ManavSewa Ashram provides domestic and institutional services to people throughout Nepal who have been deprived of social inclusion, facing mental health conditions and societal challenges in both rural and urban contexts and are isolated by their families due to mental health conditions, victims of social crime, or in need of help and care. These services are provided through the collective efforts of volunteers, people with good faith, community and government support, and a group of dedicated officials of the Ashram. Simply put, it is a place to call home for all those in need. The Ashram is situated on the outskirts of the core Biratanagar urban area, amidst large farm fields and local settlements of Bargachhi. The land is comparatively compact and segmented by a park designed for the Ashram, with the facility designed to accommodate 200 residents, including volunteers and caretakers.

Inspired by the vernacular characteristics of courtyard planning in Rana Tharu settlements, the design incorporates multiple blocks around common central open spaces and visually open corridors that provide safe and monitored access to the open space for all the residents of the Ashram. Such pockets of green spaces are connected with semi-open connections for visual linkage as well as proper airflow throughout the circulating areas within the building blocks. Most activity areas, including dining, kitchen, administration, and multi-function spaces, have been planned around the ground level for ease of activity management and surveillance. The built volume has blocks planned in a progressive manner, from front to rear, to minimize psychological intimidation and the grandeur of the building for new residents and visitors, creating a balance between the built and open space of the park within the facility. Within this interconnected volume, privacy and circulation, along with residential areas for in-house staff, male and female residents, and children, have been carefully planned, with isolation care units and provision of medical rooms planned within the ground level. The children's care facility comprises an open study and learning area with access to an open terrace overlooking the landscape to the east, as well as the central courtyard. As the children need a presence of an elder group to constantly take care of them, the staff's residential area lies adjacent to their facility on the same floor. The presence of courtyards and clear corridors allows every space within the structure to have a well-ventilated and naturally daylight atmosphere throughout the day.

The Ashram has a park named Kabir-Vatika, after a notable figure. It is an explorative landscape with varieties of native vegetation and water bodies, contributing to the micro-climate of the place to a certain extent. The park is accessible to the public as well as the residents of the Ashram, ensuring a safe and friendly environment for everyone. The facility has been planned with a bio-gas plant and a rainwater harvesting system for better sustainability of resources in the longer run.

The design incorporates exposed brickwork throughout the volume, with brick dust, commonly Surkhi, mixed with lime as plaster for external application on exposed brick wall surfaces. This represents the warmth of Tharu settlements of the region, while also capturing the local craft skills of Tharu culture on floral and characteristic motifs as an aesthetic as well as cultural representation of local communities. The residential neighborhood of the Rana Tharu community belonging to that place has a welcoming character and social threshold, with a space that allows interaction and pause designed in their entrance to a private household. This identifying characteristic has been translated in the design, with the entrance gate and reception block not just being a property barrier but also a welcoming threshold for Ashram and surrounding green farm fields.