The two major approaches to Green Architecture: first which looks upon reducing energy consumption in building use and second which focuses more on design approach in order to enhance sustainability. In the presented project, the strategic design of courtyard has resulted into an ‘open plan’. Courtyard has been and still continues to be, an important and integral element of vernacular housing in Gujarat.

Due to its presence, the entire building opens out to nature. Thereby it has a scope to utilize energies of nature via wind, sun in a positive manner, the first step to energy efficient design. The house has symbolically used local and natural materials, specifically mud, as rammed earth, in all the vertical surfaces; inverted mud pans as fillers in roof; compressed earth blocks also in wall; natural stone masonry for walls around the courtyard.