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Case of Schooling in an Urban Environment, Surat
Foundation Studio
2020
Urban schooling campus is set to grow rapidly in the future but the condensed urban conditions near all existing schools/institutes in Adajan (region of Surat) are least conducive for its operation and expansion in future. The hindered public transport mobility, Active Edge encroachment, Urban Noise, Safety issues (through vicinity breach) cannot be stabilised in a disordered urban operation falling adjacent to the existing institutes and makes the idea of urban schooling/campus more concrete by questioning the physical built of the existing school buildings under the architectural realm.
The proposed integrated educational complex seeks to be an urban oasis by bringing in intersecting recreational & learning spaces between urban-institutional users relying on integrated tectonics and breaking the stereotypical programme segregation of confined teaching-learning experience into open interactive participation between different age groups.
The structural system that was developed in the previous stage was integrated into the building to weave in the aspects of architectural program and tectonics as one architectural intervention.
The Building project consisted of an R.C.C structure till G+2 at its bottom to provide structural stability to the developed system. The structural system then allows its spanning to stretch to 80M high from the R.C.C Pedestal.
