sarkari hiriya prathamika shaale.

Studio Brief And Intent

The main intent of the studio was to design a public building. The Kannada movie ‘Sarkari Hiriya Prathamika Shale’ formed the basis for the studiothe town in which the movie was based in led to the public building being designed to be placed in that environment. The movie gave a wonderful narrative of a community in Kasargod- apart from the depictions of the nature of life in the town, a large part of the movie followed the lives of the children living in the town and their time in school. The public building itself was an extension of the existing school building. As a starting point, the footprint upon which the building were to be designed was given to be 12m*50m.

MENTORS

Kiran Kumar

Shreyas Baindur

SITE LOCATION

Kasargod

SITE AREA

7000 sqm

DURATION

16 weeks

Giving away space in front of the building

Kasargod

12.4996° N, 74.9869° E

Connect between public space and road

Students Of School

Because the public building designed is an extension of the existing school building, the students of the school become important stakeholders.

Public

The design aims to create a space for the residents of the town. In the movie, it was shown that the space in front of publicly used buildings became as important as the building itself. The space in front of the building became a threshold before entering into the building- a space where one can be a part of the space without completely entering into the building.

A number of programs were introduced, all of which were to be integrated into the public building. The first step at approaching these programs was to categorise them on the basis of how ‘public’ they were perceived to be. This categorisation further aided in the positioning of these programs in the building.

The movie ‘Sarkari Hiriya Prathamika Shaale’ became the basis for the semester. The nature of life and the context as shown in the movie became the basis to understand and approach the design.

The key questions that were grappled with this semester were-

1. What is the nature of a Public Building?

2. How does publicness find architectural expression?

3. Given the mixed use program, how does one organise this appropriately ? What frame do we use to bring them together in meaningful ways?

4. How do we critically respond to the particular conditions of a place (the town, its fabric, culture, character)? The main aspect that was looked into was the relationship in between a public space and a public building.

Position of footprint on site

Positioning of footprint-

Reasons for positioning and orientation of public building-

• All of the public building could be seen from the street

• To create scope for design of a public space. Public building becomes backdrop of the public space in front of it

The main idea carried forth from the movie was tbe presence of the public space and public building, and the relation between them. In the movie, it was shown that the space in front of publicly used buildings, such as shops, became as important as the building itself. The space in front of the building became a threshold before entering into the building- a space where one can be a part of the space without completely entering into the building.

The moviement of a user from the road into the public space and then into the public building leads them to encounter a series of possibilities, options and pause points, similar to the character of life and spaces seen in the movie.

The entire proposal aimed to respect and respond to this character.

The key questions that were grappled with this semester were-

1. What is the nature of a Public Building?

2. How does publicness find architectural expression?

3. Given the mixed use program, how does one organise this appropriately ? What frame do we use to bring them together in meaningful ways?

4. How do we critically respond to the particular conditions of a place (the town, its fabric, culture, character)?

The main aspect that was looked into was the relationship in between a public space and a public building.

In the movie, it was shown that the space in front of publicly used buildings became as important as the building itself. The space in front of the building became a threshold before entering into the building- a space where one can be a part of the space without completely entering into the building.

The public space was created by plinth variations, and positioning of the open air theatre along the axis from the road to the building, while the public building was made porous through volumetric deductions and by making the skin porous.

Wall Sections

Wall sections were worked on in order to detail the project to a larger extent. Three main materials were used in the proposal- adobe mud bricks (for walls), bamboo (for porous stilts) and concrete (for slabs and foundation).