Tashu Sureshbhai Dantani

IR2033

CURIOUs MINDS

The intent was to build a primary school for 100 children of age group 6 to 10 years old. The aim of the school is to help children grow into thinkers and problem solvers. Who can contribute to society with their skills and knowledge by finding solutions to existing problems. By keeping the aim in the center system and pedagogy of the school as well the spatial organization and function of the spaces have been derived. With the consideration of site context and by responding to existing site conditions and spaces has been derived. The entire spatial organization follows two major axes which are responding to the climatic conditions, at the same time the entire organization is following the idea of curiosity.  
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Abstract poster on what the school will be was created.

After studying different pedagogies and systems, new pedagogy and systems were developed for the school.

After deciding the pedagogy and system for the school, a case study was done on a school which was nearly having the same area on which the school was going to be designed.

From this case study learning of the scale of the spaces for children, dimensioning, need of the classroom spaces, and how the spatial organization of the school affects its functioning was studied.

After understanding the functioning of the school from previous studies, the need for spaces as per pedagogy and the need of school space, as well as considering the child as primary user quality and area of the spaces were analysed. Based on this to develop optimum proximity and connections between spaces adjacency of the spaces were decided.

After choosing the key idea of the space as curious, and understanding what the curious means, an abstract model was developed by using different elements of space making as well considering how it generates curious experience.

By responding to the climatic conditions of the site as well the need for school spaces was developed with the alignment of two major axes, with the idea of curiosity.

Sections and elevations show the experience and the function of the spaces inside the school. As well as how the boundary of the school represents the idea of curiosity, by hiding itself as well revealing something at the same time as something is visible and something is not.

Classrooms are the spaces where the child spends most of the time, to make that more fun and customizable design of the classroom has been done as well the roof and positioning of windows respond to the climate and generate natural ventilation.

Isometric of the entire school is showing how all the spaces together will come as an entire organization. As well the site plan shows the school with its context.