Rural School and Community Centre

Project idea

What can architecture do for a rural community. This project is an exploration of architectural space as a social force.

Project description

The forms conceived are very basic modifications and alterations of the landscape to mould habitable spaces out of them. This can be segregated into 3 disticnt zones, each with different levels of natural modification. The fist is the community hall: the most basic, it is essential only a few cutouts in a sloping landscape created to access the classrooms above. The second is the block in between the community and the Educational. This block is a cubiod forms which house the offices, canteen, medical and other spaces that will service both the educational and the communities needs. The third is the eductional block. The most modified it houses the common facilities on the lower level and classrooms on the upper level all arrayed along a wide corridor.

Technical information

The village this building is supposed to serve is not reachable via conventional road infrastructure. This made the design opt for locally available basalt stone and laterite bricks for the walls and minimising the use of RCC. The spaces conceived are

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