Luxury living in Tagaytay

Tuesday, 15 May 2012 19:11 Blake Cassey Blumenthal

RELAXATION, rejuvenation and reward are Anya’s promises when you stay at Anya Resort and Residences in Tagaytay. “In Sanskrit, the word Anya means boundless and extraordinary. Indeed, Anya is something more than ordinary and its benefits are boundless,” said Anya’s Senior Vice President Santiago R. Elizalde.

Anya Resort and Residences is located in a vast area with 5.7 hectares of 54 residential lots and 66 resort residences, which come to a total housing of 120 units. The average lot size is 450 sq m. 

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Permanent residents will have their own separate entrance from the guests who will be staying at the resort area, ensuring privacy to both occupants, who will enjoy Anya’s facilities and amenities such as the Residents’ Pavilion; swimming pool; pocket parks and open spaces; first-class underground electrical facilities; high-grade road with planting strips and landscaped sidewalks. Anya takes pride in its underground electrical facilities which promote green living and sustainability. Even during construction, Anya had taken great care with the trees that are growing in the area. 

“We would ball out all of the trees for the bulldozers so that they wouldn’t die and move them to a different location. Most developers bulldoze first and plant later. Not us!” said Elizalde.

“It was an incredible place. I felt strongly about the potential of the property. I felt that it was fantastic,” recounted Elizalde when he first saw the property. The vision of Anya is to preserve the land as is and just build around it. The residents will be able to enjoy nature and seclusion. We want to promote clean living and green architecture. We want to promote the use of sunlight, which is why we add big windows to the houses. We also want to reuse rainwater.”

Buyers can choose from three house designs depending on the buyers’ needs. Each purchase comes with a collection of the three houses designed by renowned architect Emmanuel Miñana to ensure the architectural harmony of this special community. The three designs are Resort Residence, Private Villa and Family Pavilion. The buyer will be allowed to choose the layout of the interior of the building to suit his or her needs and wants.

Thus far, 80 percent of Anya’s units have already been presold. The first stage of the building will start in June and the second stage will begin between January and February of 2013.  The Resort and Residences should be completed within 18 months of each building stage.

Environmental preservation is of the upmost importance to Anya, which is why they preserve what the land has given them. Natural rolling terrain is preserved. The master plan was also created to prioritize the mature trees and the existing landscape is cared for by the maintenance team. Energy-efficient house designs were implemented, while the waste management and rain water collection, as well as underground facilities, were put into place to preserve the land.

“I went to a very large, contemporary museum with a very long floor plan in Scotland. The opaque façade was of stone. Inside, the long corridor had a glazed skyline which allowed light in. At the end, there was a series of doors that opened into a three-story structure made of floor-to-ceiling glass. This transparent space looks out into the forest beyond. I was so amazed! How can a space reveal itself this way?” said Miñana about his design inspiration.

“‘Every home must hold a promise,’” Miñana quoted the great Hugh Newell Jacobsen in encapsulating his design principal. “You don’t just enter a home. You can imbue a space with something more special by just opening up a succession of other spaces or by breaking down the opaque quality and proving a sense of transparency and freedom. It is akin to eventually opening up one’s chakras. The opportunity to create this succession of experiences was so compelling when we were asked to do the homes at Anya Resort and Residences,” added Miñana.

When Roxaco asked Miñana to design the homes for Anya Resort and Residences, he knew he had to create a jewel of a community—one that eschews the typical notion of what living in Tagaytay really is—that is, looking out into the lake and volcano. Instead, he looked within the property and created a haven that celebrated seclusion and exclusivity. To communicate this sense of privacy, the architect envisioned an enclave where homes are beautifully homogenized and integrate seamlessly with the natural environment.