The living, dining and kitchen are housed in a single level structure at street level in the front, and the bedrooms in a two level structure,placed half a level lower, accessible through half a flight of stairs, either up or down from the living room level, unlike a regular duplex homewhich requires climbing two flights to get from one level to the other. This also makes the entire home appear to be a low and inviting single level home from the street.

Apartments
Challenging the notion that high rise apartments can’t have the same feel as single family homes on the ground, each apartment has its own
private garden with sprinklers and a drip irrigation system, with the gardens cantilevering in alternate directions on consecutive floors in
the single level apartments, and large double height gardens with water bodies and wood decks in the duplex apartments. These terrace
gardens required considerable soil depth to accommodate the landscape design requirements and so, to lighten the structure and to
allow more light to the gardens, the slab below the terrace gardens is curved upwards towards the edge while still providing sufficient
overhang for the interiors of the homes.

Single Level Apartments
The 2,500 sq.ft. single level apartments are “L” shaped in plan, with the living, dining, kitchen and one bedroom opening out onto the
landscaped terrace garden. The apartments are housed in a circular tower, four to a floor, with each unit occupying one quarter of the circle,
ensuring long views from the home, radially outwards and no two apartments looking into each other.

Duplex Apartments
Each 5,924 sq.ft. duplex apartment, has a large 70’ x 14’ double height garden, wood deck and water body, with a glass deck from the family
space at the upper level that allows you to step out and enjoy the garden without cutting off the light to the wood deck below. The water
body running along the outer edge of the garden is also a safety feature, preventing one from getting too close to the edge. All the 4
bedrooms and the family space, living room and kitchen open out onto this large garden.

Clubhouse & Amenities
The clubhouse structure is also designed with a green roof, with overhanging plants acting as the curtain over the peripheral glazing. The
clubhouse includes a heated pool, gym, theatre, library, squash courts, guest suites and cloak rooms.

Windmills of Your Mind
Windmills of Your Mind is designed around the idea of deeply embracing nature and blurring the boundaries between the indoors
and outdoors. From the terrace gardens of each individual apartment and the earth sheltered roofs of the single family homes, to the
landscaped skywalk on the rooftop of the apartment towers, the total horizontal landscaped area in the project is larger than the area of the
land on which the project is built. The exteriors of the buildings, including the 19 storey towers, in exposed concrete and brick, and the
internal roads in black cobblestones, will look better with age and blend with the natural landscape.

Bangalore, often called the silicon valley of India, is a city of start-ups and successful young professionals. The project is designed to house a
community of 405 families from all over the world – global professionals that desire a simple, but high quality contemporary lifestyle. With a total built area of 1.75 million square feet on a 24 acre property that slopes gently towards a small lake, all 405 homes are designed in a manner that almost every space within each home opens out to a garden through large sliding glass panels.

Each home was furnished and fitted out and handed over in a ready-to- occupy condition. The interior layout and design of each home is customised around the functional and lifestyle needs of each family, while maintaining control over the overall design language. This was
made possible through a special proprietary software, eBuild, developed for this purpose – through which good design is made
available to several hundred home buyers. Custom furniture was manufactured through a special production facility set up by the
architects. The design language is clean and modern, yet warm and inviting.

Single Family Homes
The 3756 sq.ft. earth sheltered single family homes have been designed with an “L” shaped plan with the back of the L set against the
neighbouring home, to create a large garden space on the inside of the L, and allowing almost every space in the home to open out, through
large wall to wall sliding glass panels, to this garden.This layout with common walls between two adjacent homes also avoids the cluttered
look of several individual homes in a row.

The curved shell roofs of these homes are covered with a blanket of earth that keeps the homes cooler in summer and warmer in winter
and also helps reduce storm water runoff. Homeowners grow strawberries, tomatoes, green chilies, okra and even papayas and
bananas on these roofs.