Stepped for Climate, Designed for Community: Prestige University, Indore| Sanjay Puri Architects

At Prestige University in Indore, Sanjay Puri Architects shape an institutional building where climate responsiveness and collective space emerge from the same architectural strategy. Spread across a 32-acre campus, the academic block brings together administrative offices, library facilities, classrooms, seminar halls, an auditorium, and shared amenities within a stepped architectural form that gradually rises from the approach, softening the perception of its 28-metre height.Circulation and social spaces emerge as the building’s primary organisers. A diagonally ascending series of terraces transforms the roofscape into an accessible public realm — a layered open-air forum capable of accommodating large gatherings while also supporting […]