Office Garden and Landscape Design in Bangalore

Before laying planters or lawn on a terrace we check where the existing rainwater harvesting pipe and filter sit, since BWSSB's rule applies to new construction on plots of 30x40 feet and above and to existing buildings on plots of 60x40 feet and above, and a garden layout that blocks that line has to be redesigned before the corporation will sign off on the connection.

Bangalore's rain arrives in two spells, the southwest monsoon from June to September and a shorter northeast monsoon in October and November, so a terrace drain sized for one heavy spell also has to clear the second, later one without pooling on the slab.

What grows on an office terrace here

Because the city's temperature stays in a comparatively narrow band through the year, an office terrace garden in Bangalore keeps more of its planting usable in every season than one in a city with a harsh summer, so seating areas and lawn patches do not need to be abandoned for two or three months.

The city's own extremes are rare rather than routine: the IMD's record high for Bangalore is 39.2°C, set in April 2016, and most years do not come close to it, so a terrace garden's plant palette here is chosen for the mild, typical range rather than for that outlier day.

Working with what the plot already has

An unused terrace on an older building in a locality like Koramangala or HSR Layout often already has some plant growth, self-seeded or left over from a previous tenant, and our survey notes what is worth keeping before any redesign, rather than clearing the space to a blank slate by default.

On a newer building along the Outer Ring Road, the terrace is usually bare concrete with only the mandatory RWH plumbing already fixed in place, so the design has more freedom in layout but nothing existing to build around.