Light

Every principal room faces north-east.
Bangalore's afternoon sun is the thing to design against, not for. Turning the long face of the building away from it means the living rooms hold morning light for four hours and never need a blind.

A building is a set of decisions about light, air, distance and privacy. Four of ours are worth explaining, because they are the ones you will feel every day and never see on a brochure.

Every principal room faces north-east.
Bangalore's afternoon sun is the thing to design against, not for. Turning the long face of the building away from it means the living rooms hold morning light for four hours and never need a blind.

Three point four metres, floor to floor.
Half a metre more than the code requires, which sounds like nothing until you stand in it. It is the difference between a ceiling you notice and one you do not.

No residence looks into another.
The plan is set out so that no balcony faces a neighbour's glazing, and the lift opens into your own lobby rather than a shared corridor.

Sixty-eight per cent of the site is left as ground.
Not podium, not deck — ground, with the original rain trees still rooted in it. A tower is the only way to build this densely and still leave that much of a site alone.








You arrive under the trees, not under a porte-cochère.

The largest volume in the plan, opening the full width of its glazing onto the balcony. Nothing structural crosses it, so the furniture arrangement is genuinely open.
Carpet area is measured to the inside face of the wall and includes the balcony, in line with the RERA definition. Built-up and super built-up figures are on the price sheet, and we will walk you through the difference at the site office.
Straight run north on the elevated tollway.








A 25-metre lap pool on the podium, shaded from the west by the tower itself.










Aurelia has completed eleven buildings in seventeen years. That is a deliberately small number. We take one site at a time, keep the architects on it through construction, and hand over when it is finished rather than when the quarter ends.
Eleven projects since 2009. We have turned down more land than we have bought, because a second site always costs the first one its attention.
The practice that draws the building stays on it until the last snag is closed. No value-engineering pass ever happens without them in the room.
Stone, lime, timber, board-formed concrete. Nothing that needs to look new to look right, because nothing stays new.
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2009
Fourteen apartments on a quarter-acre plot, sold before the roof went on.

2014
We stopped tendering design and brought the architects onto the build contract instead.
2019
Our first house on water, and the first time we kept a site's trees at the cost of a floor plate.

2023
Handed over four months early, with the orchard intact and the pool in the gap between the two oldest trees.

2025
Two acres in Sadashivanagar. Thirty-two floors, and sixty-eight per cent of the site left as ground.
2026
Structure topped out in March. Fit-out through the year, handover from the fourth quarter.

“We went to eleven site visits across the city. This was the only one where the person showing us round could answer a question about the slab without calling someone.”


The plan will tell you the dimensions. Only the room will tell you what 3.4 metres of ceiling and four hours of morning light actually feel like.