Aatam Hostel & House / Sameep Padora & Associates
Aatam has a residential program mix, containing hostels rooms for students along with a residence for the family that owns the plot. Six years in the making, the project is in the dry and hot climate of Kota, Rajasthan. The town of Kota in Northern India is a coaching hub for training students to take entrance exams to study at the coveted IIT engineering colleges in India. Every year around 200,000 students move to Kota spending a minimum of a year at coaching classes living in private hostels specifically made for student housing in the town. The economy of the Kota is driven by this temporal population.
- architects: Sameep Padora & Associates
- Location: Kota, Rajasthan, India
- Project Year: 2022
- Photographs: Suryan // Dang
- Area: 20000.0 ft2