A terrace where tinted sunbeams bounce dramatically, facilitating a cinematic celebration with the cultivated landscape design is what Landscape Architect Kalpak Y. Bhave has achieved with the Mirasol terrace, Daman.
When spring is in the air, your under utilised real estate atop a building or garage suddenly looks like the best place for a rooftop garden. In fact, roof top terraces can be so much - a venue for a chic soiree, a private sanctuary or even a space for organic farming.
Landscape Architect Kalpak Y. Bhave had exactly these thoughts in mind and more when he completely transformed a 10,941 sq ft area for Mirasol Terrace, Daman and made it fit to host parties for destination weddings, giving the versatility of roof terraces another new angle.
When it comes to design, as long as the roof can bear the load of furniture, human traffic and plantings – the sky is the very limit. It won’t be wrong to say that roof terraces are like stage sets. They’re typically viewed from a single direction. While one can move around freely in a large garden, these spaces are primarily viewed from one direction.
As a result the space is viewed in tiers. Talking about this aspect of roof gardens, Bhave shares, “When I visited the terrace, the existing roof bothered me. I decided to divert the focus of the visitor to other attractive landscaped elements.” Thus, he created three separate tiers that would be viewed as the terrace at large, the plantings, the landscaped elements and the roof.
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