Marble lattice surrounds the entrance to a paramedical college in Agroha, India, clad in red sandstone by architecture practice SpaceMatters.
The Vidya Devi Jindal Paramedical College is located at Agroha's Institute of Medical Science.

SpaceMatters based its form on the Corbusier-style structures of the surrounding campus, as well as the ancient Agroha Mounds that date back to the 4th century BCE.
"The paramedical college was designed to be a mound emerging from the earth, hence the low, horizontal form," said SpaceMatters.

Organised around a central courtyard containing an amphitheatre, a two-storey L-shaped block houses the main library to the west.
A taller block of labs and offices is to the east.

The lattice-clad foyer sits in the southern corner where these two blocks meet. It projects slightly from the square footprint of the college to declare it as the building's entrance as well as providing ventilation and shade.

This marble lattice's pattern is based on the cuneiform symbols used by the Harappan, India's earliest known urban civilisation.
The taller block of Vidya Devi Jindal Paramedical College is clad in red sandstone.

On the ground floor, the library opens up to the surrounding with a glazed curtain wall.
Concrete mushroom-shaped columns run around its fully glazed facade.
The storey above, wrapped with concrete louvres, shelters this library space with its overhanging floorplate, creating a shaded circulation space around the library's perim...