Built to provide day-care and an educational facility for children of construction workers, this project uses traditional construction technology to form a spacious and well-lit environment.
This building, designed for an NGO, houses a creche for the children of working women in the slum re-settlement colony of Seemapuri in East Delhi.
© Kamath Design Studio
The structure is an exploration of the properties of brick as a material and uses no cement or concrete. The load bearing walls, corbelled and arched openings, and a grid of domes and reinforced brick slabs, all in lime mortar, articulate the building while keeping it low-cost.
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Yellow Train School. Biome Environmental Solutions, 2013.