Building A Sustainable Community

Millennium Estates are a premium gated community that blend luxury with superior amenities, to create a residential space of convenience. The company’s vision is to inspire the spirit of community-living in a reserved yet flourishing neighbourhood

- Fiona environs

SHALINI BHATNAGAR CEO OF FIONA ENVIRONS

A collection of 198 luxury villas located within Mohammed bin Rashid City (MBR City), Millennium Estates is spread over 3.8 million square feet of land and is a development project of G&Co, a Meydan City sub-developer. The villas are designed in three different styles each with a private garden space. With the size of villas ranging from 5400 square feet to 6800 square feet, the community includes parks and walkways for residential use. It is the first freehold project that has been delivered in MBR City. Millennium Estates has three main parks of approximately 75000 square meters each. The design brief was to create ample lawn space with provisions for kid’s play areas and outdoor gyms. With such a huge canvas to work on, lawn spaces were easy to design, and creativity easily flowed.

Formulating connections

At Fiona Environs, we believe in creating sustainable designs that are user-friendly and that illustrate creativity. This was reflected in our guiding vision for the project: formulating connections.

We began the design process by simply identifying spaces within these gardens. Once we defined the important spaces such as a kid’s play area, outdoor gym and planting and lawn spaces, we then created simple curvilinear pathways to connect them together. These pathways also served as jogging and running tracks for residents’. Two types of pathways were created: primary and secondary. Primary pathways were longer and ran throughout the park, and were created to be used as a jogging track. Secondary pathways served as connecting pathways from functional spaces to primary pathways. The primary pathway also served as a connection from each villa to the garden. To differentiate between primary and secondary pathways, different paving patterns and colours were used.