Jain Temple, Bangalore
Temple grounds and approach landscape: circulation for large festival crowds, planting that reads as calm rather than decorative, and a maintenance regime that has to be invisible.
- Client
- Private trust
- Location
- Bengaluru, India
- Period
- Multi-phase
- Sector
- Religious and civic
- Peak load
- Festival-day crowds far above ordinary use
- Palette
- Restrained and evergreen rather than seasonal
- Constraint
- Works scheduled around continuous public access
Scope
- Approach and forecourt landscape
- Circulation edges sized for festival-day crowds
- Restrained, low-maintenance planting palette
- Ongoing horticultural maintenance
Design for the busiest day, maintain for every other one
A temple landscape has two conditions: an ordinary weekday, and a festival day when the crowd is many times larger. Paths, edges and turf all have to be sized for the second while looking correct during the first.
That pushes the palette toward evergreen structure and away from anything that needs replanting on a season. It also pushes the hard edges outward, because the damage on a busy day happens where people step off the path, not on it.
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