Terrarium is a multidisciplinary firm, specialized in Landscape planning & Urbanism, with headquarters in Goa and an office in Lucknow. We are committed to providing equitable, & healthy spaces through our design solutions.
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CREATING SPACES FOR HEALING body | mind | environment Goa | Lucknow
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MLA - National University of Singapore B.Arch - Goa College of Architecture, Goa Urban Agriculture, Integrating Ecosystem Services, Water Sensitive Urban Design, Contemplative Landscapes, Public participatory design. +91 9158962680 +91 9740541312
MLA - National University of Singapore, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
B.Arch - Manipal University, Manipal
Terrarium is made up of a dedicated group of professional architects and designers committed to excellence. The passionate people who work at Terrarium come from a variety of backgrounds and experiences, with their ideas shaping the direction of the company and ensuring quality and uniqueness.
Design of infrastructure and landscapes for human health and welfare, Sustainable Architecture : Indian Green Building Council (IGBC) AP, Water Sensitive Urban Design.
Mitali Kumar Manasi Prabhudesai
Courtorim Lakes The Urban Terrarium Re-imagining Tower Road Residue in Retrospect Aasha Community Centre Sponge Living POROUS+
URBANISM COMPETITION ACADEMIC
SITE: Tuem Industrial Estate, Goa
Sustainable Industrial Landscape
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Project Centaur Pharmaceuticals, is a unique Industrial landscape project located in Tuem industrial estate in Goa. This project is a combination of sustainable landscape techniques to maintain a low project cost and planting tiered vegetation to deliver esthetically sound tropical industrial landscape. Bioengineered elements such as the 6 m steep slope stabilized with the help of plant roots and bioswale to carry rain water and tank overflows to the rain water harvesting tank are the highlights of this project.
This project adds value to the industrial campus of Unichem Laboratories through Landscape design. A unique balance of Hardscape and Softscape to create meaningful spaces for the employees to wonder and break during the resting hour. The design aims to be sustainable and functional while adding to the aesthetic values of the surrounding. The plants selected are native and tropical.
Tendoli Farms is a 20 Acres property Located in Kudal, Maharashtra. In this project our focus was to design a sustainable agricultural practice along with interconnected water systems to meet the agricultural needs. We used aboriginal planting techniques with the help of the local community. We created an interdependent agricultural program that engaged the local community in seasonal fruit picking and provided them with sufficient livelihood. Parts of the farm were designed as grassland for the local cattle to graze on. Farm house made of locally available laterite stone was designed for the owners to suit the hot and dry climate of the region.
Promoting symbiotic relationship between man and nature
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Tendoli Farms
Hugely influenced by contemporary Balinese architecture the design combines traditional Balinese aesthetic principles, the island’s abundance of natural materials and famous artistry and craftsmanship of its people. These Balinese gardens are planned in a natural tropical style filled with tropical decorative plants in harmony with the environment. The elements of smell, taste, hearing, touch and sight are integrated together to create a space which stimulates the senses of the user; offering a rich therapeutic experience.
The design intends to integrate 4000 Sq. M of Teakwood forest to form a space of education and play for the community of Loutolim while maintaining the local indiginious activities of the nearby communities. The Learning Forest features a series of bioengineered and water retention techniques that allow the visitors to explore habitats ranging from Dry summer Grassland (Plateau vegetation) to Moist mixed deciduous forests. The forest comprises the majority of Teak trees, followed by wild palms and different forest species. Driven by the communities insights and activities the design activates sites ecology and creates interesting new spaces that build social infrastructure and fosters contemplativeness to heal.
Near Varca Beach, Goa
Lemon Tree Premier Resort
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Aquamarine resort is located near the coastal belt of Goa. The design focuses on landscapes of transition. The project was inspired by the uniqueness of the site surroundings: the raw lush greenery of the village & fresh water streams crippling around the site to soft coastal landscape. The design curates a landscape that adds to the beauty of the resort, while being sensitive to the local context. Hardscape features; such as the submerged poolside bar, poolside façade, integrated with Mediterranean Landscape Elements aims to create a serene environment to enhance the visitor experience.
SJVN Landscape Beautification
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The project was a collaborative effort with the architects from DCPL Chandigarh for Landscape Beautification of The Hydroelectricity generator SJVN’s office campus in Shimla. The landscape offers a biophilic escapade for the office goes to enhance their wellbeing while minimizing underutilized and concertized surfaces like retaining walls and transport network; creating a cascading Hanging Garden, adorning the hills of Shimla.
Mandopa, Goa
Springfield Mansion
Springfield Mansion is a 1200 Sq M residence located in Mandopa- Goa, with the landscape scope of 470 sq.m.; Currently a mundane & unplanned open space. Our aim in this project was to showcase how a residential garden can amplify outdoor experience and foster high intensity habitats. For enhancing the diversity we have carefully crafted a palette of plants and soil to attract a great variety of native birds and pollinators.
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Designed as a collaboration project with S Lab, the resort is visualized as a place for solace amidst the busy city life in Bhopal. The design was formulated such that Biophillic elements - namely nature in the form of plants and water integrated all through the resort. The landscape palette is carefully formulated based on site specific conditions - with a vast selection of indoor plants - to bring the feel of outdoors indoors, and heat + rain tolerant outdoor plants, to cope with the changing climate of Bhopal.
Indoor Plants Bioswale
Lotus Pond
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As a collaborative proposal with Terra Hydraotech Solutions our project aimed to design and build sustainable & resilient water infrastructure for the village of Curtorim. Along with resiliency we planned to generate a comprehensive water management plan combined with landscape plan, low impact development facilities using locally available methods and techniques which preserve the beautiful nature of Curtorim further creating outstanding community spaces for the people of Curtorim.
Panaji, Goa Design Intent
Our team prepared research and WSUD solutions as a proposal to the Mayor for tackling rising issues of urban floods in Panaji City. Proposal introduces integrated grey and blue-green solutions that are cost-efficient, scalable and offer a multitude of ecosystem benefits to manage urban floods; that require urgent transitions to meet current and future urban flooding challenges in Panaji.
Campal Road St. Inez Creek Patto
*TOP 50- House 2.0 Competition by Archdais*
“The Urban Terrarium” is located amidst courtyard houses of Narahi, in the city of Lucknow. Situated on a 300 sq.m. size plot, the house caters to a middle-income family of 6 people. The project is envisioned as a self-sustaining micro-ecosystem or a ‘patch’ of the larger yet now inaccessible + disconnected urban ecosystem of Lucknow; as a vernacular; yet sustainable space that is Flexible, Transformable and Contemplative.
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Dharavi, Mumbai
Let your hopes , shape your future *TOP 50- The Dharavi Project Competition by Archdais*
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The idea is to utilize Dharavi’s resilient social capital in making the place for the people to create a space that is their own. The building becomes a showcase of their work involving the local artisans in the planning process to foster a vibrant community space. The communal space is not just a structure for economic and social activities. It is also a canvas for the community to showcase their skill, be it in Art, Science, or Technology.
Tower Road, Ithaca, NY
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Located in the Cornell Campus, Ithaca, New York - the idea behind the design was to enhance the planting plot as a visual backdrop for the adjacent field and to revamp experience of the pedestrians along the sidewalk as a flowing + seamless landscape of small shrubs and grasses ranging in colors white, purple and pink with occasional bursts of yellow and blue. The ground cover serves as defining edge with selected species having a striking green color.
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Site: District 4, KHI, JAKARTA
Coastal cities like Bekasi are in constant ecological flux, with global factors like rising sea levels making it essential to integrate vernacular and resilient design strategies in the region. The project looks at residue; namely sediment, and waste, individually considered as issues in the region, as the tools for sustainable development.
Academic Project, Design by: Mitali Kumar
The district that the intervention aims to reform is District 4: being located at low lying areas, would be the first district in KHI to be impacted.
The master plan aims to interlink the green and blue networks to offer a resilient landscape for the future developments. 1st phase of development being the creation of the water network to handle flooding and enhance sediment flow by using a network of canals and flood rooms connected to treatment and collection nodes (No. 5) Residential canals being connected via overflow passages (no 7) to the main canal and river, with the paddy fields being retained in the periphery to serve as collection zones for flood waters.
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This will be followed by activating the green nodes: the primary attractions being the wetland park and the landfill parks (no 1 and 3) he site will have several waste collection and compost nodes marked in yellow with 5 min walking distances from the neighborhood. And the residential canals will be lined with urban green making nature readily accessible. Towards the bay (no 5)– the dune landscape will house mangroves and oysters. The blue and green network can then be followed by the urban development for the community to reside in a well-functioning landscape.
Site: District 2, KHI, JAKARTA
“Sponge Living” is a subtle approach to urban development that celebrates social structure, context and relationship of people of Indonesia with nature. This vision cultivates within the context of a developing region, Kota Harapan Indah. The planning examines the relationship between community and infrastructure to develop a new model of water network, interwoven with social network and design need based landscape to tap into existing ecological and infrastructural pattern. Social capital is a key to communitybased hazard response.
Flood basin Terraced Agroscapes
Flood Resilient Green Space
