Centre for Education, Primary Level Learning and Living Cluster

Image courtesy of Shirish Beri & Associates.

The staff note that the children are more joyful, creative, spontaneous, less isolated and violent in this new environment.

The centre for education with guest rooms for resource persons is at one end, with beautiful view of the pool and the hills.

The primary school learning living cluster with its necessary staff quarters comes next - Planned around the ficus tree, with covered interaction spaces for the Panchgani climate.

Image courtesy of Shirish Beri & Associates.

The dinning hall radiates from the hub of the silver oak tree. The independently accessible first floor has the transparent art centre activities.

The general staff housing comes after this - and forms an entrance portal for this campus - physically and metamorphically as a kind of guardian function.

The whole organically designed complex is also an expression of a large extended joint family, each carrying out his own work independently, but at the same time joined strongly to the whole. Thus there are no segregated, different buildings. The design also seeks to find an expression for shared coherent meaning of this particular milieu.

Image courtesy of Shirish Beri & Associates.

Today the children & staff are very happy to work in this new environment. They say, it has brought BEAUTY and JOY to the learning here. Many of the children related the central ficus tree as their best friend in their essay "My Best Friend"

Architecture thus plays an important role of acting as a catalyst in the learning process.

Credits

• Text and Photographs, courtesy of Shirish Beri & Associates

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