Project : RBANMS school extension
Completion Year: 2018
Built Area: 165Sq.mt.
Project location: Bengaluru, Karnataka
Clients: RBANMS Educational Trust

A single classroom extension to a primary school for the underprivileged of the neighbourhood of central Bangalore created an opportunity of making the room like a tree house nestled between theexisting mango and jack fruit tree so that it could make a diverse space for assembly, parentteacher meetings, children’s activity and break / lunch area.

Although the initial requirement was an additional class room alone on the ground level, it was proposed to make a multifunctional space would not block the ground and open new possibilities of usage, during different times of the day. Using a metal structure, it is made as a pavilion with perforated sheet and bamboo matts above and aninsulated roof.

The school now has a focus area next to the play area, used forsimple things like pick up and drop off for children, dining, play, congregation / assembly etc. The classroom above helped createsomething that the school was not aware of and was missing greatly.

A place that could be made by virtueof just the classroom addition integrated to the stair and main building block of the school.

The landscape strategy with the existing trees, without getting affected also created these trees as the focal points of activities around. The plinth created outside the class room, around the drinking water fountain, around the existing beautiful large trees and the edge of the play area / sand pit create a strong character with their fluid outline – visually soft and much used.

The school being an older entity had no strategy to deal with the rain water and in the process of the treatment of the ground it was integrated for its harvesting and recharge of the ground water table.