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When it comes to school architecture services, it is a very focused and dedicated wing of science that requires the architects to have in depth understanding of various aspects associated for development of not only just the infrastructure but the complete school offering to do justice to the requirements of clients. Any client intending to set up their new school in India goes to an architect to seek value addition. The importance for school architecture has become important in present scenario as design is not just restricted to school buildings but the complete facility plan to comply with the demand of the market segment thereby creating the right pull factor and setting up an effective market entry strategy for the promoters.

Our school architecture team have hands on experience in designing K-12 schools across India for various boards. What differentiates our architecture team is the approach towards designing and planning of the school apart from the in depth known how of curriculum affiliation requisites. At ASMG, after being involved in the design development of over 100 schools over the years know the required approach towards designing a new school project in India. The most important aspect of design is to understand the basis intent of venture that gets answered through the following questions

• Location – Where are we commissioning the project
• Target Segment – For whom are we building the school
• Fee structure vs Facility Offering
• How Much should we construct

We guide our clients to understand the target segment, the competition, the existing benchmark before finalizing on the project size for them to understand the market dynamics and need of the parents. Architecture for a new school should always be developed to have attributes that no one else in the market can offer to the parents and create its own individuality. Construction size, building elevation type, façade elements, landscaping features, outdoor sports facilities, circulation spaces in campus as well as building, set backs, co-curricular and learning zones, indoor sports zone, section capacity assumptions and finally the built up area of the project in phase 1 are all based upon what the parents of a given location are ready to accept and what price. The said input is investigated and accordingly we guide our clients on finalizing the budget for the school. Our school design intent is that clients should develop only that much construction size which shall capture the beauty of the building and campus while complying to all CBSE/ICSE/IGCSE or IB board affiliation requisites in Phase 1 itself and cater to 3-5 years of operation for school. Any consideration to develop capacity beyond this shall be over spending on the construction aspect leading to budgetary constraints for clients for school operation purpose which is equally important. The budget as approved and finalized further forms the basis for architects to derive master plan, phase wise construction plan for building blocks, building form, façade and elevation elements, facility planning within building along with classroom sizes, lab sizes and circulation spaces.

Every segment for whom the school design is conceived is focused to have a specific benchmark and hygiene factors that are required to be gauged, understood and accordingly integrated in the school design aspects. Planning is hence a very important aspect for school designs and thereby needs the school architects to have in depth knowledge of all aspects to play around accordingly guiding clients in the right direction. Our sense of beauty in a school design lies in the ambience, environment, facility, comfort and ease of movement as developed in a school. School projects distinctively should have designs that should complement its offering as various learning zones are required to be designed for the students to be motivated to learn from what they observe on a daily basis. The school design should carry forward the intent of the management’s vision and mission to be specific from how they would want any and every feature of the campus to impart specific message to the occupants. Every area within a campus needs to have a defined ambience. Pre Primary Zone, Middle School zone, Senior School, co-curricular zone, Sports Zone, Admin Area all have a dedicated utility and different age group subscribers that have to be all converged and synced naturally without disrupting the sanctity of building elevation design.

Our team delivers turnkey school architecture and design services covering all aspects and being a one stop solution for our clients to successfully commission their new school project with the intent of setting up new benchmarks for the area.