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‘A house with a garden’ is an age-old construct – something that features very fundamentally in a range of set-ups from kindergarteners’ drawings and LEGO builds to sophisticated home designs and millionaire’s mansions. There seems nothing left to think about, really, as to how the garden would be laid out vis-à-vis the house – in front of it or at the back, going around it or as a courtyard/ atrium within it, or as a green roof these days, if you may? Well, these two houses in Japan and Singapore challenge that very conventional notion by rephrasing the relationship between garden and house, for whatever reasons, to present residential experiences that are close to ethereal.

Proposed to be situated near the 100 year old Patna Museum and along the Bailey Road in Patna, the site for The Bihar Museum offered 13.3 acres of land along with low scale buildings and a prominence of trees around it. Observing the context around, the designers decided to create a “campus-like” museum instead of a conventional structure. 

You begin by noticing the charming combination of various coloured yarn. Then, you appreciate the fine weave that results in such an eye-catching fabric. The knit and purl that come together to create such delicate beauties seem to be the deft work of nimble hands, And, sometimes, the hands themselves can be seen frozen at work to become one with the creation. Are those caps and socks, or are these coats or shawls with such a fine fall of the fabric? Hey, no, wait!! That’s GLASS!

With every effort being made to introduce greens into the urban concrete-scape after having exploitatively consumed much of the land which used to be green to begin with, this realm of urban greening activity is turning out to be the current laboratory of the most interesting experimentation. The compulsion to ‘live’ in cities that are critically gasping has citizens turning for green solutions to spatial designers who, in turn, are looking to plant greens on every conceivable surface, be it wall, roof or floor.

The future of design and production has more or less been hijacked by 3D printing technology. This method of additive manufacturing (as it is also called) is proving to be so hugely advantageous on so many counts that it is getting adapted into a variety of industries ranging from construction and rocket building to food and confectionary. There is little to be imagined  about the extent of the impact of 3D printing is likely to have on the design industry, with inroads made in the realm of furniture design already altering the visuals of the shape of things to come. Interestingly, it is the chair, the seat that has caught the initial focus of 3D printing trials with many designs and prototypes already produced, making it the crystal ball that shows how the future is going to look.