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<h5-red>Client<h5-red> Piramal Foundation I <h5-red>Area<h5-red> 1,60,000 SQ FT I <h5-red>Status<h5-red> Ongoing I <h5-red>Team<h5-red> Ambrish Arora, Sidhartha Talwar, Dev Tyagi, Mohit Goel, Ansel Colaco, Mantavya, Kashish Singh, Priyanka Jawa
The upcoming Piramal School of Leadership (PSL), part of the Piramal Foundation is the flagship academic institution at its new 32-acre campus outside Jaipur. Its Personal Transformation Centre (PTC) nurtures India’s vast network of public service officials.
Rooted in Tat Tvam Asi (I am who I seek to become), the pedagogy reframes the traditional idea of public service and leadership into Seva Bhaav (spirit of selfless service)
<rt-red>Envisioned as a walled garden, the campus is formed by courtyards and pavilions nested within a super roof and perforated brick skin.<rt-red> Together, they temper light and heat, inviting reflection, movement, and quiet exchange—echoing traditional open-air, shared learning spaces.
Five elemental courtyards—the unbuilt—<rt-red>foster the idea of community by creating opportunities for pauses, chance encounters, and informal exchanges.<rt-red> Each of these courtyards preconditions a different mode of engagement based on the school’s pedagogy—Sports-based learning, Art and expression-based learning, and sensory exercises in vulnerability and trust called Dialogues in the Dark, for example.
The studio’s design for PTC challenges the way architecture often encodes hierarchy—especially within bureaucracy in India, where access, movement, and physical levels reflect deeply entrenched power structures. The building’s morphology instead introduces a fluid, layered pedestrian terrain with 150 slab levels ranging from -4.8m to +8.0m interconnected by a system of ramps that ensures seamless transitions, breaking down visual and physical hierarchies.
The Piramal School of Leadership offers a blueprint for architecture as pedagogy—where space is not a backdrop for instruction, but an enabler for transformation. Through its rejection of hierarchy, embrace of community, and celebration of experiential learning, the school reimagines how leadership is cultivated in India.
This is not a building. It is a landscape for transformation.
