A large glass mural depicting a famous Italian garden is behind the transformation of a south Melbourne apartmant terrace.
Located on the 20th floor of a high rise building, the terrace renovation was developed as an ‘artscape’ in lieu of a traditional landscape design project.
It was important to the client that the design approach taken retained the maximum amount of usable space on the terrace and did not block or detract from their views of the Shrine of Remembrance.
"A primary requirement for the final image was a sense of depth to increase the feeling of space on the terrace," says Jim Sinatra of Sinatra Murphy, who specialise in traditional landscaping as well as public art. "The Boboli Garden Path at the Pitti Palace in Florence, Italy, was chosen for this reason as well as symbolising the client’s love of travel."
Graphic artist Andrew Hogg and Jim edited the image which DigiGlass printed onto a special interlayer using inks that optimise image quality and light fastness. The interlayer is embedded between two 5 mm thick clear toughened glass panels.
In total, nine separate glass panels were used to create the glass mural, which is 2.3m tall by 10.8m. Installed along two adjacent walls extending from a corner on the terrace, different panel widths were required to match existing wall dimensions.
Delivered in their complete forms by DigiGlass, the glass panels were glued to the existing wall and aligned within an existing top channel and an added bottom channel.
The garden setting provided by the recreation of the Boboli Garden Path has been reinforced by the addition of 11 new olive trees.
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