School Design

case study
WAQAR
WHAT IS PRIMARY
SCHOOL?

A primary school or elementary school is a school in which children

receive primary or elementary education from the age of about five
to twelve, coming after preschool and before secondary school . In
most parts of the world, primary education is the first stage of
compulsory education, and is normally available without charge.
Functions Of A Primary School

 Administrations - Principle's Room, Office Rooms, Teacher's Rooms Cash

reception, Information Room, IT Room, Service Room,
 Doctor's Chamber, Parent's waiting room, Parent's meeting room, Exam Control
Room, Controlling Zone, Conference Room, Vice principle Room
 Education - Class Rooms, Library Common Room Computer lab
 washroom, dress changing room/ locker room
 Recreation- Assembly hall, Canteen, Hall room, Prayer room, Play
 1 1 Ground car/bus parking Auditorium
Basic information

 Architects - Biome Environmental Solutions

 Location - Sarjapur Rd, Byraveshwara Industrial Estate, Bengaluru ,
Karnataka 560091 , India
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 Design Team - Chitra Vishwanath Anur ag Tamhankar Sharath Nayak
Soujanya Krishnaprasad, Prasenjit Shukla, Lekha Samant, Stiibani
Choudhar y
 Area - 985.0 square meter
 Project Vear - 2016
 Site Area - 1955 square meter
Requirements

 REQUIREMENTS - UTMOST FREEDOM IN ORDER TO VALUE THE

INFINITE RESOURCES OF THEIR HANDS, EYES, AND EARS AND OF
FORMS, MATERIALS, SOUNDS, AND COLORS
 Teaching Method - Diverse mentorship
 Number of Class rooms - 4
 FOR - CHILDREN OF AGE RANGE 5-1O YEARS
Main theme

 The permanence of a building may no longer be a prerequisite in its design it is

necessary to allow material recovery and recycling or reconstruct the same
building elsewhere - anything but create debris
 that will occupy landfills."
Concept

 It is well known that children in their formative years are responsive to their
everyday surroundings, experiences, and routines. Borrowing from this, The
Reggio Emilia Approach focuses on the centrality of the hundred languages of
children wherein they require utmost freedom in order to value the infinite
resources of their hands, eyes, and ears and of forms, materials , sounds, and
colors. Designed by Bangalore's Biome Environmental Solutions, this pre-school
is an example of a sustainable building whose design submits to the enhancement
of a sensorial, exploratory learning experience.
Land information

 Situated on a leased land in close proximity to a warehouse and a construction activity site
the building aspires to create an architectural experience that mutes all external noise,
focalizing attention internally. Owing to the visible conditions and the invisible
experiential constraints around the site, the architects lead the design in this direction. The
essence of this project lies in its transposability.
Site access

 It sits compactly on a 1955 square meter site that is accessible from the northeast.
The building is conceived as one large volume of 985 square meters with its
plinth extending into outdoor play areas on the northern, southern and north-
eastern sides. A light galvanized metal roof sloping from the south to north
shelters the entire school. On entering the building, the individual spaces
eloquently dissociate from the whole. With an unassuming permeable external
and an understated interior, the architects have tactfully managed to unite the
inside to the outside.
Background story

 The school sits in a neighborhood with constant construction activity and a go

down is in its immediate vicinity. Creating a learning space for a young age group
on such a site required that the school be an enclosed and protective space. The
site factor played a key role in the design, along with the Reggio­Emilia education
approach itself , on which the school is based
Plan
Bubble diagram
Layout detail

 The layout is composed of classrooms, a studio/atelier and a childhood

stimulation center around a central piazza that allows for transition between
these spaces. Each classroom additionally comprises of a mini-atelier for smaller
group activities. The varied internal spaces of learning are awash with daylight
that filters through a generously sky-lit roof .
Interior
Design feature

 Drawing analogy from the traditional gurukul setting, eight structural columns
similar to a branching tree support the sloping roof.
 As a result, the roof is at a perceivable scale giving those under it the opportunity
to interact not only with each other but also with the architecture. The offices are
tucked away on a southwest mezzanine. The four corners enclose secondary
spaces including a cafe to the southeast and basic utilitarian services to the
northwest.
MEZZAN IN FLOOR PLAN

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East elevation
Design feature

 The building consist of four classroom a studio and a childhood stimulation

center around central piazza with filter spaces allowing transation between the
allowing and piazza
Design feature

 The toilet is designed with consideration to the young age group cubical scale
appropriately for children as well as their need to be supervised open drain in the
wash area and urinal wall are incorporated for ease of use maintenance
Conclusion

 The architects have approached educational design with a balance understanding

of the physical and metaphysical of the site and the end user respectively too
quote juhani pallasmaa we feel pleasure and protection only when the body
discover its resonance in spaces the architecture of atelier partakes in one of such
sublime delights of agronomic proportion that engage the senses it embrace the
fluidity of the internal spaces and yet is mindful of the simple geometry that it is
enclosed within.