Post earthquake, a structural rethinking resulted in looking at debris as a potential construction material. In certain parts of Saurashtra, there was an existing culture of building compound walls using stone chips with some of the waste produced from industry that had pozzolanic properties. The project was built using broken debris, mixed with industrial waste materials - fly ash, gypsum and lime. The walls and modular blocks were cast on site with rudimentary shuttering. The roof structure was made of MS pipes sourced from the Alang shipyard (recycled), on which bamboo was laid with palm mats and completed with 200mm thick thatch. The roof overhang self shaded the walls. Each unit had 2 classrooms, opening on to a central entrance court. These units were strung along the periphery of a raised central plinth with a linear waterbody placed in between a court of trees. The flat site was cut and filled to create a level difference of 1m between the central raised area and the lower classrooms. The classroom unit was thus shielded from the raised plinth allowing a sense of quiet, in an intimate campus. This level difference also created the experience of running one’s hands along the thatched roof-lines, while walking on the plinth. This walk was carefully curated using various architectural tools, right from the entrance to the site, to create a journey along the campus.