This document outlines the requirements for a small archival building, located in the tropics, that would be used to store and preserve valuable archival records. Such buildings can be quite expensive to construct and maintain, and it is recognised that many institutions do not have the funds to acquire a ‘state of the art’ facility. The following brief aims to illustrate the key requirements for building an archival facility, while keeping the costs as low as possible. The building described in this brief is approximately 384 square metres in size, of which the repository would be about 224 square metres. A design brief and possible layout for a small archival building are included in the attachments.