VILLARAJ

A PRIVATE NEOCLASSICAL RESIDENCE - AHMEDABAD

POSITION: RESIDENT SITE ENGINEER

The Project

Most buildings are built for a generation. A few are built to outlast the people who made them. _VillaRaj belongs to the second kind._

VillaRaj is a private family residence conceived in the classical tradition — a tradition of proportion, order, and permanence that runs from the Greeks through Palladio to the outstanding country houses of England and the finest civic architecture of India. It is being designed not as a house of fashion but as a _monument_: a building whose columns, cornices, and mouldings are drawn with the same discipline practised for two and a half thousand years, and executed in materials chosen to age rather than to date.

Neoclassicism is not decoration. It is a philosophy of building — that beauty arises from proportion rather than ornament, that every moulding has a grammatical role, and that craftsmanship is the difference between a drawing and a legacy. Very few buildings of this ambition are attempted in India in any decade. This is one of them.





The Design Team

The consultant team assembled for VillaRaj is, without exaggeration, of a calibre rarely brought together for a single private residence in this country:
- Principal Architect — Professor Robert Adam (United Kingdom).One of the world’s foremost living classical architects, whose practice has shaped the contemporary revival of traditional architecture in Britain and internationally.
- Executive Architect — KGA.Responsible for translating the classical design intent into Indian execution — working drawings, coordination, and statutory delivery.
- Lighting Designer — Richard Aldridge (United Kingdom).An internationally practised lighting designer, crafting the schemes that will reveal the architecture by night as the sun does by day.

Alongside them: structural, MEP, landscape, and interior consultants of matching standard, Indian and international, coordinated under the owner’s direct

📌 Resident Site Engineer (Paldi)
🏢 VillaRaj
📍 Paldi