{"id":465837,"date":"2026-02-10T12:54:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T12:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/465837\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T12:54:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T12:54:11","slug":"shibanee-kamal-architects-incorporate-gardens-into-home-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/465837\/","title":{"rendered":"Shibanee & Kamal Architects incorporate gardens into home design"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bangalore<\/a>-based studio Shibanee & Kamal Architects<\/a> explains why gardens<\/a> are central to how it designs housing<\/a> projects in one of India’s most densely populated cities, in this exclusive video<\/a> produced by Dezeen.<\/p>\n

Gardens form the starting point for the practice’s residential<\/a> work, shaping everything from layout and massing to how projects are delivered.<\/p>\n

“Every single home that we build has a garden \u2013 if it can’t have a garden, we won’t do it,” the practice told Dezeen in an exclusive video interview.<\/p>\n

\"LostLost in the Greens is among Shibanee & Kamal Architects’s projects in Bangalore<\/p>\n

Working in Bangalore, one of India’s most densely populated cities, the studio has developed a range of spatial strategies to incorporate greenery within constrained urban sites.<\/p>\n

“We tried all different formats,” Kamal Sagar said. “Some are staggered in alternate directions, some are duplexes, some are L-shaped \u2013 and in some cases the gardens are inside the home.”<\/p>\n

\"WindmillsThe studio designed its houses, including Windmills of Your Mind, to incorporate a garden<\/p>\n

Rather than treating gardens as decorative add-ons, the practice positions them as essential to how homes are planned and experienced.<\/p>\n

“The home just doesn’t feel like a home if it doesn’t have a garden,” Kamal said.<\/p>\n

The studio’s approach has also shaped how it delivers projects.<\/p>\n

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After seeing its designs altered when working with third-party developers, Shibanee & Kamal Architects<\/a> took control of the full process by bringing architecture, construction and development under one model through its own construction and development arm, Total Environment<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“When we did the first few designs for developers, [our designs] were changed in a few minutes,” Kamal said. “The only way to make it work is to find a piece of land, then design, build and sell it ourselves. It won’t work any other way.”<\/p>\n

“We are achieving this only because the architects are connected to the construction teams,” added Shibanee. “It’s a very close synergy.”<\/p>\n

\"WindmillsWindmills of Your Mind was managed by the studio through its development arm Total Environment<\/p>\n

The studio pointed to its project Windmills of Your Mind in Bangalore as an example of this approach at scale.<\/p>\n

The high-rise residential development is located in the centre of “India’s Silicon Valley” and incorporates extensive planting throughout the site.<\/p>\n

“At Windmills of Your Mind, we have more green on the land than when we first built the buildings,” Kamal said.<\/p>\n

\"TimeThe studio’s project Time is informed by a longstanding personal relationship with nature<\/p>\n

The practice cited the idea of “timeliness design” as a key measure of success.<\/p>\n

“We’ve seen people living in our homes for 20 years and never feel like changing,” Kamal said.<\/p>\n

The studio’s emphasis on greenery is rooted in a longstanding personal relationship with nature.<\/p>\n

“Those [Enid Blyton] books I read in my childhood, like The Magic Faraway Tree \u2013 I’ve always lived in that kind of dream world and wanted to be there,” Kamal said.<\/p>\n

“All of this has played a big role in trying to make our buildings overflow with nature and greenery.”<\/p>\n

\"TheThe Good Earth is a residential project by Shibanee & Kamal Architects in Bangalore<\/p>\n

Shibanee & Kamal Architects is a global architecture and design studio founded in Bangalore in 1996 by Shibanee and Kamal Sagar.<\/p>\n

The practice is also building a 121-home residential community in Frisco, Texas, called Tapestry<\/a>, which features curved planted roofs and garden access for every room.<\/p>\n

The photography is by Total Environment.<\/p>\n

Partnership content<\/p>\n

This video was produced by Dezeen as part of a partnership with Total Environment<\/a>. Find out more about Dezeen partnership content here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bangalore-based studio Shibanee & Kamal Architects explains why gardens are central to how it designs housing projects in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":465838,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[64596,76,354,355,49,48,356,126289,75,38333,1799,49626,49627,50836,123157,190140,94664],"class_list":{"0":"post-465837","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-architecture-videos","9":"tag-arts","10":"tag-arts-and-design","11":"tag-artsanddesign","12":"tag-ca","13":"tag-canada","14":"tag-design","15":"tag-design-videos","16":"tag-entertainment","17":"tag-gardens","18":"tag-india","19":"tag-sectionall","20":"tag-sectionarchitecture","21":"tag-sectiondesign","22":"tag-sectionvideos","23":"tag-shibanee-kamal-architects","24":"tag-videos-by-dezeen"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}