ECR Villa Landscape

The brief was simple to say and rich to resolve: contemporary biophilic outdoor living. A coastal garden on the East Coast Road that feels lush and tactile, built from sculpted greens, stone and timber and warmed by ambient light. AA+ carried the idea through two complete design options, each moving from a concept mood board to a full master plan, program zones and a detailed planting sheet.

Both schemes are drawn as a journey rather than a single lawn. An arrival sequence gives way to quiet retreat corners, a family play trail and a reading nook with a swing, while water and fire anchor the garden as focal moments. Option 1 leans into tropical softness, with stepping paths, intimate lounge pockets, a zen-style water court and a sunken fire-lounge. Option 2 sets a more sensory, structured language of curved mosaic paving, vine and floral arches, meandering bioswales and a reflexology stone garden.

At the social heart of the plan sits a dining pocket: a long communal timber table under a vine-covered pergola, paired with a brick pizza oven and a built-in barbecue counter, lit by warm lanterns and string lights over stone paving.

The planting is native-first. A shortlist drawn from the villa's own planting sheet leads with Ixora and Bambusa for flowering hedges and screening clusters, bird's-nest fern for shaded pockets, and curtain creeper as a cascading green layer along the pool deck and edges. The material palette runs warm sand, forest green, water slate and amber glow, carried in aged timber, terracotta and wicker.