Abstract:
This dissertation questions the premises of Architecture to play its key role in generating effective
learning environment. It is not about good or bad, right or wrong; it is about directing the attention
towards the basic requirements of learning centers.
Architecture has the capability to generate an effective environment for students by providing
interesting/interactive spaces that can be explored, well organized, spatially configured,
programmatically systematized & experiential. It is one of the six aspects (curriculum, facilities,
management, tutors, parent contribution and built environment) that make a good school.
School is a place to learn. A place; where education is not restricted to the books in four walls of class
room but spread across to the whole school. Either it's a corridor or a bench for sitting or the ground for
playing; the learning activity continues and makes the whole school a laboratory for experiment.
Entrance, circulation, geometry, Form, Ergonomics, spatial character, programmatic layouts and natural
features combines to form a tool kit for experimentation to perform.
Thus, the question ultimately arises through this introspection is to what extent architecture can play its
part to serve the process of learning? Can it answer the challenges faced by govt. school design by its
innovative approach? And lastly; is architecture successful in serving for the desired function?
