The Hanifl Centre for Outdoor Education was designed by NMA as a new facility for Woodstock School Mussoorie, India’s leading international residential school, on the footprint on an old structure that suffered extensive earthquake damage in 1991. The centre’s design employs both passive and active systems for thermal comfort and energy conservation. The design enables direct and borrowed light in reaching the deepest parts of the centre. A combination of ‘Trombe-walls’, solaria, contribute to creating warmth when Mussoorie’s winter temperatures are low, and solar hot water systems produce hot water. The centre’s innovative rainwater harvesting system not only collects water during rain but also synchronously treats it allowing it to integrate with the school’s water storage network. Click on the link below to see Woodstock School talk about this unique facility with its unique programme in its picturesque Himalayan setting.