A Collective of Garden Thresholds

The project titled ‘ Tota Parimitulu’, which translates to ‘Garden Thresholds’, builds on the ideas that Yona Friedman discusses in his exhibition ‘Architecture without building’, capitalising on the concept of utilising open spaces for activity more than the built. The project envisions most of the activities in open spaces defined as distinctive gardens, and the built here only becomes a threshold that helps one move from one garden to the other, and also serves as a refuge for the design program.

The emphasis is laid on utilizing these thresholds to connect, separate, and help people transition from one program to the other, and serve as effective markers and entrance portals that hold the several functional gardens of the scheme together. The landscape aims to intervene minimally into the existing natural system of undulating terrain and existing trees and tries to build and visualize spaces around it with minimal intervention.

Result: The competition was withdrawn