Located amidst luscious tea gardens, the campus is designed to house a Training Hall, Office Studio &
Residential units. The building is designed to respond to outside to extend the training activities into the
landscape and the space in between the buildings to absorb different activities during different times of the
day varying in scale and privacy. This approach also confirms a campus built in a rural set up with many
nonprogrammed activities anticipated by the PP team in the future.

The design intents to create an intimate yet expansive interior space making most of what a pitched roof can
do as opposed to a flat roof in large span spaces. The recessed windows with built-in seating and storage
below contribute to its intimate and inviting quality. The complexity in spatial design in addition to the plan is
substantially enhanced by formal articulation, nuanced colour application ,varying the pitched roof form and
tectonics , and the overall craftmanship.

Sourced locally, the building materials like bamboo and adobe have been employed with clear intention to
reduce the ecological footprint as well as support in upgrading local skills and livelihood opportunities to
echo one of the primary focus of the organization itself to build local enterpreneurs. The key decisions around
the siting and some design features has been following:-

A.Orientation of the building and placement of windows so as to take maximum advantage of sunlight

B. Building elongated on an east-west axis

C. Maximize use of north (no glare) light

D. Building’s south face to be re-shaded with large window canopies

E. Placement of deciduous trees to provide shade in summer and allow heat to penetrate in winter

F. Use of minimum impervious surface for paving

Building Materials:

• Foundation & Plinth – Burnt Brick; (sourced locally)
• Walling – Stabilized Adobe
• Roof Understructure – CCB Treated Bamboo
• Roof – PUF Panel
• Openings – MS Frame & Timber/MS In-fillClient: PROJECT POTENTIAL TRUST, New Delhi
  Location: P.O. Churli, Kishanganj, Bihar
  Climate: Humid Sub-Tropical
  Total Built-up Area: 970 SQM
  Phase1 :
• Training Hall (supported by Infosys Foundation)
• Rural Innovation Studio (supported by Ashraya Hastha Trust)

Phase 2: Admin / Office Studio
Phase 3 : Group Residences
Status: Phase1 Complete
Photos: Nikhil Patel