Green oasis
- Vol.36(12), December
- New Dlehi Burda Media India Private Limited 2019
- 122-126p.
The design of the campus sets out to build a totally self-sufficient, green ‘oasis’ and fountain of knowledge in the middle of Rajasthan’s Thar Desert. It aims to provide high efficiency, reduced energy footprint and improved occupant comfort to achieve a net positive energy campus. Importance has been given to reduce the energy demands of the campus and then meeting them with very high performance equipment in order to inspire the students, faculty, staff and visitors to do better each and every day and imbibe the idea of sustainability.
“We aspired to create a campus that acts as a living laboratory so that the students can learn various practices of sustainability while walking and being part of the campus,” says Ar Gurpreet Shah.