Maya Somaiya Library: A Place to Study and Play
Maya Somaiya Library: A Place to Study and Play
- urbanNext, February 04, 2019.
- 476 words.
Middle Density, Project, sP+a, Technology and fabrication, Urban Paradigms
Children, Construction, Context, Geodesic Structure, India, Landscape, Library, Playground, Project, Rooftop, Structure, Technology, Tradition, Vault, Working Space
Photography: Edmund Sumner
The site chosen for this small addition of a children’s library to a school in rural Maharashtra was a sliver between existing buildings and the school boundary, a site that almost implied a linear building footprint to adjust the program to the chosen site.
Alluding to the impetus that children have towards landscape over a building, we imagined the library building to be a formal extension of the ground plane: a place inside for study and a place above for play.
2575-5374
Architecture Project Library Maharashtra, India India
Middle Density, Project, sP+a, Technology and fabrication, Urban Paradigms
Children, Construction, Context, Geodesic Structure, India, Landscape, Library, Playground, Project, Rooftop, Structure, Technology, Tradition, Vault, Working Space
Photography: Edmund Sumner
The site chosen for this small addition of a children’s library to a school in rural Maharashtra was a sliver between existing buildings and the school boundary, a site that almost implied a linear building footprint to adjust the program to the chosen site.
Alluding to the impetus that children have towards landscape over a building, we imagined the library building to be a formal extension of the ground plane: a place inside for study and a place above for play.
2575-5374
Architecture Project Library Maharashtra, India India