The quality of residential spaces visualized for a university campus at that time was also path-breaking and revolutionary. In an era when campuses were designed with the notion that faculty housing and student hostels had to exist in clearly separated parts of the campus, JNU introduced the novel idea of creating 16 residential zones, each having a mix of 600 students and 100 faculty members to foster greater interaction and a quality of academic learning that extended beyond conventional clearances. A typical hostel in JNU houses 200 students in two linear, parallel wings.
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- Strung Course: Life and Work of CP Kukreja, Edited by Aruna Bhardwaj, Bhawna Dandona, Nidhi Dandona and Rahat Varma. CP Kukreja Archives/Sushant School of Art and Architecture, Ansal University, 2019.