Sustainable design for educational infrastructure in industrial zones (Page 2)

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The building is designed with a compact physical footprint to allow for much larger open play areas within the limited space available. Secondly, as the design process evolved, the facility was modeled on the logic of resource efficiency as a base, whether in terms of water, daylight, building materials, land, etc. Space design in the school averages 2Sqm/child in the classroom and provides equivalence with the best of facilities and national education norms. A number of child-friendly elements including pre-primary runner boards, in class, accessible shelving for "teaching learning educational material", display reapers, storytelling corners, arches and ramps as inbuilt play elements aim at creating a stimulating environment, enabling the pedagogic emphasis on the play-way method of teaching. The school is designed for easy access for the physically challenged from among the worker's children as well. Besides providing access ramps and a disable-friendly toilet/restroom, a dedicated class-space has been earmarked for special equipment for the differently-abled children.

Besides possessing a compact physical footprint, the construction activity's footprint was also compacted to avoid noise and pollution related disturbance to the existing small school, which was functioning simultaneously. This was worked out by separating most of the greens and the existing school into a separate enclave and providing a separate entry for workers and the building material. The building site also had provisions for waste dumping and building material storage to avoid pollutants seeping into the soil, and a separate temporary worker's facilities.

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