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Teacher's Residences at The Doon School by Anagram Architects

Architecture

2016

Photographer : Suryan and Dang

The Doon School is an 82 year old private boarding school situated in Dehradun (Uttarakhand) in the foothills of the Himalayas. Located on a lush 70 acre campus, originally a botanical garden, the school is home to approximately 500 students (mostly boys) and about 50 teaching staff. Key to the ethos of the school is the special bond between the teachers and their wards, which verges on the filial. Almost all the teachers live on the campus and, in and out of the classroom, are actively involved in the academic, pastoral and co-curricular guidance offered to each student. 

Over the years, the school has undertaken the architectural and infrastructural development of its campus in keeping with its evolving pedagogy and requirements. Multiple academic, extracurricular, dormitory and residential structures, built in distinct vocabularies, ranging from the colonial to the modern and the postmodern, dot the campus. Two large playfields offer wide vistas of the architecture set in a verdant landscape. With a view to enhancing the family accommodations for faculty, a total of 18 residences of about 223 sqm each were designed on two separate sites.

Dehradun has a composite sub-tropical climate with a particularly wet monsoon. While the trees cover on campus helps alleviate the summer heat, solar thermal gain through the roof is a concern. Sitting out in the bright winter sun, on the other hand, mitigates the crisp chill in the air, the monsoon rains tend to be torrential and driven by a strong southeasterly wind. 

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Architects : Anagram Architects
Area : 45,000 sq. ft.
Year : 2016
Website : https://www.instagram.com/anagramarchitects/

Exterior view of Teacher's Residences at The Doon School by Anagram Architects


Exterior view of Teacher's Residences at The Doon School by Anagram Architects


Exterior view of Teacher's Residences at The Doon School by Anagram Architects


Exterior view of Teacher's Residences at The Doon School by Anagram Architects


Exterior view of Teacher's Residences at The Doon School by Anagram Architects

Organised as staggered rows, running East-Southeast to West-Northwest, the units are arranged to maintain existing sightlines of the campus with four sharing a staircase so as to conserve land. The teachers often open their homes to their students and so the shift in their residential typology, from stand alone villas with private gardens, to walk-up apartments and shared greens, helps make them more accessible territorially. 

Further, the simple formal articulation and crisp elemental expression is intended to make the residences less imposing. The gabled volumes of the units are staggered to breakup the contiguity of the facades and to accommodate existing trees close to the footprint. A shared service attic under the pitched roofs is provided to reduce heat gain to the upper floor residences and the water tanks are further raised as turrets to create hydraulic head. The corners are pulled out into shaded balconies to act as sit-outs to the bedrooms and similarly the living room extends onto a recessed verandah sit-out. 


Exterior view of Teacher's Residences at The Doon School by Anagram Architects


Exterior view of Teacher's Residences at The Doon School by Anagram Architects


Exterior view of Teacher's Residences at The Doon School by Anagram Architects


Exterior view of Teacher's Residences at The Doon School by Anagram Architects


Living room of Teacher's Residences at The Doon School by Anagram Architects


Porch of Teacher's Residences at The Doon School by Anagram Architects


Porch of Teacher's Residences at The Doon School by Anagram Architects


Tennis Court in front of Teacher's Residences at The Doon School by Anagram Architects


Dusk light shot of extierior view pf Teacher's Residences at The Doon School by Anagram Architects

Brick masonry is extensively used in the existing architecture of the campus and the design refers to this through the use of red terracotta tiles on the facades and lighter yellow terracotta in the recesses. The “portal” frames expressing the sit-outs and fenestrations are clad in light sandstone. 

The Teachers’ Housing project at the Doon School is an attempt to encourage a more extroverted, convivial residential lifestyle for the faculty while maintaining existing sightlines and conserving land and vegetation. It conforms to the existing material palette of the campus while accentuating elemental articulations. It attempts to reduce the scale of the development by staggering volumes and create spacious and well lit homes that are more connected to campus life.


Dusk light shot of extierior view pf Teacher's Residences at The Doon School by Anagram Architects


Night shot of exterior view of Teacher's Residences at The Doon School by Anagram Architects


Front elevation of Teacher's Residences at The Doon School by Anagram Architects


Rear Elevation of Teacher's Residences at The Doon School by Anagram Architects


Block plan of Teacher's Residences at The Doon School by Anagram Architects


Section of Teacher's Residences at The Doon School by Anagram Architects


Site plan 1 of Teacher's Residences at The Doon School by Anagram Architects


Site plan 2 of Teacher's Residences at The Doon School by Anagram Architects



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2016
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