ARWACHIN INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL, DILSHAD GARDEN

INTRODUCTION
•The land used for the construction of this school is 2 acres out of which 1/2 acres is the
playground.
•The school has been divided into three blocks which are interconnected to each other
through 3-4 m wide corridors.
•There are three entries into the school premises.
•one leading to the administrative block and the other leading to the blocks where
classes are held.
•The school has proper provisions for science labs (physics, chemistry, biology) along
with a social science lab and 2 computer labs separate for each department.
•Maximum area around the school is paved.

SUN PATH AND WIND DIRECTION

GEOGRAPHICAL
LOCATION
ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN IV
SURROUNDINGS
SCHOOL CASE STUDY
•The school is surrounded by roads
which leads to a good connectivity.
•On one side runs Guru Teg Bahadur SUBMITTED BY
road. SOMESH SIDHARTH(007)
•On the other side is Badrinath Mandir APARAJITA MALHOTRA(019)
Road. PRAKRITI GOEL(033)
•The gate near the administration block ARSHIA CHHIBBER
is connected via the Gurudwara Road. SANYAM CHANANA (042)
•The school shares more than 2/3 of AISHWARYA LOOMBA
one of its boundaries with a barren SEM 4 SEC A
land. B.ARCH
•Also it has Siddharth international SHEET NO. REMARKS
Public School in the same lane as
itself.
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DESIGN FEATURES
•The building is east- west oriented with windows running throughout
the wall encouraging maximum amount of daylight entering the
premises.
•Initially the two building blocks that consists of the classrooms were in
the reverse positions but later the positions were changed to what they
are now by the department of urban planning and was designed based
on  the vastu shastra.
•There are a total of about 41 classrooms with occupancy of 30-35
students with each class holding up to 3 sections. And the area being
about 5-6^2 m.
•  The administrative block uses the concept of double height ceiling,
and is segregated from the rest of the blocks.
•Courtyard planning is the major feature if the building, the concept has
•Two emergency exits at the ground floor at extreme
been used  majorly in school blocks for open air theatre and canteen.
•The open air theatre has an occupancy of about 90 students, and can ends leading to open area  are provided.
•Nets are used on every floor in the courtyard planned
seat an entire batch at a time. ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN IV
•Corridors use natural light which is obtained from the windows that block to prevent entry of foreign beings.
•Column based network of supporting has been
run from wall to wall. SCHOOL CASE STUDY
 replaced by coffers from second floor onwards.
•The school is barrier free and is been provided with
the facilities of lifts and ramps. SUBMITTED BY
•Science labs are on the second floors so that proper SOMESH SIDHARTH(007)
ventilation is there while dealing with the chemicals. APARAJITA. MALHOTRA(019)
PRAKRITI GOEL(033)
also the room sizes for the science labs are different.
ARSHIA CHHIBBER
•among the two classroom blocks, one has 6
SANYAM CHANANA (042)
classrooms on each floor and the other has 7 AISHWARYA LOOMBA
classrooms on each floor. SEM 4 SEC A
•the library is relatively small and can house B.ARCH
approximately 35 students at a time, sufficient for one SHEET NO. REMARKS
class at a time.
•Corridor has a width of about  2.5m.
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Secondary
classroom

library

GROUND FLOOR FIRST FLOOR ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN IV

SCHOOL CASE STUDY

The school building has
•Their own solar panels which produces 100% energy during the working hours. SUBMITTED BY
•The windows are placed in such a way that the daylight enters during working SOMESH SIDHARTH(007)
hours so the use artificial lighting is barely required APARAJITA. MALHOTRA(019)
•The building is well ventilated PRAKRITI GOEL(033)
hallway
•They conserve , treat and reuse the water as they have their own water treatment ARSHIA CHHIBBER
plan SANYAM CHANANA (042)
•The building enclosing the open air theatre provides shade to it helping reduce the AISHWARYA LOOMBA
heat, and thus the need to. SEM 4 SEC A
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ANALYSIS
•NEGATIVE SPACES UTILISED WELL FOR MAY
ACTIVITIES
•USE OF COFFERS HELPS PROVIDE A COLUMN FREE
SPACE ON THE SECOND FLOOR WHICH CAN ALSO BE
USED AS A MULTIPURPOSE HALL
•THE BUILDING ENCLOSURE AROUND THE O.A.T.
PROVIDES SHADE TO THE CORRIDOORS AND
CLASSROOMS LOWER THE INSIDE TEMPERATURE OF
THE ROOMS
•THE IRREGULAR SHAPE OF THE BUILDING KEEPS ALL
ROOMS TO BE FULLY VENTILLATED
•MUCH ARTIFICIAL LIGHT ISNT REQUIRED DURING
THE DAY BECAUSE OF THE WIDE GLAZED WINDOWS
•THE SCHOOL IS LOCATED IBESIDE TWO OTHER
SCHOOLS WHICH IS A DISADVANTAGE
•THE ROADS ARE ALSO NOT SO WIDE AROUND THE
SCHOOL WHICH CREATES CHAOS AROUND THE
SCHOOL SOMETIMES.

THIRD FLOOR

SECOND FLOOR ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN IV

SCHOOL CASE STUDY

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SOMESH SIDHARTH(007)
APARAJITA. MALHOTRA(019)
PRAKRITI GOEL(033)
ARSHIA CHHIBBER
SANYAM CHANANA (042)
AISHWARYA LOOMBA

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