Wildlife and jungle resorts
Jungle and Wildlife
Resort Architects,
Since 1997.
Kanha, Pench, Tadoba and Bor. The teak and bamboo country of central India is where we have been happiest working, and where a drawing answers to a forest department before it answers to anyone else. It began at Kanha in 1997 and it has not stopped since.
It began with Tuli Tiger Resort at Kanha, drawn in 1997. Nothing about that brief resembled the city hotels the studio had been building in Nagpur since 1982: no municipal water, no reliable power, a monsoon that closes the approach road, and a forest department whose rules decide the footprint before an architect draws a line.
Twenty-eight years later the same studio has resorts completed or under way right across that landscape, for Tuli, Club Mahindra, ITC WelcomHeritage, Radisson, Sterling and Accord. Full scope on almost every one — architecture, structure, MEP, fire fighting, interiors and landscape drawn in-house, because on a site four hours from the nearest consultant that is the only arrangement that works.
Every Jungle Resort,
Named and Dated.
Oldest first
- Tuli Tiger Resort - Kanha
- Mahindra Prestige Natures Nest
- Tuli Tiger Corridor
- ITC Welcome Heritage Jungle Homes
- Tuli Veer Bagh
- Radisson Jungle Homes
- Resort Accord Wildlife
- Resort Sukalp
- Sterling Vanyatara
- LCH Resort
- Resort Tuli Wildlife
Four Tiger Reserves,
One Landscape.
Kanha and Pench in Madhya Pradesh, Tadoba and Bor in Maharashtra. Different forest departments, different buffer-zone rules, the same central Indian teak-and-bamboo country and the same tourist season — October to June, with the monsoon closing everything behind it.
That season is the hard constraint on a jungle resort, and it is a construction constraint before it is a hospitality one. A building that misses its window waits a year.
What a Jungle Site
Actually Demands.
A resort inside a buffer zone is not a hotel that happens to be in a forest. Height is capped, the plan is dispersed rather than stacked, and it has to be built by local labour out of materials that can reach the plot on a road the forest department controls.
Services are the part that catches people out. Power fails, so the design has to carry its own. Water is drawn, stored and treated on site. Sewage cannot leave. Fire fighting has to work with no municipal main to draw on. Those are the disciplines we keep in-house, and out there it is not a convenience — it is the difference between a coordinated building and a set of drawings meeting for the first time on site.
The Wada at
Jungle Homes Tadoba.
Jungle Homes, completed for Radisson at Tadoba in 2025, is planned on the Maharashtrian wada — the inward-facing courtyard house of this region, rooms wrapped around an open centre.
It won the iDAC Infinity Award for 2025–26 and was a finalist in the architecture category of the Aces of Space Design Awards 2025. It has been written about across the design press.
Jungle Resorts,
Photographed and Drawn.
Drawings, photographs and the brief behind each.
Reserve by Reserve.
Each landscape asks for something different, and each has its own account of what we have built inside it.
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Bringing Us a Forest Site?
Send the survey, the buffer-zone classification and whatever the forest department has already said. We will tell you what the site can carry, and what the season allows, before anyone commits.