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Gated villa community concept for Ankura Homes LLP

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Ankura design

A climate-responsive, human-centric, nature-integrated neighbourhood — planned around what the boundary, the road and the sun had already decided.

Zen garden with raked gravel, moss-covered boulders and bonsai
Zen garden · nature, integrated
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Site & Concept

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The plan reads what the boundary, the road and the sun have already decided — and then organises around them.

Aerial site plan of the Ankura villa community

Site plan · aerial view

Colour master plan of the Ankura villa community with legend

Master layout · 21′ north road to south-east green edge

  1. 01Entry court — primary arrival off the 21′ north road.
  2. 02Clubhouse, pool & play — shared life met before any house.
  3. 03Clubhouse road — western spine feeding the western blocks.
  4. 04Central green — walking track, OAT, tennis court, dense canopy.
  5. 05Villa blocks — two plot modules on a north–south grid.
  6. 06Second entry — north-east gate, arrival and service relief.
  7. 07Green edge — planted buffer along the south-east boundary.
Perspective of the villa street set into continuous landscape

The street — villas set into a continuous landscape, shaded and walkable

01Arrive through amenity

Clubhouse, pool and play court sit at the first gate — the community, not a barrier, greets you.

02Hold a green heart

A linear green carries the walking track, OAT and tennis court within reach of every block.

03Order, then variation

Two plot modules on a north–south grid: one villa section, resolved well and repeated.

04Soften the boundary

The irregular south-east edge becomes a planted buffer instead of leftover land.

Site analysis diagram: access points, points of interest, grid-iron layout, sun path and zoning

Site analysis · Singapuram, Shankarpally

Zoning diagram: community club zone, central park and recreation, and residential plot categories

Zoning diagram

Diagram of the site's spatial order: primary and secondary spines, entry nodes and walking track

Concept 01 · a clear spatial order

Diagram of amenities and green pockets across the site: clubhouse, entries, active and passive open spaces

Concept 02 · amenities and green pockets

Area statement

Net site area 17.09 acres · 100%
ContentSq. ydsSq. mtsAcre%
Total site area85,78471,72617.72—
Road affected area3,0622,5600.63—
Net site area82,72269,16617.09100
Plotted area46,10038,5459.5255.73
Roads area23,70619,8214.928.66
Amenities (indoor)3,0902,5840.643.74
Central park (outdoor amenities, gardens)3,7003,0940.764.47
Green spaces6,1265,1221.277.4

How the net site is used

  • Plotted area55.73%
  • Roads28.66%
  • Central park4.47%
  • Green spaces7.4%
  • Amenities3.74%

Just under sixteen percent of the net site is held as central park, green space and shared amenity — before counting the planted buffer along the south-east boundary or the setbacks inside each plot.

02

Form Development

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The villa is not added to the plot — it is what remains once climate, function and context have each taken what they need.

Stage 1: Primary volumetric mass Stage 2: Volume deconstruction Stage 3: Creating voids and balancing mass Stage 4: Layering facade elements Stage 5: Adding greenery and sunshades Stage 6: Final schematic form

Massing development · six stages, from primary volume to final schematic form

03

Climate, Light & Landscape

Sheet 03 of 04

Every degree of comfort taken from the form is a degree the equipment never has to supply.

Section sketch showing daylight and cross-ventilation strategy for comfort

Comfort before machines

Light is admitted from the north and shaded at the east, so the house is bright without being hot. The cascading double height lets warm air climb to the skylight and leave, while balconies set behind the face keep every level in visual contact with the room below.

Section sketch showing the indoor courtyard skylight distributing daylight through the house

Light as a building material

The indoor courtyard skylight drops daylight through the core of the house and the courtyard spreads it sideways, so the deepest rooms are lit without a west-facing window. Entry and dining sit at grade; bedrooms stack behind; the open middle keeps the household within sight and earshot across all three floors.

Rendered view of the indoor courtyard, planted and open to the sky

The indoor courtyard

A planted room at the centre of the house, open to the sky and to the floor above — neither inside nor out.

Rendered view of the light well and stair, framed by planting

The light well

Circulation doubles as the daylight shaft; green arrives on every level.

The residences

Park and receive at grade. Live and gather in the middle. Sleep at the top.

Two plot modules, each resolved across three levels, with the courtyard cutting through all of them. Select any plate to enlarge.

Villa street elevation, rain-washed evening light
Villa front facade, symmetrical view

Villa elevation · front facade

Rendered under evening light, the street reads as one continuous facade — stone, timber and plaster layered together, softened by planting at every level.

  • Textured stone panels set against smooth white plaster
  • Balconies and planters layered at every floor
  • Timber screens turning openings into shaded rooms
  • Palms and ground planting softening the street edge
  • What you see here is what gets built
Villa corner elevation with palm and street

The amenities

A Miyawaki forest at the centre, amenities woven through it.

Native saplings are planted dense and layered — canopy, sub-canopy, shrub and ground cover together — so the forest grows up to ten times faster than a conventional plantation and needs watering for only its first two to three years. Within a decade the ground closes into a self-sustaining, multi-layered forest that the community's amenities sit inside, rather than beside.

Circular stone amphitheatre under tree canopy

Amphi-theatre

A circular stone amphitheatre folded into the tree canopy, built for gathering under open sky.

Timber play structures under tree canopy

Kids Play Area

Timber play structures set beneath mature canopy, within sight of the surrounding homes.

Open air theatre with timber stage and sail canopy

Open Air Theatre

A sail-shaded timber stage and stone seating for evenings under the trees.

Thatched timber pavilion with circular seating

Pavilion

A thatched, timber-columned pavilion holding shaded, circular seating for informal gathering.

Rock garden with boulders, seating and water

Rock Garden

Boulders, water and planting folded into quiet seating pockets along the path.

Tennis court framed by palms

Tennis Court

A full-sized court set behind palms, screened from the villas it serves.

Stone walking trail through flowering planting

Walking Trails

Stone paths threading through dense, flowering planting between the villa blocks.

Stone water cascade feeding a swimming pool

Water Cascade & Swimming Pool

A tiered stone cascade feeds an infinity-edge pool beside the clubhouse.

Zen garden with raked gravel and bonsai

Zen Garden

Raked gravel, moss-covered stone and bonsai — a still counterpoint to the community's active spaces.

Clubhouse exterior at dusk

Clubhouse

The community's front door — stone, timber and glass meeting at the first gate.

04

Community & Identity

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A community is finished when people stop noticing the design and start noticing each other.

Aerial concept sketch of the central park and shared amenities

The central park · where the community gathers

The green heart of the plan — amphitheatre, pavilion and walking track gathered beneath a shared canopy, a few minutes' walk from every villa. This is where the community's shared life happens: morning walks, evening gatherings, and everything between.

Sketch of a shaded courtyard street between villas, with residents relaxing and children playing

The life between houses

Shared green, shaded pedestrian routes, play areas within sight of homes and informal seating. The unplanned encounter — not the clubhouse — is the true unit of community.

Diagram of the journey from entry through community, villa and courtyard to garden

The journey in

Entry → community → villa → courtyard → garden. Vehicular and pedestrian movement are ranked; every step inward is one degree quieter.

Diagram of sightlines between villa blocks, staggered so no room looks directly into another

Seen, unseen

Views are aimed at green and open space, landscape and built form buffer the gap between villas, and openings are staggered so no room looks directly into another.

Material palette board: stone cladding, timber screens, exposed concrete, plaster and glass

One language, many sentences

Stone cladding, timber screens, exposed concrete, plaster and glass — a single palette recombined villa by villa, so the street reads as one family of buildings rather than one repeated.

Sketches of the entry gate, arrival sequence, shared pool terrace and material palette

A place that remembers itself

A distinct arrival sets the proportion, material and scale of everything behind it. Local context and culture, memorable shared places, landscape and material working as one.

Icon grid of sustainability strategies: rainwater harvesting, solar panels, native planting, passive cooling and more

Ordinary, not exceptional

Rainwater harvesting, solar-ready roofs, native planting, passive cooling and water-sensitive surfaces. The building does the work; the systems only finish it.

The views

The street under canopy, at eye level.

Stills from the walkthrough film — the courtyard rooms, the material palette and the life between the houses.

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The full walkthrough

Every room, every court, in one continuous take.

The complete render, from arrival to the last courtyard.