stories of a journeyman

Oh, what a month.

The second day in Bangalore I met Naresh, a local architect who asked me within the five minutes of our talk: “what d’you wanna do?”

I never asked him, but I’m sure he knew from the first minute we shook hands, where I would end up. “There is a place across the street called Jaaga” he said, “I will introduce you to Freeman, the founder. He is a real free man”.

“Okay, sure” I answered and 10 minutes later I was introduced by this architect to the people at Jaaga as the new guy. There was no questioning, there were only welcomes.

It took me about 3 days to get my own stuff done that I couldn’t do while traveling India and I also needed these 3 days to get into the project and the environment. But after that, I immediately started to create. Why was it so easy, I ask myself now? How could I be so productive within only one month and I mean I have done a lot, better and worse things. But I was able to do what I liked, in all kinds of genres. If it was architecture, graphic in web and print, photography, creating a real thing in front of the screen and also with my own hands, building the building I was working in. It was simply the perfect circumstances for my journeyman short-time employment.

My main job was a project called “the living building” and within that project I
especially worked on a vertical garden including an aquaponics system. I’m gonna write more about that in detail in a later article because it deserves it. I’m very grateful I was introduced to a whole new field of architecture that is foreward thinking in sustainable matters.

But right now, I’m just giving you a glimpse of all the small outcomes during my time at Jaaga…

…a 3d drawing with the actual roof situation and a draft for the vertical and rooftop garden as well as the blue barrel aquaponics system. The short video was part of a presentation to explain the building of Jaaga…

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…a shirt design that represents Jaaga in its environment of Bangalore with lots of typical indian details like cows, dogs, autorickshaws, birds and trains, mixed with lots of trees popping out where you don’t expect trees to appear…















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…some headers for the new website in which I was involved in structural planning and layouting
check it out at www.jaaga.in…

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…a little logo rework for the website…

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…aaaaand some of me working. One of them is posed, I’m not gonna tell which one, but on the other one I cut a barrel fot the compost…

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