Maya Somaiya Library: A Place to Study and Play

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Sameep Padora & Associates architects

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Computer filePublication details: urbanNext, February 04, 2019.Description: 476 wordsISSN:

2575-5374

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Summary: 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.

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Children (42) ,
Vault (4) ,
Tradition (56) ,
Technology (282) ,
Structure (84) ,
Rooftop (42) ,
Project (1170) ,
Playground (30) ,
Library (22) ,
Landscape (273)

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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.

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