A terrace yard on the 20th floor of a high-rise building has been transformed by displaying a mural of a famous Italian garden path, permanently laminated in DigiGlass.
"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, also symbolising the client's love of travel."
Graphic artist, Andrew Hogg, together with DigiGlass, printed the image onto a special interlayer, using inks that optimise image quality and light fastness. The interlayer was then embedded between two 5 mm thick clear toughened glass panels.
Nine separate glass panels were used to create the corner glass panorama which is 2.5m by 10.8m wide. Installed along two adjacent walls in a corner on the terrace, different panels widths were required to match existing wall dimensions. The glass panels were glued to the existing wall and aligned within an existing top channel and an added bottom channel.
The panels replaced an existing heavy dark stone fascia that had been dropping off from the wall surface due to adhesive failure.
Eleven olive trees have been placed on the terrace to add to the strong visual garden setting.
