跃动校园 | Bhadran 中学的红色拱门与自由探索

几乎所有人的童年时光都是在校园中度过的，那里珍藏着人们渺小却珍贵的回忆。沉浸于惊喜，徜徉于蓝天，在充满诗意与哲学的想象世界中开始新的生活……这些美好愿景，是设计团队打造Bhadran校园空间的初衷。在这里，孩子们会慢慢成长，会结交人生中的第一批朋友，还会拥有最初最深的记忆。

▼俯瞰图，aerial view

▼项目概览，overview

Almost all of us have been here in our childhood, and perhaps the closest memories we hold dear are not of significant events, but ironically of the insignificant ones. Of losing oneself to wonderment, to wander under the skies, to re-live in our vivid imaginations of the make believe and many more phrases that make the song of our lives. This is the premise on which we began to design the spaces of the school at Bhadran, where a child spends his formative years, where his first friends are made, where his first memories are etched.

▼项目模型，model

Bhadran校园被设计成多个独立又相连的空间，供孩子们躲藏、攀爬、翻滚和奔跑。通过这一系列的活动来满足孩子们的好奇心，激发他们天马行空的想象力。

This evolved as a quilt of many small events, of small places and spaces, to hide, to collide, climb, roll, run into and out of, to satiate curiosities of a forming mind, allowing its idyllic imagination and wonder.

▼校园内部景观，the interior landscape

跃动的红色拱门实际上是由一位小朋友的涂鸦具象而来，这同时也是本次项目在材料和形式上的实验与创新。这些跳跃着的红色拱门与涂鸦一样，是无拘无束、自由表达的象征。拱门的不对称性不仅打破了建造传统，还让孩子们在看到它的第一眼就产生好奇和疑问。设计团队所提倡的这种批判性思维和打破常规的概念，在建筑的整体平面图中也得以体现。

▼跃动的红色拱门，the dancing red arches

▼从拱门内向中庭看去，view to the atrium from the red arch

Conceptualized from a child’s early scribbles that turned into a series of dancing arches, the school is an experiment with materials and forms. A scribble is indicative of not being instructed, but having the freedom to express yourself in form of wavy, crooked lines, the only form a child knows. The dancing arches are a reminder of this freedom. The asymmetry of the arches reiterate that it is not always mandatory to be straight or conventional, but the irregularity at the first glance makes the forming mind curious and question. The habit of critical thinking, questioning and breaking away from convention is what the building echoes. The plan is also irregular to allow for a meander.

▼拱门细部，details of the arches

该项目位于Bhadran镇的一片烟草田边上，设计团队根据地形将学校有机地与环境融为一体。一系列穿插在林间的教室、可漫步的凉亭、墙上的缝隙、光的投影、壁龛、桥梁等元素，都为学校的综合体验增色不少。

Set on plot of land, surrounded by tobacco fields in the town of Bhadran, the design of the school grew organically as a series of classrooms that dance their way through the trees; encountering alcoves, cracks and crevices, projections, niches, inhabited bridges, boxes, khadkis & mezzanines – adding to a composition of experiences that would weave into the fabric of the school, much like the maze like town of Bhadran itself.

▼建筑与烟草田景致融为一体，set on plot of land, surrounded by tobacco fields

▼教学楼侧立面， side elevation of the teaching building

整个学校是按模块化打造的，每个模块都有两间教室和一条走廊，倾斜的拱顶蜿蜒相连。这种设计为再生材料的重复利用和自由组合创造了条件，在降低建造成本的同时，还使建筑更具可持续性。

▼剖面图，sections

The entire school is designed as a sequence of modules; each module would have a pair of classrooms and a corridor, with its tilted vaults sinuously strung. All the modules are designed to create repeated use of shuttering material made in waste steel and can be arranged in various patterns as deemed fit. Reuse of shuttering reduces the cost, while using less resources making the building sustainable.

▼建筑的独特拱顶，the unique vault of the building

▼二楼走廊一览，overview of the corridor on the second floor

▼走廊细部，details of the corridor

▼教室与走廊相连之处，where the classroom joins the corridor

屋顶为夹层结构，在上下砖层间加入了混凝土。教室的斜梁上有不规则的拱形结构，天窗则顺势开在拱顶之上。此外，覆盖在屋顶的厚厚一层碎砖块，在实现防水效果的同时，还创造了一个有趣的砖顶景观。在墙壁、地板和屋顶的材料选择上，设计团队都只采用了赤陶土砖这一种材料。这些砖块取材于附近的窑厂，是当地劳工们用精湛的技艺以及对家乡的热爱所铸造的。因而，这样的材料在让建筑看起来更加完美的同时，也体现了设计团队对选材的精准把控。

▼教室屋顶的夹层结构，roof forms are a sandwich structure with concrete in between layers of brick on the top and bottom

Roof forms are a sandwich structure with concrete in between layers of brick on the top and bottom. The classrooms have skewed beams with irregular jack arches, a unit of which protrudes to come a skylight. The roof is waterproofed with a thick layer of brick bat coba in the profile of the arches forming a playful broken brick landscape even on the roof. We have stayed true to one material:  terra cotta – bricks and only bricks in walls, floors and roofs. Sourced from a kiln close to site, it is the love of labor from around the town and the craft they bring with themselves that lends the building its immaculate semantic and precision.

▼凿开天窗的屋顶，a roof through which a skylight is cut

光就像是一种有形的建筑材料，它犹如针线一般，将那些发生在建筑中的瞬间和体验都轻轻串联。走廊中那些拱门的尖锐阴影、透过倾斜的拱顶洒下的橘红色柔光、以及透过裂缝和天窗射出的光束，都丰富了建筑的体验，激发了人们的兴致。总而言之，在学校这样的建筑内，只有嬉戏、探索和奔跑才是永恒。

Light for us is a tangible building material. We often tend to use it as a needle to embroider moments and experiences in our architecture. The sharp dark shadows of the irregular arches in the corridor, the soft glow of tangerine through the lopsided vaults, beams of light through the slits and skylights in the classroom add to this experience, generating intrigue. A building; a school; where the play of hide and seek is perpetual.

▼孩子们在教室内嬉戏，the children play in the classroom

▼通往屋顶的楼梯，stairs leads to the roof

▼教室门细部，details of the door

▼首层平面图，the ground floor plan

▼一层布局，overview

▼立面图，overview

▼剖面图，sections

Architects: Samira Rathod Design Associates

Location: Bhadran, Anand District, Gujarat

Client: Mr. Tanuj Patel, New English Medium School, Bhadran

Principal Architect: Samira Rathod

Project Team: Samira Rathod, Akshara Verma. Varun Goyal, Jay Shah

Structural Consultant: Rajiv Shah and Associates

Site Supervisor and Consultant: Jitendra Ray and Radhesh Ray

Project Year: 2014-2019

Area: 18000sq.ft.

Photographs: Niveditaa Gupta