A proposal for setting up educational facilities in villages. These facilities were to be built by funds generated within the community and hence are designed to be incremental in nature, so as to allow addition over a period of time as cash-flows vary.

The design uses a simple chabutra and chappar as the basic built block into which various arrangements of building elements – walls, fenestrations and openings – can be added to create enclosures for the different activities and functions required.

The design also seeks to enable villages to set up their own centres without the necessity of expensive logistics to access technical help once they have mastered the building system. Thus allowing them to replicate it reducing cost and dependence on non-local professionals.

Material choices and building techniques were adopted that would be easily available in rural areas, resulting in lower energy use for transportation and procurement, and also more efficient building with locally available skilled workforces.