Farmhouses, villas and houses on the larger plots along the airport corridor — where siting still decides the design.
Devanahalli is where Bangalore still has land. Plots are larger, the density is low, and a good number of the houses built here are second homes, weekend houses and farmhouses rather than daily residences.
That changes the work. On a large plot the site offers no resistance at all, so nothing is decided for you. Where the building stands, which way it faces and what you choose to leave untouched become the design, and everything after that is detail.
Working or leisure land with a house on it, the relationship between the two planned rather than assumed.
Where the plot allows a house to spread rather than stack.
Designed for a house that is sometimes empty — security, low maintenance, services that survive being switched off.
Stays and retreats, where the guest experience is the brief.
On open land the single most valuable decision is where the building stands. Fifteen metres one way can mean a view, morning light in the right rooms and a shorter approach road; the same fifteen metres the other way can cost all three. That is why we walk the land before drawing anything, usually more than once and at different times of day.
On the outskirts, what a plot is classified as governs what may be built on it, and that is a question for your advocate and the local authority before design begins — not a detail to resolve later. We will tell you what needs verifying and by whom. See also the plot checklist.
