THE HERITAGE SCHOOL

Architects : Madhav Joshi And Associates

 LOCATION
 Located at Talegoan, Pune, Maharashtra
Maharashtra
 Area : 6200 m^2

Pune
CLIMATE
 Tropical climate in Talegoan Dabhade, Pune
 Average annual temperature : 24 deg. C ( 75.2 deg. F )
 Annual rainfall :1093 mm
 April is the warmest month with an average of 27.9 deg. C
 January is the coolest month with an average of 21.5 deg. C
 MATERIAL
• Local basalt stone walls,
terracotta clad concrete
roofs, plain glass windows
• Complementing
juxtaposition of solids and
voids making each building
• Brings together local
building craft and
international sensitives
ZONING
Zone A : Academic

Zone B : Residential cluster

Zone C : Ancillary facilities

 PLANNING
• Total 10 acres of land
• 2 parts – academic and residential cluster
• Construction area – 6200sqm

• residential cluster consists of

 10 dormitories
 5 studio apartments for warden
 residence for the principal
 student's centre

• academic cluster consists of

 14 classrooms
 3 laboratories
 2 teacher's rooms
 2 toilet blocks

• Catering Center with dining hall & adequate

service areas have been provided
 CONCEPT
• The emphasis was to design a residential
school with a concept of ‘serial vision’ being
an inherent part of the campus design
• Serial vision - A method to experience the
space and its transformations, a revelation,
changes and contrasts of the built environment
that one can experience when exploring the
space from pressure to vacuum, from
enclosure to exposure, from traditional to
modern, from public to semi-public, from
streets to squares, etc.
 DESING DERIVATIVES
• Basic form of vaulted roofs
• Human scale, serial vision and the
movement concourse in residential cluster
• Built form of dormitory has evolved to
complement the terrain
• Space with formal enclosure and oblique
lines of movement
• Concave and convex roof forms
• All built forms are evolved from a generic built form of dormitory
building
 DESIGN COMPLEMENTS
• Sunlit classrooms
• Variety of interaction nodes on routes
• Scaling up/down of specific activity spaces
• Schools philosophy is complemented by free, non cumbersome
spaces
• Connections of indoors, outdoors
• Blending of private and public spaces
• Solar passive architecture with aesthetic sense
• Positioning of buildings with respect to terrain
• Thick building envelope
• Natural ventilation – stack effect
• Thermally insulated roofs
 ARCHITECTURAL STYLE
• Definite structure with load bearing composite
stone walls
• Form finish concrete
• Infill of brick wall
• Aggregate plaster
• Brings cohesiveness in overall development
• System of parallel bays to contain different
functions
• Curved roofs forms
 SWOC ANALYSIS
• Strength
 Natural ventilation, maximized daylight using skylights, thermally
insulated roofs, eco-friendly surrounding gives an environment like
home to the students which enhances easy learning due to the nature
friendly schooling.
 The Solar Passive Architecture gives a greater advantage to the
building by using natural light to its maximum efficiency.
 The sun, shade, shadow, rain, breeze, trees, fruits, flowers,
fragrances, birds and now pets set forth a pleasant interactive
ambience for ‘a complete learning' experience of the student.
• Weakness
 The Heritage School is built on a sloping terrain of the rural area which is far from the urban
area civilization.
 The school has two parts: Residential cluster and Academic cluster. The residence of the
students is included in the school itself making it difficult to travel far away to the city for
daily basic needs. 
 Omnipresent hillock and the rolling landform makes it difficult to maintain the surrounding of
Challenges
the building.
• Opportunities
• Challenge
 The school is located on a ten acre plot, but the built environment comprises 6,200 square
meters which is a large area of land for proper maintenance. The challenge occurs here is the
maintenance of the surrounding. The hills, landforms, natural environment, weather, seasonal
changes, occurrence of animals and birds makes it difficult in the sustenance of the ecofriendly
nature of the building.
SECTIONS
ELEVATIONS
CONCLUSION

The architectural intervention gives back to nature

in a manner that students would wish to spend their vacation
too in the campus. The peaceful ecofriendly environment
gives an edge to the heritage school for students to enjoy the
campus area and enrich the learning process.
THANK YOU