Amber Ridge Resort
Terraced water gardens stepping down a 4.2 hectare escarpment site, linking a restored stepwell to the arrival court.
The site
The property falls almost eleven metres from the entrance gate to its western boundary, with an abandoned stepwell sitting near the low point. Rather than terrace the slope into flat pads, we kept the fall and used it — every level change became a garden threshold, and the stepwell became the destination the whole sequence walks toward.
Water as structure
A single channel runs the length of the descent, moving harvested monsoon runoff from the arrival court down through five planted terraces before it reaches the restored well. In dry months the channel reads as a stone line in the ground; in the monsoon it fills and the whole garden is organised around the sound of moving water.
Planting
The palette is almost entirely native and drought-adapted — neem, khejri, bougainvillea and ornamental grasses — chosen so the resort's irrigation demand stays low through the summer peak when occupancy is highest and water is scarcest.
Images and drawings
Gallery frames are placeholders showing the project drawings — photography has not been supplied for this project yet.