Project Info | |
Site | : Lonavala, Maharashtra, India |
Site Area | : 20,678 Sq M |
Project Area | : 6500 Sqm |
Phase | : Built |
Architects | : NU.DE Architects |
The Program harbours day time school activities as well as cultural activities for the local community.
Within this context an attempt to reconstitute the functions of volume, enclosure and interfacing by means of ribd, voids, decks and varying light-conditions have been made. The vertical fin elements also act as solar shading devices particularly along the southern facade.
The sequencing of spaces withdraws the realm of familiarity and habitual patterns of behaviour that one would normally associate its inhabitants to fall into. Instead the students are confronted with an abstract composition that needs to be discovered and explored in varying degrees of space-time pedagogical related constructs. The sense of adventure, dynamism and the inherent spirit of exploration and discovery amongst children is harboured within the 'playful' and 'dynamic' striated skin of the building.