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STUDENT HOUSING AT SCHOOL OF PLANNING & ARCHITECTURE, VIJAYAWADA,
ANDHRA PRADESH
Visual connectivity between the inside and outside
Courtyards form transition spaces within the stilts
The intent was to create social spaces that are embedded within its cultural context along with an environmentally sensitive
response to create a built environment which enables learning and living as a community.
Social sustainability: Our concept was to focus on the diversity of individuals and the vastness of a community creating
opportunities of variation and thereby learning. The approach was to avoid the hermetic dormitory organizational structure, which
fosters a regimented form of social control that restricts learning, living and exchange. The attempt is to create organizational
variation, change and flexibility by integrating program with non-programmatic spaces fostering both the collective and the
individual. Spaces such as streets, courtyards, bridges, verandas and terraces with student living are integrated, creating a
variety of chance interaction between the diverse student community.
