Global Intelligence, Research & Specialist Collaboration
No single architect, company, institution or country possesses all the answers to the future of human living.
To bring this vision to life, Della Townships India draws on diverse expertise, research and specialist knowledge from India and around the world.
Germany
South Africa
India
Slovenia
GermanyOur ecosystem continues to evolve, bringing together new perspectives across Architecture, Science, Engineering, Design, Technology and Human Wellbeing.
The purpose of collaboration is not to collect famous names.
It is to bring the best available intelligence into a real place where ideas can be tested.
The Della Future-Fit Living Laboratory Framework
Our work is organised around 8 interconnected dimensions of human living.
01 Human
Salutogenic Living, Longevity & Integrated Wellbeing
Salutogenic Living is an approach to design and lifestyle that focuses on what keeps people healthy physically, mentally, and socially. Rooted in the concept of salutogenesis (from salus = health, genesis = origin) introduced by medical sociologist Aaron Antonovsky, it emphasizes environments and resources that promote coherence, manageability, meaning, and connection.
Moving beyond designing places that merely prevent illness towards environments that actively support physical, mental, emotional and social wellbeing.
Salutogenic principles influence masterplanning, landscape, architecture, movement, recreation, food, sleep, community and everyday experiences.
The question is simple:
Can the places we inhabit actually help us live healthier lives?
Integrating advanced medical wellness and longevity into everyday township living rather than treating wellness as an occasional retreat.
In collaboration with MAYRLIFE Austria, Della townships explore MAYR science, preventive health, diagnostics, metabolic health, nutrition, recovery and longevity.
Through the Ignite Foundation of Life Sciences, the laboratory explores emerging areas of life sciences, cell-regeneration therapies, preventive wellbeing and access to an ecosystem of scientists, researchers and medical specialists.
Mindfulness should not be confined to a wellness centre.
Quiet zones, contemplative landscapes, sensory environments, meditation spaces and places for reflection are integrated into the township itself.
Creating communities where children, adults and seniors are not segregated into isolated worlds.
Integrated senior living, family life, recreation, healthcare and community infrastructure enable generations to remain connected.
Exploring the relationship between nutrition, agriculture, hospitality and longevity — from farm-to-table ecosystems to healthier everyday food experiences.
02 ARCHITECTURE
Biophilic, Biomimetic, Regenerative & 100-Year Design
- Architecture should do more than create an iconic skyline.
- It should improve the relationship between human beings, nature and time.
Biophilic architecture becomes a defining Della architectural identity.
Nature is not decoration added after architecture.
Landscape, water, daylight, vegetation, natural materials, views and climatic responsiveness become fundamental architectural ingredients.
Learning from the intelligence of nature.
Structures, façades, ventilation, shading, water systems and material strategies can draw inspiration from biological systems that have evolved over millions of years.
Moving beyond sustainability towards architecture and landscapes that can positively contribute to ecological systems.
The ambition is not simply to reduce harm.
It is to explore how development can give back more than it takes.
If we are designing for the next hundred years of human living, we must question the culture of disposable buildings.
Della laboratories explore longevity, adaptability, maintainability, resilient materials and buildings capable of evolving across generations.
Future cities cannot be designed in disciplinary silos.
Della brings together urban design, architecture, hospitality, recreation, adventure, landscape, wellness, mobility, engineering, technology and operations within one integrated masterplanning process.
Led through Della by Jimmy Mistry Design Studios, with specialist global collaborations including Carlo Ratti Associati and other leading architects, designers and futurists.
Orientation, shading, ventilation, thermal performance, vegetation and water are used to create architecture appropriate to India's diverse climatic conditions.
03 Lifestyle
Theme-Based Living, Hospitality, Recreation & Sport
- Della does not believe the future of cities should be generic.
- Every township should have a soul.
- Theme-based masterplanning creates distinctive destinations around powerful lifestyle ecosystems.
Different Della laboratories explore different themes — motorsport, golf, wellness, design, wine, agriculture, education, media, adventure and other experiential worlds.
The theme becomes an organising principle for the township's architecture, hospitality, experiences, residences and economy.
Hospitality becomes part of city-making.
Della Resorts bring resort living into the township through luxury accommodation, restaurants, spas, recreation, entertainment, weddings and corporate experiences.
The objective is to blur the conventional boundary between living and resort living.
Residents should not have to travel to experience exceptional hospitality.
Restaurants, clubs, wellness, entertainment and curated experiences become part of everyday township life.
A Future-Fit township cannot become dormant after homes are sold.
Programming, hospitality, recreation, festivals, sport, culture, wellness and events generate activity 365 days a year.
04 Destination
Design Districts, Luxury Retail, Culture & Gastronomy
- A township should not merely house people.
- It should become somewhere people want to visit.
05 Community
Weddings, Corporate MICE, Della Leaders Club & the 365-Day Experience Economy
- The success of a future city cannot be measured only by the buildings it contains.
- It must be measured by how much human life happens between them.
Public spaces, clubs, recreation, hospitality, events and shared experiences are intentionally designed to increase interaction and belonging.
The Della Leaders Club ecosystem creates opportunities for entrepreneurs, professionals and thought leaders to interact, collaborate and build meaningful communities.
Different townships can create specialised foundations and knowledge platforms around their central themes.
These include:
01
Fashion Foundation
02
Art Foundation
03
Architecture Foundation
04
AgriTech & Viticulture Foundation
05
Wine Museum
06
Life Sciences ecosystem
07
Mobility & Motorsport ecosystem
These institutions allow the townships to become places of learning, research, culture and intellectual exchange, not merely consumption.
06 Planet
Regenerative Nature, Carbon & Biodiversity
- Nature is not the land left over after development.
- Nature is infrastructure.
With research collaboration involving IIT Madras, Della laboratories explore the potential of microalgae and related biological systems for carbon capture and environmental applications.
The township provides something a conventional laboratory cannot:
a real operating environment in which ideas can ultimately be tested at meaningful scale.
Connected landscapes, tree canopies and green corridors create healthier microclimates while supporting human wellbeing.
Landscapes are designed to restore ecological value, improve microclimates, support biodiversity and reconnect people with natural systems.
Water bodies, rainwater, groundwater recharge and landscape systems are viewed as interconnected ecological infrastructure.
07 Materials
Circular Materials, Landfill-to-Construction & Future Materials
IITB-Della Townships
Laboratory for Innovation in Waste Circularity
From Research to Real-World Impact
How we build for the next 100 years demands that we rethink waste not as something to discard, but as a resource for what we build next.
A research and innovation collaboration between Dr. D.N. Singh, IIT Bombay, and Jimmy Mistry, Design Futurist, Master Planner, Creator of future-fit cities, CMD Della Townships India, beginning with the development of plastic modular interlocking bricks from waste and expanding into applications across buildings, roads and township infrastructure.
Della Townships India provides its townships as real-world testbeds, enabling innovations to move from research and prototyping to validation, deployment and scalable real-world application.
08 Systems
Future-Fit Engineering, MUTs, Water Intelligence, IoT & Invisible Technology
- The most advanced technology in a city should often be the technology residents barely notice.
SCADA-based water management enables monitoring and control across treatment, storage, distribution and consumption.
Della's work with specialist international expertise, including Slovenian SCADA technology, forms part of this Future-Fit water infrastructure thinking.
Della is exploring integrated Multi-Utility Tunnel infrastructure that consolidates critical services into accessible underground corridors.
Electricity, communications, water and other utilities can be organised for easier maintenance, upgrading and long-term adaptability.
In collaboration with Reliance Jio, private 5G infrastructure can create the digital backbone for connected township operations.
Sensors and connected systems can help understand and manage water, energy, mobility, security, infrastructure and environmental conditions.
Monitoring generation, distribution and consumption enables better optimisation of township energy systems.
Connected infrastructure creates the potential to identify problems before failure rather than waiting for infrastructure to break.
Over time, digital representations of township systems can allow designers and operators to understand how infrastructure and human environments are actually performing.
Technology is never the destination.
Its purpose is to make life healthier, simpler, safer, more sustainable and more human.
One Distributed Living Laboratory Across India
The most important idea is not any individual laboratory.
It is the network.
Della Townships India currently represents a growing platform across multiple Indian cities and geographies.
Each township has different climatic conditions, demographics, themes, landscapes and operating environments.
That diversity creates an extraordinary opportunity.
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- 01 An idea tested in one laboratory can inform another.
- 02 A material proven in one geography can be tested in another.
- 03 A wellbeing intervention can be measured across different communities.
- 04 A water system can improve through operational learning.
- 05 A successful innovation can move progressively across the network.
This creates something far more powerful than twelve independent real-estate developments.
It creates a distributed Future-Fit Living Laboratory across India.
The Della Laboratory Methodology
A laboratory must experiment.
Otherwise, it is merely a label.
Every serious Della Future-Fit initiative should progressively move through an eight-stage process:
01
Imagine
Ask the question others are not yet asking.
02
Collaborate
Bring together the right global and Indian intelligence.
03
Research
Understand the science, technology, human need and commercial reality.
04
Experiment
Test the idea within a controlled real-world application.
05
Operate
Move beyond prototypes into an actual functioning township environment.
06
Measure
Collect evidence about performance, behaviour, impact and viability.
07
Prove
Understand what works, what fails and what needs to evolve.
08
Replicate
Take successful ideas across the Della network — and ultimately allow them to travel beyond it.
- Imagine
- Collaborate
- Research
- Experiment
- Operate
- Measure
- Prove
- Replicate
From Laboratory to Commercial Reality
Future-Fit thinking cannot remain an academic exercise.
For innovation to influence the future of human living, it must ultimately become operationally and commercially viable.
That is why Della combines:
- Design
- Research
- Hospitality
- Operations
- Real Estate
- Technology
- Experience
within the same ecosystem.
- The commercial success of the township allows research and experimentation to live in the real world.
- And the laboratory makes the commercial development more relevant to the future.
Purpose and profitability do not have to be opposites. They can reinforce one another.
India as a Living Laboratory for the Future
India is entering one of the largest periods of urban transformation in human history.
That gives us a choice.
We can import models created for yesterday's cities.
Or we can participate in designing new models for tomorrow.
Della Townships India represents our attempt to contribute to that larger conversation.
Not by claiming to have all the answers.
But by creating places where important questions can actually be explored.
- Where scientists can work with developers.
- Where architects can work with doctors.
- Where engineers can work with ecologists.
- Where hospitality operators can work with urbanists.
- Where technology can work with human behaviour.
And where ideas can move from:
- Theory
- Research
- Real Life
- Evidence
- Replication
Della Townships India
Future-Fit Living Laboratories
Designing, testing and proving ideas for the next 100 years of human living — one township at a time.
Frequently Asked Questions
Della Future-Fit Living Laboratories are real-world environments embedded within Della townships where ideas for the future of human living can be researched, tested, operated, measured, proven and ultimately replicated. Rather than remaining theoretical, innovation is explored through real townships, real people, real operations and real data
Every geography, climate, community and township presents different opportunities and challenges. By creating laboratories across multiple townships, Della can explore different ideas in different real-world conditions and allow learning from one township to inform another
Everything begins with one question:
How should humanity live for the next 100 years?
The laboratories explore this through eight interconnected dimensions of human living: Human, Architecture, Lifestyle, Destination, Community, Planet, Materials and Systems.
India is undergoing extraordinary urban transformation. Della believes this gives India an opportunity not merely to import models developed elsewhere, but to participate in designing, testing and contributing new models for tomorrow’s cities and communities.
No. Della’s philosophy is fundamentally collaborative. No single company, architect, institution or country has all the answers. The laboratories are intended to bring together Indian and global architects, scientists, engineers, doctors, researchers, technologists, designers and operators around real-world challenges.
Della’s evolving specialist ecosystem includes expertise and collaborations involving TILKE Engineers & Architects, Gary Player, MAYRLIFE Austria, Carlo Ratti Associati, IIT Madras, IIT Bombay, Ignite Foundation of Life Sciences, Reliance Jio and specialist global water and SCADA expertise, alongside other architects, futurists, scientists, engineers and operators.
The laboratories span areas including Salutogenic Living, longevity and medical wellness, biophilic and biomimetic architecture, regenerative landscapes, 100-year buildings, microalgae and carbon research, landfill-to-construction materials, circular construction, water intelligence, Multi-Utility Tunnels, IoT, digital infrastructure, hospitality, mobility, recreation and community.
The objective is to study the future of human living as an interconnected system rather than as isolated innovations.
Della has defined an eight-stage laboratory methodology:
IMAGINE → COLLABORATE → RESEARCH → EXPERIMENT → OPERATE → MEASURE → PROVE → REPLICATE
The intention is to move promising ideas beyond concepts and prototypes into functioning township environments where their performance and viability can progressively be understood.
That is one of the central purposes of creating a distributed network. An idea tested in one laboratory can inform another; a material proven in one geography can be explored in another; and successful innovations can progressively move across the Della network. The larger ambition is for proven ideas to eventually travel beyond DELLA and contribute to the wider future of human living.
Della Townships India currently represents 12 townships across 10 Indian cities with ₹55,319 crore combined GDV. The larger vision is to connect them as one distributed Future-Fit Living Laboratory across India—creating a platform where India and global intelligence can collaborate, experiment and learn together, and where successful ideas can ultimately be replicated beyond Della
