Education Park is an innovative sustainable school design developed as a collaborative team effort to prove that high-performance architecture can be achieved using local materials and labour.
By integrating low-cost technologies and solar passive design, the project creates a scalable blueprint for rural infrastructure that is both ecologically responsible and economically viable.
In Khargone, Madhya Pradesh—one of the poorest and hottest districts in India—extreme environmental and economic conditions create a significant barrier to quality education:
Climate: Summer temperatures peaking at 48°C.
Infrastructure: Unreliable energy grids in a rural setting.
Economy: Limited budgets requiring alternatives to conventional, high-cost construction.
The design combines traditional logic with sustainable technology.
A central courtyard acts as a primary heat sink, driving natural ventilation and daylighting while providing a multi-use assembly space.
Resource security is managed through integrated rainfall harvesting, watershed management, and drip irrigation, supported by a landscape of over 1,500 native trees to mitigate the heat island effect.
Construction Cost: Built at ₹650/sft—an 18% saving over the regional conventional average of ₹800/sft.
Thermal Delta: The solar passive envelope maintains an interior temperature up to 10°C lower than the outside peak.
Natural Light: Measured classroom illumination stays between 300 to 1000 lux (8:00 AM – 4:00 PM), removing the need for artificial lighting during school hours.
Energy Status: Powered by three types of Solar PV panels, the site is a Zero Energy School with 100% energy autonomy.
Passive Design: Orientation and thermal mass regulate the climate naturally. The window systems use three distinct glazing types to optimize the balance between airflow and heat gain.
Solar Autonomy: Three different solar PV technologies provide a redundant, autonomous power source for the entire campus.
Site Ecology: Planting 1,500+ native species was essential to lowering the micro-climate temperature and restoring local biodiversity.
The project's performance and design methodology are published in the TERI Journal.
It is also officially recognized as a model school by the local administration for its scalable approach to rural infrastructure.
We work with architects during the early design phase to bake these passive and active technologies into the project’s DNA.
This ensures net-zero targets are met without compromising the design intent or exceeding the client’s budget.
Our role is to provide the technical proof of concept that makes sustainable architecture the most viable financial path.
Education Park proves that using solar passive design and local resources can lower construction costs by 18% while delivering a building that is thermally superior and energy-independent.
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