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Nandanam Kindergarten Auroville

The document provides details about the Nandanam Kindergarten located in Auroville, India. It was designed by PATH Architects and Planners to be sustainable and harmonious with the natural environment. The kindergarten's classrooms and play areas are flexibly designed to support different activities and changes over time. Climate-responsive strategies like covered walkways and rainwater collection were incorporated.

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Nandanam Kindergarten Auroville

The document provides details about the Nandanam Kindergarten located in Auroville, India. It was designed by PATH Architects and Planners to be sustainable and harmonious with the natural environment. The kindergarten's classrooms and play areas are flexibly designed to support different activities and changes over time. Climate-responsive strategies like covered walkways and rainwater collection were incorporated.

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Nandanam Kindergarten

Auroville
PATH - Planning and Architecture Towards Holistic
Our work is centered on the belief that
Development - create sustainable and harmonious designs in beauty and harmony in the built
planning, architecture and interiors. environment inspires corresponding
harmony and wellbeing in life.
We strive to create spaces that respond to
climate while exploring the various
possibilities with materials and redefining
elements to create forms that flow with the
requirement and the essential spirit of the
place.  

Lalit Kishor Bhati Shailaja Sudhalkar Bhati


Site Context
Center field, Cultural Zone, close to Matrimandir

Chennai
Auroville
Puducherry

Land Use
Accessibility Educational
Nearest Airport – 9.7 Km Public amenities
Nearest Bus stop – 2.2 Km Commercial
Nearest Railway station – 13 Km
Tamil Nadu

Auroville Site Access


Site Plan
Site Area: 6150 sqm
Ground Coverage: 925 sqm
Built up area: 737 sqm
No of Floors: 1
Year of Completion: 2014
Phases of Construction - 4
Architect: Path Architects and Planners
Climate response strategies
Site Context
Center field, Cultural Zone, close to Matrimandir

Chennai
Auroville
Puducherry

Tamil Nadu
Site Plan
Site Area: 6150 sqm
Ground Coverage: 925 sqm
Built up area: 737 sqm
No of Floors: 1
Year of Completion: 2014
Architect: Path Architects and Planners

Auroville
Classrooms of the Kindergarten are designed as to
maximize the variety of uses mirrors the flexible pedagogy
of Nandanam.
Construction of a slab with terracota pots
Laying of Filler Slab with matkas used as filler material.
View of the Courtyard from the 'Street'
The corridor is designed as a 'street,' an
extension of the teaching space between
Sand Pit outside a classroom the classroom and the courtyard, and
Covered walkway connecting to the Sand pit covered by a acts as a common semi-covered
trellis. classroom.
Semicovered Play Areas
Laying precast beams on Steel Trusses Playful openings on the walls make the space inte
Precast hollow terracotta beams were made for the children.
simultaneously with the load bearing walls, aiding in a
speedy construction process
Assembly Room
The foyer is used to hold the daily Morning Assembly and
VIew from the Classroom Window prayer.
View of the 'street' - corridor
View of the Corridor from a playful wall.
A panoramic view of the entrance with the rest of the
block.

View of the spouts that bring down the rainwater from


roofs to points of collection
Activity Room

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