Udavi School in Auroville, India covers 18 acres and educates students from kindergarten through high school. The site includes blocks for different grade levels as well as areas for sports, tailoring, music, and model making. Architect Poppo Pingel designed the buildings to explore sustainability using local and renewable materials like brick, clay, and stone. The high school blocks house classrooms, labs, and assembly areas. Secondary features include courtyards, ponds, and shaded gathering spots to help cool the campus given Auroville's warm climate. However, the narrow access road and lack of furniture in some buildings need improvement for student and teacher convenience.
Udavi School in Auroville, India covers 18 acres and educates students from kindergarten through high school. The site includes blocks for different grade levels as well as areas for sports, tailoring, music, and model making. Architect Poppo Pingel designed the buildings to explore sustainability using local and renewable materials like brick, clay, and stone. The high school blocks house classrooms, labs, and assembly areas. Secondary features include courtyards, ponds, and shaded gathering spots to help cool the campus given Auroville's warm climate. However, the narrow access road and lack of furniture in some buildings need improvement for student and teacher convenience.
Udavi School in Auroville, India covers 18 acres and educates students from kindergarten through high school. The site includes blocks for different grade levels as well as areas for sports, tailoring, music, and model making. Architect Poppo Pingel designed the buildings to explore sustainability using local and renewable materials like brick, clay, and stone. The high school blocks house classrooms, labs, and assembly areas. Secondary features include courtyards, ponds, and shaded gathering spots to help cool the campus given Auroville's warm climate. However, the narrow access road and lack of furniture in some buildings need improvement for student and teacher convenience.
Udavi School in Auroville, India covers 18 acres and educates students from kindergarten through high school. The site includes blocks for different grade levels as well as areas for sports, tailoring, music, and model making. Architect Poppo Pingel designed the buildings to explore sustainability using local and renewable materials like brick, clay, and stone. The high school blocks house classrooms, labs, and assembly areas. Secondary features include courtyards, ponds, and shaded gathering spots to help cool the campus given Auroville's warm climate. However, the narrow access road and lack of furniture in some buildings need improvement for student and teacher convenience.
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CASE STUDY
UDAVI SCHOOL, EDAYANCHAVADY, AUROVILLE- 605101
KEY PLAN
Udavi school, auroville is a 20 minute drive from
matri mandir. It is a government aided institution. TOTAL SITE AREA: The school site covers an area of 18 acres. The built area in total is 7 acres. SURROUNDING LAND USE: The site is surround by dense trees on all the sides. APPROACH: The building approached by 3m narrow road towards its northeast side.
ARCHITECT: POPPO PINGEL
(AUROVILAN ARCHITECT) His idea was to explore sustainability but not just to introduce the many renewable and appropriate technologies developed in Auroville.
CLIMATE - AUROVILLE The climate in Auroville is semitropical and the main monsoon stretches from October till December. From December to March the daytime temperature is between 24C and 30C. Occasional rainfall in July brings the temperature down. Nights are generally about 5C cooler than the days. The average rainfall is 1,230 mm. a year. The prevailing wind blows from the southeast.
COMMUTATION The bus stop is located at a piece of land that belongs to auroville, opposite to the main entrance. There is a single bus that operates for the school It has a seating capacity of 35. The rest of the students of this school come by cycles, walk or by their own transport.
INFERENCES There is a major inconvenience in the access road. Its a narrow road, leading to the school. This may prove to be a disadvantage, during the school hours, especially during mornings and evenings.
SECONDARY BLOCK
SPORTS
TAILORING
LAB
SPORTS
MUSIC SCHOOL
HIGH SCHOOL BLOCK
HIGH SCHOOL BLOCK
STAFF QUARTERS
BUBBLE DIAGRAM
AUDITORIUM
MODEL MAKING ROOMS
ENTRANCE
KINDERGARDEN BLOCKS
SITE MAP
SITE MAP
KINDERGARTEN BLOCK
HIGH SCHOOL BLOCKS
THE SITE HAS BLOCKS AND SPACES THAT
INCLUDE Primary Block Secondary Block High School Block Staff Quarters Activity Area Sports Area Model Making Room Tailoring Room Language Room Music Open Area
THE HIGH SCHOOL
The high school has 2 separate blocks
BLOCK 1
Block 1 consists of 10 class rooms and it includes math lab, science lab, English lab, activity room. The labs are located on the second floor. The capacity of each classroom ranges from 12-15 students.
The block has 3 staircase
in which 2 staircase are located on its east and west side of the building. Another staircase is located at the centre of the block. Each class is of dimension of each class is 6mx5m with a strength of 15 students . The building has g+1 floors.
BLOCK 2 The second block consists of 6 classes. Each class is of 6mX5m. The block has stair case in west side and in the centre. The front face has archaded openings done by exposed brick masonary. Open assembly hall which upto 1m long linear fencing stones . The floor has cement flooring. It has trees and shrubs on the surrounding of the assembly area.
INFERENCES
The classes are
conjusted due to the size and seating arrangement of the furniture. The tables and chairs can be replaced so that the circulation spaces provide easy movement.
MATERIALS USED The materials used in the building are Brick Clay Concrete Mangalore Tiles Bison Board Stone In the higher secondary block the front faade has exposed brick archaded work. Here they used second class bricks manufactured in auroville.
FEATURES
Casement windows Casement Window details
Brick Arcade
THE ASSEMBLY SPACE
THE OUT DOOR
ASSEMBLY AREA IS SURROUNDED BY 1M LONG STONE BLOCKS. THE AREA HAS LARGE TREES ON ITS SURROUNDING AND HELPS IN MAINTAINING COOL TEMPERATURE.
INTERACTION SPACES THE BANIYAN TREE SURROUNDED BY CIRCULAR RING OF SEATING MADE UP OF LINEAR STONES . THE SPOT ACTS AS THE GATHERING SPOT FOR THE CHILDREN . THE STUDENTS SPEND MOST OF THEIR FREE TIME BY PLAYING UNDER THAT TREE.
TAILORING ROOM The tailoring room is open for both, the local aurovilan people as well as for students.
The roof of the tailoring
room is made of R.C.C. precasted inverted u shaped frames.
THE SECONDARY SCHOOL
THE SECONDARY SCHOOL
BLOCK CONSISTS OF
Prayer hall 4class rooms Library Drawing room with mezzanine level Play/activity area Restrooms Open seating area 2 ponds Rock passage
THE PRAYER HALL
The prayer hall has a capacity
of 60 students. The east side wall of the prayer hall has windows from the ground level to the ceiling. The have movable louvers attached to it. Which can be adjusted according to the sun light. The roof of the prayer hall has vaults of bricks which is suspended on concrete beams and columns which run on the either side of the building.
DRAWING ROOM The drawing room is the most striking feature in the block The drawing room has a mezzanine level in it . The stairs leading to the mezzanine is cut out from rocks . The stairs do not have railings and it freely suspended on one end and it is supported in its other end by a connection to the wall. The mezzanine level has a vaulted roof and it has large windows on it.
MATERIALS USED
Brick with less
concrete Stone Wood
The building has very less amount of concrete
used and hence it absorbs very less heat.
The building has larger windows with movable louvers attached to it ,which could be adjusted according to the sunlight. The building has large vertical louvers in it which are inclined to an angle so that the direct sunlight does not enter into the building and brings in large amount of light in to the building.
I N F E R E N C E S
The
building has large pond in the center which is 2
feet deep. The pond here acts as an aesthetic element but at the same it cool up the area and helps in maintaining moderate temperature in the building. But the disadvantage is that this feature is tedious for secondary school children while playing around the corridor.
I N F E R E N C E S
ROOF DETAILS The roof consists of 4 layers Roof tiles Mixture of cement and thermacole in the ratio of 1:6. this acts as a heat insulating material. Asbestos sheet R.C.C. frame work. Bison Board.
FURNITURES AND INFERENCE
There is no convenient furniture in the primary and secondary school blocks. o This proves to be a disadvantage and therefore furniture must be provided for convenience. o
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