The site is adjoining the University Campus and was originally an orchard on the edge of the beautiful Nagin lake. On an area of 12.5 acres the requirement was for 150 houses and a community centre having a boat club, guest house and teachers club. The fruit trees had all been removed before handling over the site to the University.
The housing design seeks to recreate the environment for an orchard with mostly two-storied houses set within a new plantation of fruit trees. All houses are oriented facing, south to maximize solar heat gain and with all rooms overlooking south-side gardens connected by footpaths descending gradually across the slope to the lake edge where the community centre is located.
A maximum use of indigenous construction technology is made to reduce costs and to maintain harmony with the existing built environment.