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Parimal
Garden
Parimal Garden is one of Ahmedabad’s most beloved public parks — an 8.5-acre green landmark in the heart of Ambawadi that has served the city since 1960. Officially known as Pari Trikamlal Bhogilal Municipal Recreation Park, it was most recently restored in 2021 under UNM Foundation’s PRATITI initiative at a cost of ₹12 crore, reopening to the public in August 2022. The restored garden features over 600 trees of 45 species, 7,500 plants across 125 species, sculpted grass mounds, a central lotus pond, brick chimneys referencing Ahmedabad’s textile heritage, and a bougainvillea arbour.
Associated Lighting’s scope covered the full nocturnal environment of the restored garden — path lighting, tree uplighting, lawn treatment, and accent lighting for the garden’s distinctive landscape features. The brief required luminaires that were architecturally considered — in keeping with the quality of the restoration — while delivering the warmth and approachability of a public garden used by families and walkers every evening.
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Light within
a living garden
The 2021 restoration of Parimal Garden set a high standard for the public realm — over 600 new trees, sculpted grass mounds, a restored bougainvillea arbour, and brick chimneys that reference Ahmedabad’s textile past. The lighting specification had to meet that standard: architecturally considered, warm in character, and precise in execution.
The signature triangular-headed path luminaires — visible throughout the ground-level photography — were selected to bring a considered contemporary presence to the restored garden without competing with its planting. Their geometry reads clearly against the tree canopy at night, marking the path network with quiet architectural precision. The warm light they cast onto the path surface and adjacent planted mounds creates the layered quality visible in the aerial images — pools of warmth that guide movement without flattening the landscape.
Tree uplighting was applied to specimen trees throughout the garden — warm washes that reveal trunk character and canopy structure, turning mature trees into the focal points they deserve to be after dark. The grass mounds, one of the most distinctive landscape elements of the restored garden, were treated with low-angle ground-level washes that reveal their form and the texture of the turf without over-illuminating them.
