A living-learning spine linking the academic, housing and sports components of the campus is effective in maintaining a low carbon footprint, by enabling seamless connectivity on foot without the need for shuttle buses plying the campus road network. Open spaces between buildings – across which the living-learning spine spans – are lushly landscaped, a welcome respite for faculty members and students hurtling through their daily hectic schedules. An expansive biological pond in the landscape serves as a basin collecting rainwater and surface water run-off for landscape irrigation.