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JAVA RAIN RESORT, CHIKMAGALUR, KARNATAKA

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Each villa forecourt was given a sense of partial Images 1-5 : Single and Twin villa
enclosure, through landform grading, alignment Images 6-8 : Presidential villa
of pathways and planting. The rear side of the
villas, with their sit outs was opened up into
private garden pockets for play, idling, or just
gazing at the sky. Between villas, patches of
existing Robusta coffee were retained as an
allusion to its erstwhile landuse. Beyond the
villa perimeter, the planting transitions to
grasses and then to borrowed glimpses of the Single/Twin villa
adjoining coffee plantation or the valley. Presidential villa