SCHOOL FROM SCRAP

ALEX JOSEPH, PRINCIPAL ARCHITECT, MYSPACE ARCHITECTS, ALONG WITH DEEPTI FOUNDATION, HAS CONVERTED A JUNKYARD INTO A SCHOOL.

To new and naïve eyes, the site surroundings of this project would look like an elegant assembly of dark hills, with the school building sitting in the valley. In grave reality, these hills are just humongous piles of garbage coming from major parts of the city and decaying for over a decade. This is one of Delhi’s largest dumping grounds in Ghazipur. The fortunate city-gentry has inherently declared this location as a social reject, and visiting it, a taboo. It might come as a shock to some that there is a well-populated community living along these trash hills only to make ends meet from rag-picking.

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