A CONTEMPORARY GURUKUL

The project 'Vinaya' designed by KNS Architects brings culture and function together to achieve the most desirable environment for education.

The Indian way of living is influenced by interactive community living spaces. The key component of any educational environment is communication and interaction keeping students actively engaged with the content and each other; helps promote student success and leads to true innovation. The project is inspired from these components bringing culture and function together to achieve the most desirable environment for education.

The site is an annexure of the university campus surrounded by a playground on its south-east, existing hostel block on its south-west, main road on the Northeast and an open land on the north-west.

The challenge was to spatially orchestrate four diverse functions-lecture hall, administration, multi-purpose hall and hostel block-keeping them connected and distant at the same time.

The key factor in the design process was to enhance student interaction within the indoor spaces that percolates outward and interacts with the landscape around it. Another challenge was to consume the permissible built-up area within the height constraints.