the garden reused in
the agrarian landscape. They worked with
stone crafts people to bring the stone crafts
into the Indian Landscape as paving material,
as screens/jallis in the garden and building.
• Area of the lawn is minimized, naturalized or
native shrubs are planted, lighting forms an
important part of the landscape.
Mohan S Rao.
• Landscape Architect from the SPA, Delhi and the
Founder of INDE (1994). He leads the design team of
all projects and his involvement extends from Master
Planning to schematic design through construction
detailing.
• He is an active participant in the public forum of
sustainable design and development issues.
• He is the only landscape architect from India,
recognized with an international award.
• He wanted to explore how to design cities with
sustainable water management.
• On this quest, in Hampi, India, Rao uncovered a
reservoir system dating to the Hindu empire of
ancient Vijayanagra, circa 1000AD, that had sustained
a population of half million (five lakhs) people for
hundreds of years with very little rainfall.
• With the help of the Architectural Survey of India, Mohan Rao
Rao’s work in Hampi has provided much needed Principal Designer, Partner, Integrated Design
models for water supply management in the
development of cities and urban complexes around
the globe.
Institutional Campus
InDe’s approach the
design and development
of several large and small
scales instituitional
campuses with a focus
largeley based on
equating the functional
demands within
landscape planning
measures. Within each
given context the
approach is primarily
driven by strengthening
natural systems to
integrate built and the
non built components of
the campus.
Residential spaces
The approach of the firm to residential spaces /
large scale farm houses has primarily been to
reinterpret the natural landscape formations and
contextualize them based on site conditions to
situate programmatic needs.
Terra Firma
• Founded in 1985 by Rohit and Vandana Marol, Terra Firma
was one of the pioneers in Landscape Architecture in
Bangalore.
• With offices in Bangalore and Chennai, the studio is now
led by Rohit Marol, recipient of a Master’s degree in
Landscape Architecture from the School of Planning and
Architecture, New Delhi, and is supported by a
multidisciplinary team of over 40 dedicated professionals.
• The Terra Firma team has extensive experience in
designing and implementing landscapes for a wide variety
of sectors: hospitality, corporate, retail, institutional,
public, residential and group housing.
• Their designs place an emphasis on environmental
sensitivity, usually working closely with the existing
natural landscape of the site, and incorporating native
materials.
• Their design solutions are custom-tailored to each project,
and we strive to exceed the client’s expectations.
Awards- Eureka Forbes, Bangalore Special Mention,
A+DArchitecture Spectrum awards, 2004 Brigade Hulkul
Landscape Architect Rohit Marol
Centre, Bangalore. Landscape design.
BRIGADE GATEWAY
• LOCATION : Bangalore
• SIZE: 40 acres
• YEAR: 2012
• A composite development masterplanned by
HOK, NY, with a manmade lake as the anchor for
the entire site.
• The lake area has been designed as an urban
public space.
• The mall opens out into a linear plaza terminating
into an amphitheatre with a boardwalk lining the
lake.
• The office tower opens out into a row of shade
structures meant for relaxation.
• The residential area spills out into a passive
recreational area
• Total mall area: 1.1 million sft (the largest mall in
Bangalore) 4-storey high atrium (28 m high) (91.8
Landscaping across all levels, with plenty of indoor and outdoor seating
Water features to create a beautiful, seamless feel
J.P. PARK
• LOCATION : Bangalore
• SIZE/YEAR : 85 acres, 2007
Situated on a dying lake bed, the landscape
was concerned with rejuvenating a part of the
lake and providing a large breathing space for
the city.
• This green space would also be instrumental

in attracting avifauna back to the city and
providing it with a safe environs within
urban limits
Rock Garden, Here for each zodiac
constellation has a particular plant
-Nakshatra vana,
- Rashi Vana
- Navagraha Vana
4.5-km jogging track

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• In the last few years the graduates of eighty’s, and of the

• Education : Master’s degree in landscape

• This green space would also be instrumental

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