Office Garden and Landscape Design in Hyderabad

Hyderabad's underlying geology is granite, and much of the city's usable soil is a shallow red sandy layer over it rather than a deep loam. On a terrace or courtyard this means we build the growing layer in raised beds or planters with drainage designed in, instead of assuming the ground underneath can be improved the way open farmland can.

Weight and drainage are planned together, since a waterlogged bed on a slab has nowhere for excess water to go except back into the building. Beds are laid out around existing columns, drains and skylights rather than forcing a fixed layout onto the space.

Where the rainwater pit fits into the plan

GHMC building rules require a rainwater harvesting pit for any plot over 100 square feet, and new construction above 300 square metres of built-up area must show the system in its drawings and have it working before occupancy. A courtyard or terrace garden project is a natural place to route this pit, so the planting plan and the harvesting structure are designed as one job rather than two separate contractors working around each other.

Where the building already has a harvesting pit that is silted up or unused, we can route garden drainage to feed it, which is one less thing for your facility team to explain at the next civic inspection.

A campus, not a single building

The HITEC City precinct itself covers around 200 acres split across Madhapur, Gachibowli, Kondapur, Manikonda and Nanakramguda, and a courtyard or terrace project inside one of these campuses often has to coordinate with facilities management across a shared podium rather than a single standalone building.

Gachibowli sits only around five kilometres from the Financial District, and campuses spanning both areas sometimes want one design language carried across two sites rather than treating each vacant space as its own brief.