CASE STUDY

RURAL LEARNING
CENTER
YOGESH PATIL SHUBHAM GUPTA RUCHITA DAVANE
 INTRODUCTION
01. •
•
Concept
Style of Architecture
ACADEMIC BLOCK
SITE DETAIL 04. • Blocks
02. •
•
Location
Environment
• Design strategies

• User Behaviour HOSTEL

PLANNING 05. • Blocks

03. •
•
Thought Process
Landscaping detail
• Design strategies

• Structural detail
• Analysis
06. OVERVIEW
 INTRODUCTION
RISHI VALLEY RURAL EDUCATION CENTER

● Location: Madanapalle, Andhra

Pradesh, India
● Type: Private Boarding School
● Category: Educational Architecture
● Established: 1926
● Students: 360
● Age range: 8-17 years
● Founder: Jiddu Krishnamurti
● Architect: Kiran Chandra
 ZONES
● Class rooms
● Labs workshop
● Hostel
● Faculty houses
● Auditorium
● Dining
● Services
 Site Detail

● The rishi school is located in a

sheltered valley, with Rishi konda at its
apex.
● The name rishi has been derived from
rishi who used to do mediation below
the tree
● The banyan tree is believed to be
about three hundred year old and
enjoys the fame of center in the site
location.
● There are Out-door classroom which
runs under the banyan tree.
LAYOUT
 ACADEMIC BLOCK

• The present senior school building

consists of classroom arranged two
courtyard with east-west passage.
• In the centre for entry and exit.
• Large, arid volumes have been
achieved through the development.
• The spaces are true to the philosophy in
that they possess large fenestrations
on the outer periphery.
• The inner edges are contiguous with
the two courtyards, which allow their
occupants have a constant connect
with nature.
 DESIGN DETAIL
• The outer walls are punctured at
regular intervals with large
fenestrations all throughout, which
operate as modules for the division of
spaces.
• Toilet blocks are one fenestrations wide
• while classrooms are two, three or four
fenestrations wide depending on the
subject allotted to that classroom and
strength of the class for the same,
Corner classrooms enjoy seven
fenestrations
• Segregating Junior, Middle and Senior
classroom blocks In order to imbibe
the philosophy in a deeper manner,
individual classrooms blocks have
been segregated and arranged apart
from each other.
• This space planning allows students in
each class to discuss freely without
disturbing the other classes and also
necessitates ‘travelling’ from one class
to another, giving more contact time
with nature
 CLASSROOM and PLAYAREA
● Classroom
accommodate the
youngest of the school
students with facilities
that are suitable for
growth
● The atmosphere is
children-oriented with
scaled furniture and
spaces
● The play area are
adjacent to the
classroom with natural
environment.
● For shading shelters like
huts and jaali wall are
provided
 OUTDOOR CLASSROOM

● The potential for outdoor

classes are provided by
numerous trees , hillocks,
and vast spaces.
● The presence of stone
and cement benches
constructed
concentrically around
many trees allows for
pedagogical exercise in
pleasant weather.
● This situation is enjoyed
more so by the junior
classes as their
curriculum is free from
board exams and can be
structured more flexibly
 ASTACHAL

● As the name suggest,

astachal is the time when
students and teachers go
up the hills to watch the
sunset in quietude.
● Students sitting together
and observing the
evening sky changing
colours have an
opportunity to experience
their thoughts in quit
reflection and come upon
a quality of silence.
● The association of the
ritual with the space it
takes place in is so strong
that the hill is marked on
the site map as ASTACHAL
PLAN AND SECTION
RESEDENTIAL
BLOCK
(HOSTEL)
 RESEDENTIAL BLOCK
• Residences in the School comprise of
around 20 small hostels, called
‘houses’,
• Accommodates a number ranging
from 12 to 20 students within separate
rooms.
• Boys and Girls belonging to classes 4
to 5 live together with older girls of
class six and seven in the same house.
• Older boys and girls live separate
houses, usually with a mixed-age of
two classes being together.
 RESEDENTIAL BLOCK
• Common element in both Old and New
designed building is the central courtyard,
which clearly exhibits the importance of
being in contact with nature, a true
translation if Jiddu Krishnamurthy’s
philosophy.
• Dormitories are open on two sides allowing
for maximum cross-ventilation as well as
visual transparency from the court to the
greenery around.
• Composite screens of steel and local stone
that create climatic buffers while providing
security, wrap the external facades.
• Each house consists of a common room,
pantry guest room and a house parent
quarter.
ISOMETRIC AND SECTION
 “Less is more.”

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