The Imaginarium was inspired by aerial roots of an ancient tree; it shares significance and spiritual meaning across various cultures, all over the world. In Norse mythology, the Yggdrasil is a mythical tree that connects with Nine Worlds. In India, the Banyan is the same tree under which the Buddha attained Enlightenment.
Whereas we humans tend to express through words and sounds, trees tend to share silence. The idea was to synthesize an environment, very much alive, that would communicate both ways. Inspired by the berries on a banyan tree, ghungroos (tiny bells) were grown out of a labyrinth of aerial roots.  These bells express the rhythms and harmonies of Nature, whilst sharing a silent sway of leaves and branches, invoked by passing winds.
Weighing over half a ton, the sculpture floats gently, without touching the ground. Designed computationally for an open courtyard, it becomes a place of immersive mindfulness parsed in data, music and light.

Since both artists reside in two different regions, a major part of the creative evolution happened through phone-calls, and internet innovation, where structural aspects were designed digitally, before it came to fruition in Ahmedabad. The novelty of the structure is that it is a 'floating' steel gridshell, suspended overhead by sleek tensile cables, instead of having contact and ground support. As columns do not interfere with the overall experience, this invites everyone to walk and interact freely through the 'forest'. In many ways, 'correspondence' associates with and amplifies the project brief: a place whose purpose is to bring different people together.

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