New Delhi, Feb. 10 -- A spiral structure comes into view in the middle of Sunder Nursery. The chaos of the traffic leading up to this heritage neighbourhood in Delhi gets left behind as you approach the pavilion. Sacred Nature, designed to invoke the essence of ancient sacred groves, lies at the intersection of architecture and conservation. A canopy of indigenous plants such as jasmine, neem, tulsi and bakul rests on a textured outer shell of repurposed lantana wood. Roughly covering a bounding box area of 600 sq. metres, with an inner built area of around 250 sq. metres, Sacred Nature is the inaugural pavilion by Aranyani, a conservation and creative arts initiative by environmental conservationist Tara Lal. It has been conceptualised i...