Life by the water.
Private estates across 26 acres of lakefront forest, by the family behind The Machan.
Every site had a flaw. Then we drove past this one.
Six thousand trees. Streams through the land. A hundred and eighty degrees of water. And neighbouring land that has remained wooded for over a century.
Protected by geography.
The lake to the north. Privately held lands belonging to the Tatas to the east and west, wooded for over a century. To the south, our own hill, where The Machan Resort & Spa, Lake Mulshi is in development.
We have been counting for fifteen years.
At The Machan, merely thirty minutes away, naturalists have recorded the forest returning: birds found nowhere but the Western Ghats, mouse deer and giant squirrels, a tree count grown from four thousand to more than twenty-five thousand. Aqua Vie is being planted to the same brief. Every year it should hold more life than the year before.
Recorded at The Machan, Jambulne, by resident naturalists and visiting researchers. A similar benchmark study of Aqua Vie’s ecology is under way.
No major tree cut.
No stream moved.
No hill flattened.
Twenty-six estates across 26 acres, placed where the land allowed. The master plan brings together hydrology, landscape and sustainability expertise. The architecture is conceived in-house and realised with leading consultants from India and Singapore.
The villa is not the home. The estate is.
Organic forms that read as part of the hillside. Glass where there would be walls. Stone that weathers instead of paint that fades. Decks on every floor, and a garden inside the house.
A double-height living room with its own garden, opening onto the pool deck. A master suite of over a thousand square feet under a retractable glass roof, with a bath in the open air. A home theatre, a spa and a gym below.
Seventeen one-acre estates. Three under construction; first handovers targeted for 2028.
A courtyard at the heart of the house. A master bedroom with an open-air bath and its own deck. A pool and a stream of your own. Nine half-acre estates.
The name is the brief.
Water shapes the rhythm of life here. You cross a koi pond on the way to your front door, hear a stream running through your estate, swim in your infinity pool and look out from your home over 180 degrees of Lake Mulshi.
Curtains that know when the sun peaks.
Technology is built into the home, but kept out of the way. One tap as you leave the city readies it for your arrival: cool rooms, a warm pool and low lights. Behind the scenes, these systems are designed to reduce wasted energy and lower running costs. The result is a more sustainable home that asks less of your time.
- Full-fibre connectivity to every home
- Solar first, then your own battery, then the grid
- Homes cooled by the earth and the wind, with little to no mechanical cooling
- One app for the house, the estate and the concierge
Your neighbourhood club is a five-star resort.
The Machan will run a private concierge team for the community, keeping your home exactly as you left it, no matter when you return. Behind it, The Machan Resort & Spa, Lake Mulshi is taking shape. Residents will have unfettered access to the resort and all its facilities, including a range of dining options and its wellness village.
The Machan Group has maintained carbon-neutral operations since 2021 through measured operational reductions, its regenerated natural carbon sink and limited local offsets for residual emissions. Family-owned since 1993.
Notes from the land.
Weekly. Progress on site, the ecology around it, and architecture that begins with the land.
Begin with a conversation.
Aqua Vie is being built slowly, for a small number of families who value what money has struggled to buy: clean air, open space, silence, water, and land that grows more beautiful with age. Leave your details and we will arrange a private conversation at a time that suits you.
Pricing and configurations are shared in person.