印度的社会进步行动组织（Action for Social Advancement，缩写为ASA）是一个非营利性的发展组织，其使命是通过重点关注自然资源的开发来确保人民的生计。在中央邦（Madhya Pradesh）、恰蒂斯加尔（Chhattisgarh）、比哈尔（Bihar）和贾坎德邦（Jharkhand）等地的村庄内，水资源是ASA的重点关注对象之一。

ASA的总部办公楼位于博帕尔（Bhopal），致力于向广大群众展示并传播其生态原则。任务书要求本项目在具有一定包容性的同时，能够促进培养一种相互协作的企业和工作文化。项目基地曾是一片农业用地，如今正处于开发阶段。可用于建筑施工的土地位于规划用地的最低标高处，本身就容易遭受到涝灾的侵袭。另外，鉴于黑色棉质土壤的水渗透率较低和因设计不当而产生的流出废物，这片土地长期处于水流淤塞的困境中。

▼办公楼外观，exterior view of the office building ©Pratik Chandresha

Action for Social Advancement (ASA) is a nonprofit development organization whose mission is of ensuring livelihoods through development services with emphasis on natural resource development. Water is one of the key sectors ASA has been involved in, in villages of Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Bihar and Jharkhand.

In its head Office in Bhopal, ASA was keen to showcase its ethos of ecological principles. The client brief required that the space be inclusive and foster collaborative working culture. Site is in a development which was formerly an agricultural land. Land available for the building is situated at the lowest level of the plotted development and tends to get waterlogged. Added to it the nature of Black Cotton soil (low water percolation rate) and the inadequately designed outflows made the water stagnate for a long time.

▼办公楼鸟瞰图，bird-eye’s view of the office ©Pratik Chandresha

设计团队将这一内涝问题视为本项目的挑战，不仅没有盲目地填充和升高土地，反而将水流引入基地内部。最终的建筑体量的首层地面被抬高，剩余的室外部分则被改造成了湿地和阶梯式休息区。这样就可以保护建筑室内空间免受浅层含水层的影响。此外，基于ASA的社会属性，室外的阶梯式休息空间也被作为一个聚集空间服务于周边的社区。

We took this waterlogging aspect as a challenge and instead of filling and raising the land it was decided to welcome the water into the plot. The building was raised up by a floor and the area left below was converted into a wetland and a stepped well. This led to avoidance of flooding and replenishment of shallow aquifer. Building upon the social values of ASA, this stepped well was designed as a gathering space for the community, around.

▼首层地面被抬高，设置湿地和阶梯式休息区，the building is raised up by a floor, creating a wetland and a stepped well ©Pratik Chandresha

▼阶梯式休息空间，the stepped well ©Pratik Chandresha