Project Category
Urban Schools
Project Type
Public, Government, Non-Government, CSR
Number of People
1000
Project Location
Urban, Peri- Urban
Issues
Education, Awareness, Modernity, Details, Adaptability, Contextual, Resource Saving, Sustainability
Program Brief
Nirmala convent school is an urban school located within an urban fabric of Rajkot. It is one of the oldest schools for girls and holds a respectable position amongst the top schools in the city. The design brief from clients was to create spaces for girls to cater to outdoor activities.
We as designer added programmatic value to their brief.
We created these landscaped spaces based on organic forms which followed rules of maths, thus adding value to what they learn in class vis-a-vis what they experience as real spaces.
Two outdoor class rooms were created having landscaped elements.
The Site and Design
Two opposite corners of the school campus were to be dealt with to create formulating land value. Both the sites had trees as existing features. These were taken care in a manner in which the formation of seats and plinths designed and executed.
Multilayered stepped space was purposely designed to suit the children scale and size of groups which would use the space at one time.
The Central court demanded a much formal gesture to be dealt with.
This area is normally used daily for morning assembly sessions as well as for larger functions and events.
Here we paved the central court with bricks arranged in a manner that they focus towards the existing stage.
Use of various materials in a linear manner gives a sense of “lines” in the overall flooring pattern. These elements come closer as one approaches the central stage, and thus gives a flavour of dynamism in space, interesting to see from upper level corridors connecting classrooms at both ends.
Materials & Construction Details
For both outdoor class- room spaces the basic material used is brick. It is differently finished with coloured IPS, adding a notion of playfulness in a convent school
The central court prime material is brick and Dholpur square stone and Kesariya green for pieces and strips for junctions and divisions.
Special Features
Special feature of this landscape design is that it breaks away a common notion of beautifying land! Neem Leaf Mosaic under the Neem Tree.
This hard landscape adds meaning to the existing built and adds programmatic value which relates to children education in a school environment.
Project Details:
Client: Principal, Nirmala Convent School.
Address: Nirmala Convent School,
Nirmala Convent School Road (Dr Hedgevar Road), Kailash Nagar, Rajkot: 360007
Contractor: Dineshbhai Pandit and team
Design Team: Parth Shah, Brinda Parth Shah, Rainee Saparia, Priyanshi Shah
