Sculptural Bamboo Shelter at IFCI tower, New Delhi
Located at the business hub of New Delhi, at Nehru Place where the entire built-up environment is typical RCC high rise structures.
IFCI, has a well maintained and very beautiful huge lawn/green patch above their parking facility. They wanted to participate in the green movement and to support the usage of bamboo as structural as well as aesthetic approach, into main stream built environment. This ideology has been perfect for the location and cause.
Through NMBA (National Mission on Bamboo Applications), got the opportunity to design, develop and execute the "sculptural Bamboo shelter".
The structure is a simple open type structure(with no walls), which has a floral base which compliments to the existing green area. Each side of the structure has seven portals which elevate through the height of the structure and joins each other, thus creating fan type of formation at the sprouting level.
The ground coverage is 600 sq.ft and height is 18 ft. We planted lights at the peripheral ground base to enhance the structure.The roofing is done in layers. The pedestal base anchoring the portals at three locations are half masonry and half left for plants.
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