Connect January 2021

This school for 1200 students occupies a prominent corner of this master planned mixed use development. The school design distributes the program across two blocks, the east one for all the classrooms and the west for all common and co-curricular program. The space created between these two blocks forms a common vertical volume. This skylit atrium creates a visual connection across all floors and a dynamic scale that is experienced from the bridge like cross over connections.

As passive climatic response, the design facilitates - Natural air intake, cross ventilation and improved indoor air quality within classrooms. Ventilation fans installed in the roof skylights creates a stack effect to draw hot air from the classrooms and ventilate through the roof. Daylight optimization by correctly sizing windows and Control of internal glare by shading fins and overhangs on the façade will provide visual and thermal comfort for teaching spaces.