Footprints

Design

FootPrints is the first phase of development at Malhar. Spread over 7 acres, this community has been kept free of vehicular movement, with homes arranged around a network of streets and landscaped courtyards. This offers many advantages to you as a homeowner, while ensuring that your car is within a short walk from your home. Firstly, the cluster spaces and interconnecting streets are exclusively pedestrian, offering a safe place for residents to walk and children to play. Secondly, the reduction of surface roads allows for more green areas and ensures that the overall character of the layout is more human in scale. Finally, the absence of a car park results in the plots being economical in size, leading to more usable spaces and larger private gardens.are exclusively pedestrian, therefore safe for residents to walk and children to play. Secondly, surface roads having been greatly reduced, it allows for more green areas and ensures that the overall character of the layout is more human in scale. Finally, the plots being economical in size, the absence of a car results in more usable spaces and larger private gardens.

Planning

The 96 homes at Footprints are divided into 8 groups of 9-16 plots, each arranged around a cluster park. 3 central parking courts are tucked away beneath neighbourhood parks and service 2-3 such cluster groups each. At the entrance of each group of clusters is a drop-off point with some surface parking for visitors or residents with special needs, beyond which a ramp continues down into the central parking area. Since the layout follows the natural slope of the land, with clusters being a various levels, these parking courts do not  resemble typical basements. They are well lit and ventilated, and connected to the clusters through landscaped courts, sometimes even at the same level.

The Community Club

At the heart of the community is an Amphitheatre and club. Leading off one of the larger parks, through the landscaped amphitheatre, the club will have a well equipped gymnasium, a games room - with a table tennis table and other indoor games, a pool table, a splash pool for kids and a multi purpose hall which leads into an intimate private garden. The multipurpose space may be used by the community for get togethers, yoga, dance and music.  

The adjacent park will have the volleyball court and a childrens' play space.

The Homes

 

Footprints offers a variety of homes that respond to various lifestyles and budgets. Broadly there are four types of houses available: the open plan home, the courtyard  home, the split level home and the corner home; each being available on 3-5 different plot sizes. Depending on the plot, the number of spaces and built area decreases or increases. Apart from the variations in concept and area, each house responds to its unique position in the cluster; with respect to its neighbours and the cluster space, to relative differences in level , its particular directional orientation, or an unusual shape of plot.

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The Open Plan Home

As the name suggests, the spaces within this
house flow seamlessly from the entrance verandah through the living and dining areas to the rear verandah and into the rear garden, creating a sense of spaciousness in an otherwise compact plan. The position of the plot in the layout and proximity to the parks dictates the emphasis on the front or rear garden. The spaces are interconnected with minimum walls, the staircase cut out connecting the first floor to the ground.The larger homes have a study, and\or puja added to them. This home is available in 6 variations Type 1a  to Type 1f.

The Courtyard Home

These houses are designed to be inward looking with internal gardens or courtyards.The living and dining spaces orient to these courts, making this intimate garden space a part of the home. The bedrooms and kitchen orient towards spacious backyards.Some of the smaller homes have interesting open stairs, while the larger ones integrate study spaces. This house is available in three variations Type 2a to Type 2c

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The Split Level Home

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The Corner Home

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Eco - Features

Sustainability drives our design and choice of materials to ensure that you and your environment forge a relationship for life.

• We make a conscious effort to retain much of the existing topography, trees and other features by reducing built footprints and road areas.
• Our designs respond to the climate in their planning and detailing, and the spaces thus created are abundantly lit and ventilated while still being comfortable in extremes of conditions.
• Our homes are efficient, flexible and appear spacious even when compact.
• We use a combination of the modern and the traditional in materials, techniques and details, creating a unique aesthetic that has a global flavour while being  decidedly Indian.
• We integrate traditional crafts into our designs for their inherent value and to promote skilled craftspersons, and always emphasis human resource before material.
• Our choice of material is based on a balance of local availability, efficiency of manufacturing process and durability over time. Natural materials make your homes more comfortable and age beautifully. Wherever possible we use recycled materials and always use resources optimally.
  

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