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Private residences
Single-family homes designed around an existing tree, a view, or a way of living. Drawn by Elixir's in-house studio.
A curated living ecosystem · Bengaluru, India
Don't choose
a plot. Choose
how you want to live.
We don't sell land. We create environments where nature, design, and human experience come together — and life evolves differently.
People are moving from visiting nature to living in it.
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About Elixir
A way of living,
not a place.
Elixir is not a plotted development. It is a curated living ecosystem where nature, design, and human experience come together. We don't sell land. We create environments where life evolves differently.
Every project begins with a season of quiet observation — mapping existing trees, watershed, light, and soil. Only then do we draw a single line.
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Nature is not an amenity
It is the foundation. Every design begins with what already lives on the site — the canopy, the contours, the seasons.
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Design is not construction
It is curation. Buildings are quiet, low, and unhurried. The land is the protagonist; the home is its companion.
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Living is not ownership
It is experience. Walkable, shaded, intimate in scale — designed for slow mornings and longer lives.
What we create
Three kinds of work,
held to one standard.
We work slowly and we work on few things at a time. What we accept falls into three quiet categories — each of them treated with the same patience.
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Small intentional communities
Eight to twenty homes clustered around shared landscape — orchards, groves, walking paths — never more than the land can hold.
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Land stewardship
For owners of unbuilt land who would like to develop modestly, or to leave most of it untouched. We advise, sometimes we partner.
Our projects
Built with
intention.
Each site is chosen for what it already is — the canopy it holds, the water it carries, the quiet it keeps. We design from that starting point, never against it.
Accepting enquiries
Elixir Prana
Where the canopy begins.
A cluster of fourteen homes set within a mature mixed-canopy forest on the northern edge of the city. Each residence is positioned around an existing tree. Roads are narrow, unpaved, and shared with the rain.
LocationNorth Bengaluru, Karnataka
TypologySmall intentional community
Land7.2 acres
Residences14 residences
Timeline2026 – 2028
Altitude920 m above sea level
Accepting enquiries
Elixir Prana
Where the canopy begins.
A cluster of fourteen homes set within a mature mixed-canopy forest on the northern edge of the city. Each residence is positioned around an existing tree. Roads are narrow, unpaved, and shared with the rain.
LocationNorth Bengaluru, Karnataka
TypologySmall intentional community
Land7.2 acres
Residences14 residences
Timeline2026 – 2028
Altitude920 m above sea level
What guides us
Premium. Calm.
Grounded in nature.
“People are moving from visiting nature to living in it.” Our mission and vision aren't slogans — they are the measure of every decision we make.
I — Mission
To create environments where nature, design, and human experience come together — and life evolves differently.
We build only what the land can hold gracefully. We work with architects who subtract as readily as they add. Our measure: how well a home ages with its trees, its soil, its family.
II — Vision
This is not where you live. This is how you live.
A way of building measured not in floor plates, but in the longevity of a forest, the health of a watershed, and the quality of a child's morning walk to school.
The people behind Elixir
Built by people who believe
real estate can be more rooted.
Three founding partners, each from a different discipline, brought together by a shared discomfort with how land is usually handled — and a shared hope for what it could be.
AR
A background in conservation finance before turning to real estate. Aravind leads how Elixir reads, acquires, and stewards the land beneath every project.
“We don't develop sites. We accept their custody — for a while.”
NK
Trained in architecture in Ahmedabad and London. Nila has spent years designing for forest, coast, and high desert — with a quiet preference for stone, lime, and shadow.
“Restraint is not less. It is the harder thing to draw.”
DM
Years spent shaping wellness retreats across the Western Ghats. At Elixir, he leads how residents move into a home, and how they grow into a place.
“A neighbourhood is not built. It is given time, and then it appears.”
Our way of building
Four rules
we will not bend.
Not aspirations. The rules we measure every project against before we agree to begin. If a site cannot honour them, we decline the work.
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Nature is not an amenity
It is the foundation. Every tree is mapped before a drawing is begun. Mature trees stay. Buildings shape themselves around them.
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Design is not construction
It is curation. Floor plates respond to canopy, prevailing wind, and sunlight — not the other way around.
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Living is not ownership
It is experience. Low silhouettes, local stone, lime, timber. Materials that age into the landscape and into a life.
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Growth has its own pace
Phases released in small batches, with long gaps between, so a neighbourhood can find its rhythm before the next one begins.
The Elixir Journal
Thoughts from the land.
Long-form writing from our founders, architects, and site stewards. Less a publication; more a record of what we are thinking about, out loud.
What conscious development means for modern families
Not a marketing word. A working framework — for parents, for children, for the long quiet of a Sunday morning.
Read article
Why nature-first living is the future of real estate
The industry is slowly understanding what the land has been saying all along — that long-term value cannot be paved over.
Read article
The difference between green spaces and living landscapes
A lawn is not a forest. A planted sapling is not a tree. The vocabulary of land matters more than we admit.
Read article
Start a conversation
We'd rather have a
good conversation
than a fast sale.
Tell us about the land you are thinking about, or simply about how you would like to live. We read every note that comes in, and we reply in our own hand.
Writehello@elixir.estate
StudioBengaluru, India
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