House at the lake edge, Udaipur

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Faculty of Architecture AR2027 Monsoon 2020

Social Learning

Malay Bijal Pandya

Social Learning Catherine Desai, Freyaan Anklesaria

Planning and Organizing

Jury Citation

An intriguing and original school proposal generated through the power of spatial analytics used intelligently to inform more intuitive design methods. The project demonstrated a rigorous, evidence based, approach to architectural synthesis.

Design Description

The school is designed with the help of space syntax which is a system of analysis allowing us to measure spatial organization.

The school creates a system where areas of high integration are spread across different levels. This makes many active spaces where interactions occur, and people gather to work in groups.

To contrast this and facilitate focused learning, the classrooms are made private, almost cut off from the activities in the corridors. The school spatially upturns some established hierarchies, for example, by placing a part of the staff room in a corridor and reinforces some others, like placing the principal and administration being in a separate wing.

The major pedagogical change seen in the school is the presence of separate private levels for the children to work in during free lectures and after school hours. This is done to ensure that the children are completely free when they go home and can invest their time in extracurricular activities.

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