Elevation Design Trends Shaping Gujarat's Skyline in 2026

Gujarat's residential skyline has shifted noticeably over the past two years, and it shows up clearly in the briefs landing on our desks. Flat, single-plane facades are giving way to layered elevations, projecting balconies, recessed volumes, and textured cladding bands that break a tower's silhouette into something more sculptural.

Biophilic terraces are the other clear pattern. Developers are asking for landscaped sky decks, vertical greenery threading up amenity floors, and pool decks framed by planting rather than bare paving. It reflects a buyer expectation that a premium tower should feel alive, not just tall.

Material palettes are also warming. Where cool greys and glass dominated briefs a few years back, we're now rendering far more warm stone, timber-look cladding, and bronze-toned metal accents, especially on street-level retail frontages and clubhouse facades.

Night identity has become its own design consideration. Facade lighting is no longer an afterthought added in post; developers are specifying accent lighting schemes at the design stage, because a tower's evening silhouette is now a marketing asset in its own right, especially for hoardings and drone footage.

For us, this shift means elevation work increasingly overlaps with landscape and lighting design from day one, rather than being handled as three separate passes. The results are elevations that feel considered as a whole environment, not just a building with a nice facade.