We won a competition to design a new Arts and Media Centre at The Doon School, India’s premier all boys’ boarding school. Integral to our concept is the journey of an artist, interpreted as a central spine that runs east- west along the entire length of the site; dissolving into the ample lung space of a landscaped garden. The two buildings of the art school – one for art instruction primarily housing painting, ceramic, sculpture, and textile studios, and the other, with a lecture hall.
The building is contextual in terms of its orientation and materiality as it interfaces the iconic 100-year-old English Renaissance inspired main school building and the rest of the brick architecture of the campus. The materials – Exposed brick tiles juxtaposed with olive coloured corrugated metal sheets and glass is set against an omnipresent spi
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