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Architectural Typology
While the smaller buildings of Bhutan tend to be simple unitary masses, larger buildings are composed as complexes, irregular in their overall configuration, but assembled out of smaller symmetrical building components—towers, pavilions, and wings—and are often organized around courtyards.

The monastic buildings of Bhutan have massive exterior walls with few openings at ground level—they are in effect fortifications for these isolated communities. The urban buildings of Bhutan, however, often incorporate loggias and areas of wooden curtain wall. The Master Plan proposes that where appropriate, loggias be provided in the ground floor of new buildings to create shaded passages, and to give buildings a welcoming and permeable perimeter.

Internal courtyards and gallerias, whether open to the sky or illuminated by clerestory windows or sun shaded skylights, will form part of the campus's network of pedestrian pathways.