Keshav Narayan K

1005-S

The brief is to design a secondary school for the eighth, ninth and tenth grades in the erstwhile princely town of Dhrangadhra, which is at the edge of the Little Rann of Kachchh. The school is to be built as an extension to a previously existing higher secondary school in the site containing eleventh and twelfth grades of the science stream .This project is an attempt to rejuvenate the school as a celebrated daily public space, which can be used by the community after school hours which is necessary in our changing urbanized life. One of the key considerations in the project has been to integrate the different parts of the campus built across different time periods so as to communicate as a whole through visual and spatial connections, and to leave more land free for communal spaces. The historical city is marred by the presence of DCW factory which produces fly ash as waste. Hence fly ash brick as a building material has been used in the project. The design process includes (a) Climate responsive design for a hot, semiarid region, (b) design solutions to environmental issues such as resource conservation, land degradation Etc (c) utilization of industrial waste (fly ash) in DCW Factory (d) interpretation of traditional wisdom and knowledge that community members possess through cultural construction practices