The campus for the Post Graduate Diploma College located at Rural Technology Park (RTP), NIRD Campus houses infrastructure to cater to 200 students enrolling in a curriculum spanning one year. Spread over an area of almost six acres, the site posesses an interesting land profile dotted with granite boulders and trees.
An environmental approach to design was considered a pre-requisite. This by itself led to a better understanding of the site land features, and supplemented design decisions. As a result ground intervention was minimized, while natural slopes were utilized for generating spaces that became part of the site instead of an imposition on it.
Focus was given to the population that is expected to bring the campus to life. Community living setup for hostels with intergrated interaction spaces and landscape, the formulation of academic spaces as a transition between residential spaces and syndicate spaces, and the eventual arrangement of syndicate spaces; part enclosed yet open to outside; are all indicators of the same idea: that 'learning' is a perennial process. And that there is no better teacher than an environment. This design aims to provide such an environment which educates by being, rather than teaching.