ManavSewa Ashram provides domestic care and institutional services to people all over Nepal who have been deprived of social inclusion, and facing mental health conditions and societal challenges, whether in rural or urban contexts. The Ashram also assists those who have been isolated by their families due to mental health conditions, victims of social crime, and those who need help and care. All of these services are provided through the collective efforts of volunteers, people with good faith, community and government support, and a group of dedicated Ashram officials. In short, it is a place for those in need to call home. The facility is located in the village of Gramthan in Biratnagar and is surrounded by vast open farm fields and local Tharu settlements. The secluded, safe, and humble community makes the location ideal for providing care and services to a planned occupancy of 150 individuals, along with caretakers and volunteers. A local stream flows through the site and has guided the design principles in terms of planning and flow of spaces.

Multiple community interactions on topics such as locally available materials, generational skills and knowledge of using locally available building materials and construction techniques, bamboo and timber crafts, local vegetation and bio-diversity, socio-cultural identity, and the vernacular essence of the place have led to program and design discussions with Ashram officials and local personnel on site. Observations of traditional Tharu settlements in the region and the corresponding lifestyle of that specific Terai region of Nepal have also informed these discussions. This collaborative process has resulted in site and land management ideas on flood management, privacy, and functional planning of proposed programs based on external site factors. The design incorporates the abundant use of bamboo and locally sourced timber, along with earth and thatch, as primary building materials. The design also incorporates the identity of the region through the use of the rammed earth construction method. Utilization of these resources from the initiation to the operation of the facility provides better sustainability in energy and resource management.

Functionally, administrative areas and public spaces with harvest gardens are planned for the northernmost stretch of the site, where the main entrance to the facility is also located. Common services such as dining, kitchen, multi-use spaces, and open areas for Ashram residents have been planned centrally to improve surveillance and circulation. A community hall for events and interaction, a souvenir shop with products made by the Ashram residents with love, and management facilities, along with a private residential block for in-house staff, have been planned for the northern part to segregate the private areas from the public areas. Residential and care facilities are limited to the south side, with a well-separated environment for male and female residents. The isolation care unit is planned near the security post for surveillance. Pockets of coherent open spaces with clear visual perspectives of the outer fields and internal surroundings have been planned for the residential area. Elderly residents have their rooms near the central pavilion for ease of access, while the entire residential area has its own privacy and accessibility. Physically challenged residents need not reach upper levels and have free-flowing access to the landscape. The central pavilion is designed in an elliptical structure that looks both inwards to the courtyard, allowing activity and natural air circulation throughout, and outward to the fields, giving a sense of vast green open space around the major activity area. These types of care facilities should be well thought out, not just in terms of functional requirements and planning, but also in terms of how they interact with people from a visual perspective. The design has a humble take on the local vernacular style of sloped roofs and the use of earth, thatch, timber, and bamboo, making the place familiar for new residents and less stressful on how their environment looks, ultimately giving them a sense of being at home.

Serving the community's needs of promoting local crafts, materials, and technology with a common space for exchange and interaction, the project also reaches out to the exterior surroundings in the form of a community hub, souvenir station, and an organic harvest farm. The project, thus, provides opportunities and events for sharing skilled resources with the communities around and promoting the concept of natural building practices and healthier habitable spaces in the harsh climatic conditions of the Terai region of Nepal. The facility also has an establishment adjacent to it proposed as Senior Citizen's Village, which has a provision of care services to facilitate the Ashram occasionally. The elderly there would have the opportunity to provide services and care to the Ashram in their respective ways. Also, the interactions helped in collecting knowledge from the locals regarding native vegetation species and ways to create a self-sustaining biodiversity that would also contribute to the microclimate of the place.