Detailed Literature Case study of Senior Secondary School

1. ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN –V
SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL
LITERATURE CASE STUDY :
SELAQUI SCHOOL, DEHRADUN
SUBMITTED BY : Anurag Kamal
1304006
S.I.U.P.A, B.Arch

2. SELAQUI SCHOOL
• It is a co-educational and fully residential
school.
• Client’s programme :
o Promote equality of gender
o Train future leaders in multi-cultural and secular
environment

3. LOCATION
• It is located in Doon Valley (Dehradun), heavily forested
on the foothills of middle Himalayas.
• The school campus is located on Dehradun-Chakrata
road about 20 km from Dehradun.

4. CLIMATE AND SITE SPECIFICATION
• Summers are hot and temperature
ranges between 27-41 degree celcius.
• Winters are more pleasant and may
get cold. As the temperature ranges
from 5-27 degree celcius.
• Site area : 52 acres
• Architect : Gurgaon based architect
Amardeep Singh
• Built up :
o School building area – 3 acres (5.8%)
o Facility – 1.3 acres (2.5%)
o Residential – 3.5 acres (6.7%)
• Open area :
o Parking and playground – 44.2 acres
(86%)

5. SITE PLAN

6. PLANNING ANALYSIS
• The layout of the building and the intensive
amalgamation of landscaping element adds to a
quiet and learning environment to the school.
SPORTS FIELD HAS BEEN
INCORPORATED IN
MASTER PLAN WITH
SOME OF THEM
BECOMING A PART OF
HOSTELS.
STAFF SERVICES AND
MAINTENANCE HAS BEEN
PLANNED ADJACENT TO THE
PERIPHERY WITH A SEPARATE
SERVICE ENTRY.
VEHICULAR MOVEMENT IS IN SUCH A WAY THAT MINIMUM
TRAFFIC COINCIDE WITH REGULAR ACTIVITIES HENCE,
ENCOURAGING PEDESTRIAN MOVEMENT.
AROUND THIS COURT ARE THE
MAJOR BLOCKS THAT FORMS THE
BACKBONE OF THE CAMPUS.
THE ACADEMIC BLOCK IS PLACED
IN FRONT OF THE MAIN ENTRYTHE ENTRY ROAD LEADS TO THE
ASSEMBLY AREA WHICH IS PLANNED
AROUND THE FAMOUS PEEPAL TREE OF
CAMPUS.
THE HOSTELS ARE PLACED
SEPARATELY ON THE REAR SIDE
OF THE SITE WITH MINIMUM
DISTURBANCE AND
INTERFERENCE.

7. ZONING
• The various blocks consist of :
o Academic – Offices, Classrooms,
Labs, Teacher’s room, Toilets
o Hostel Block – Separate hostels
for boys and girls with common
room and warden residence
o Staff Housing
o Dining Block – Common dining
for students and staff, Kitchen
o Sports Facilities – Swimming
Pool, Tennis, Basketball, Cricket,
Squash, Horse riding, Football
o Other Facilities – Infirmary
auditorium, sculpture making
workshops

8. DESIGN CONCEPT
• The philosophy of school emphasise on tradition and this is translated into the architecture of the school,
which works in harmony with the tradition of the local architecture.
• Campus type planning has been involved with the integration of clusters and courtyard forms.
• Interconnection of various activity zones is achieved so as to make all the zones easily accessible.
• The application of the concept is achieved by incorporating traditional Indian concept of building
elements like courtyards, verandahs, terraces, jaalis, deep overhangs, local materials, tradition and
craftsmanship.
• The architecture of the campus incorporates the variation of scale that in-turn is an expression of building
function and indent as dining and academic block has more imposing scale compared to the others.
• Confirming to the region as well as to achieve traditional architectural expression, sloping roofs have
been incorporated into the entire complex.
• These sheltering roofs have large overhangs to protect the building from region’s fairly heavy rainfall.

9. ACADEMIC BLOCK
The informal seating spaces are
provided so that they can be used by
students during their free time.
At the exact centre of this academic
building lies the data centre. Being at
the lowest level, the roof of the centre
becomes the connecting bridge
between the blocks.
The academic block is organised around
four courts.
Corridors are singly loaded with good
lighting and are 1.8 m wide.
The architecture is placed in front of the main entry
and side of the court of assembly.
Named Nalanda, after the famous Indian University,
the academic block is designed in various levels.
These levels are negotiated by steps that are on
each of the four sides of courtyard.

10. CLASSROOMS
• Classrooms are bright and airy,
are square in plan with a
chamfered corner.
• All the classrooms are provided
with natural lighting and
display.
• Classroom size – 7.5 m x 7.5 m
• Strength of students – 25-30
i.e. 56.2 sq m for 30 pupils.
• Chalkboard size – 1200 mm x
2100 mm

11. LABORATORY
• Laboratory size – 7.5 m x 12.7 m
• Students strength – 33 i.e. 95 sq m for 33 pupils.
• There are labs for computer, physics, chemistry, biology
in the school.
• Besides working area, technician space, preparatory
space and store is provided.

12. LANDSCAPING
• There is a perfect integration of architecture of
school with its landscape.
• There is an interesting blend of hard and soft
landscape.
• All the parts are lined with shrubs and trees thus
helping to soften the look.
• The layout of the building, the extensive and
luxurious landscaping emerges beautifully with
the surroundings.
• All this adds to a quiet, serene and pollution free
environment which further enhances the living
and learning environment in the school.

13. LANDSCAPING
• Materials
o The buildings are largely built of locally available stone.
o This is the river stone which has been cut and dressed and used as random rubble masonry
o Exposed brickwork has been used in certain buildings to cover RCC elements and to provide
a contrast to monolithic character of stone.
o In certain part of academic block, funicular shell roofing has been used. These provide
distinctive character to the academic building and also reduce the cost of construction.
• Extensive use of hedges
and climbers in the school.

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