Biome Environmental Solutions is a Bangalore-based design firm focused on ecology, architecture and water.
The water-wing of Biome, known as the Rainwater Club has extensive expertise in providing knowledge services in water management and rainwater harvesting, ecological wastewater treatment and sanitation practices.
Biome’s unique capability lies in thinking through the key ecological and social issues in each project. They have extensive working relationships with specialised knowledge experts in bio-diversity, tourism, hydrogeology, and material science, whose contributions are synthesised into a coherent design strategy and plan of action.
As part of the Citizen Science Project, I was approached to create a signboard for Kaikondrahalli Lake in Bangalore, Karnataka. This board focused on communicating statistics and data about the lake, underground water connectivity to other lakes in Bangalore, details of the catchment are and general information about the lake in both Kannada and English.
CLIENT
Biome Environmental Solutions
FUNDED BY
CSR Grant through Oracle
IN COLLABORATION WITH
Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE)
The components of the signboard included:
1. Top view of Kaikondrahalli Lake Map
2. Key/Legend
3. Lake Series and Catchment Area Map
4. Data and statistics about the Lake
Process:
1. All Lake Maps were hand-painted and digitally scanned to scale.
2. All icons of the key/legend were digitally created as vectors.
3. All text was digitally inserted in Kannada and English.
4. The layout of the board was decided based on information-hierarchy.
Kaikondrahalli Lake Map
watercolour, colour-pencil and gouache on paper
A4
Kaikondrahalli Lake Series Map
watercolour, colour-pencil and gouache on paper
A4
The final board was 4 ft by 3 ft in size, printed on vinyl sticker and pasted on an ACP sheet.
The signboard was then mounted on site.
