New villas on private plots, and interiors inside villas somebody else built — two quite different jobs, both done here.
"Villa" covers two opposite situations in Bangalore, and it is worth separating them before anything else.
One is a house you are building on your own plot, where every decision is still open. The other is a villa handed over in a gated development, where the shell is fixed, the elevation belongs to the community and the interior has to carry the whole design. We work on both, and the process is not the same.
Full architecture: siting, orientation, levels, structure, the drawing set and construction. Everything is decided by you and the site.
Interior architecture: re-planning inside the shell, joinery, lighting, material, and whatever the association permits at the façade.
Older villas re-planned for a family that has changed, with the structure assessed first.
Where the plot's outdoor space is part of the brief rather than left over.
Not size. Villas fail in predictable ways: rooms that are generous but unrelated to each other, an entrance that opens straight onto everything, outdoor space that is looked at rather than used, and a first floor that duplicates the ground rather than adding to it.
What fixes them is planning — a clear centre, a route through the house that makes sense, at least one genuinely private outdoor space, and daylight reaching the middle of a deep plan. Those are decisions, not budget.
Most Bangalore villa plots put you within a few metres of a neighbour on two or three sides. Courtyards, internal light wells, high sill levels and careful window placement give you openness without giving up privacy — and they do it better than a boundary wall or a curtain ever will. See the case for courtyards and residential architecture.
