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The planning strategy focused on sensitively preserving and integrating an existing cluster of neem trees abutting the
site’s northern edge. Therefore, the building actively engages and intertwines with the tree clusters by moving back
and forth as required, resulting in multiple landscaped courtyards and shaded areas. The building height is kept low to
give it a pedestrian-friendly human scale and allows for the seamless integration of the ‘green’ and the ‘built’.
The design approach addresses the institute’s vision of hospitality skills development, operational exposure,
managerial competence, and a strategic outlook by ensuring that each space has a duality of purpose—one in its
educational avatar, and one as a setting conducive to the experience of luxury hospitality. This flexibility in space-
function is reflected across the entire project. Stepwells that are integrated within the design scheme are used as
open-air theatres when empty. Cafeterias double up as F&B outlets, where the students eat as well as learn service.
The kitchens are designed to enable students to cook as well as practice their service skills. The entire hostel
accommodation is built in a hotel format, where even public gathering spaces are designed to be serviced like
congregational spaces within hotels.
All dormitories are multiples of a single optimized bay module. The hostel rooms are planned in a manner that allows
the students to experience ‘hospitality’ in a hotel-room format. This modular approach to planning enhances the
flexibility and multiplicity of spaces and operations. Open areas work as spill-over spaces to encourage interaction
amongst the occupants.
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