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Anitha's Kids Play Park
Sivakasi, India
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Anitha's Kids Play Park
Sivakasi, India
Project Featured on Jul 03, 2015
Firm
Type
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2015
SIZE
10,000 sqft - 25,000 sqft
BUDGET
$1M - 5M
Prologue:
“Anitha’s Kids play park” is a vision proposed to increase the civic and community value of “Anitha Higher Secondary School” . “Anitha’s Kids play park” is a name given to the shaded play area of the “Anitha Higher Secondary School”. It’s a public space which acts as a kids recreational activity zone.
Anitha Higher Secondary School is located in the outskirts of Sivakasi Municipality. Entertainment and civic spaces like Play lots, recreational parks, museums, water pools etc are not available in the vicinity. Kids in these rural area are not exposed to civic spaces like Amusement parks. So we decided to propose a shaded play park which will be used by the kids of Anitha Higher Secondar School during working days and will be opened to public on holidays so that the kids in the village and students of other schools can also access the play park.
This initiative is to bring in the kids of the village to the school to play and to encourage the commune spirit between the kids in the Neighborhood. This process in turn strengthens the Educational spirit of the institute and helps the growth of the school.
“Anitha’s Kids play park” associates the children of the rural surroundings of Vembakottai village, Sithurajapuram village and Kongalapuram village during holidays. So this leads the rural kids who are not exposed to even basic education to access civic and commune space as “Play Park”.
So by this way “Anitha’s Kids play park” becomes a civic amenity for the surrounding rural children.
Listed following are the primary features of the project,
1.Window as an interface
2. Slide as an Exit to outdoors
3. Shaded play area
4. Water-body
5. Gutter
6. Play equipment
7. Web- wall
8. Arrival/ Waiting area
9. Rain water reuse
1. Window as an interface:
Windows are designed to be as an interface between Indoors and Outdoors. Here windows are used as an exit to move away to outdoors being inside the classrooms. The window sills are 1 feet and is provided with a 3 feet wide platform so that the kids can be seated on it, use indoor games on it and study on it. This platform acts as an multi use interface which blurs the feel of enclosure so that the boundary between enclosure and exposure is diminished in the minds of the children.
2. Slide as an exit to outdoors:
Kids inside the kindergarten exit to the outdoor play area through the slides provided to each window’s sill level. This is an innovative method of transit in-turn encouraging the playfulness of the kids. The collapsible windows are opened during the leisure hours so that the kids slide to outside from being inside the classrooms. During education hours the collapsible windows remain closed. The slides are made by ferro- cement – concrete with natural color oxide finish so that it is easily used during hot summers also. The multi – colored slides induces the kids to pick their favorite color and slide.
3. Shaded play area:
A shaded play area is created with a mass area of 10000 Sq. Ft. The play area is divided into two parts. One is the 15 feet high roof arena which is of 2800 Sq. Ft in which the kindergarten kids can play and the other is the 35 feet high roof arena which is of 7200 Sq. Ft in which the elementary and higher secondary grade kids can also play. The V – Shaped cylindrical columns are the structural members used to span the huge open area. Bare Galvalume sheet is used to shelter the whole structural system. Because of the high ceiling the kids really enjoy the good aeration and good micro – climate even during hot summers.
4. Water-body:
The water-body is just one feet deep so that its safe for the kids to use. The water-body has inlet and outlet pipes. The overflow provision is provided so that the minimum depth of the water is maintained as 8 inches.
5. The cantilevered Gutter:
The gutter provided above the water-body is a 8 feet cantilevered ferro – concrete drain system. This gutter fills the water-body during rainfall. Having the gutter pouring rainwater with the orange wall as its backdrop is a dramatic view during rainy days.
6. Arrival/ Waiting Area:
The arrival/ waiting area is for parents to wait and leave their kids in morning and take home their kids in evening. This is like a gallery space also used for seating for visitors and guests when cultural activities are organized like children’s day, independence day and republic day celebrations inside the shaded play area. It is finished with exposed cement concrete.
7. Web- wall:
The Web- wall is designed with shifting angles colliding into each other. Such a web- system is generated to have an entrance feel of an amusement park. And moreover these random lines form amazing light and shade during morning and evening, This skin wall is made by exposed ferro – cement concrete systems. The structural system is like a spider web system which is self-supportive like a monolithic web. Moreover, the wider vertical members act like additional supports for the entire web.
8. Rainwater reuse:
Rainwater is collected by the ferro – concrete gutter in the roof. Storm waters are collected by two gutters in the floor. Since it is a huge mass of open area of 10000 Sq. Ft, surplus amount of rain water is collected and stored in rain water tank for future reuse.
9. Play Equipment:
The play equipment like sea saw, slides, trampoline are installed to have a feel of an amusement park. The higher secondary school kids also use these play equipment during break hours. These equipment are open to use by the kids in the surrounding villages on holidays. All the equipment are made of soft plastic which are safe and easily used by the kids.
Epilogue:
This working model of “Education through inviting children for open play” helps this educational institute in Sivakasi to improve the educational reach in surrounding inaccessible villages also. It’s a noble initiative for the benefit of the rural children.
“Anitha’s Kids play park” is a vision proposed to increase the civic and community value of “Anitha Higher Secondary School” . “Anitha’s Kids play park” is a name given to the shaded play area of the “Anitha Higher Secondary School”. It’s a public space which acts as a kids recreational activity zone.
Anitha Higher Secondary School is located in the outskirts of Sivakasi Municipality. Entertainment and civic spaces like Play lots, recreational parks, museums, water pools etc are not available in the vicinity. Kids in these rural area are not exposed to civic spaces like Amusement parks. So we decided to propose a shaded play park which will be used by the kids of Anitha Higher Secondar School during working days and will be opened to public on holidays so that the kids in the village and students of other schools can also access the play park.
This initiative is to bring in the kids of the village to the school to play and to encourage the commune spirit between the kids in the Neighborhood. This process in turn strengthens the Educational spirit of the institute and helps the growth of the school.
“Anitha’s Kids play park” associates the children of the rural surroundings of Vembakottai village, Sithurajapuram village and Kongalapuram village during holidays. So this leads the rural kids who are not exposed to even basic education to access civic and commune space as “Play Park”.
So by this way “Anitha’s Kids play park” becomes a civic amenity for the surrounding rural children.
Listed following are the primary features of the project,
1.Window as an interface
2. Slide as an Exit to outdoors
3. Shaded play area
4. Water-body
5. Gutter
6. Play equipment
7. Web- wall
8. Arrival/ Waiting area
9. Rain water reuse
1. Window as an interface:
Windows are designed to be as an interface between Indoors and Outdoors. Here windows are used as an exit to move away to outdoors being inside the classrooms. The window sills are 1 feet and is provided with a 3 feet wide platform so that the kids can be seated on it, use indoor games on it and study on it. This platform acts as an multi use interface which blurs the feel of enclosure so that the boundary between enclosure and exposure is diminished in the minds of the children.
2. Slide as an exit to outdoors:
Kids inside the kindergarten exit to the outdoor play area through the slides provided to each window’s sill level. This is an innovative method of transit in-turn encouraging the playfulness of the kids. The collapsible windows are opened during the leisure hours so that the kids slide to outside from being inside the classrooms. During education hours the collapsible windows remain closed. The slides are made by ferro- cement – concrete with natural color oxide finish so that it is easily used during hot summers also. The multi – colored slides induces the kids to pick their favorite color and slide.
3. Shaded play area:
A shaded play area is created with a mass area of 10000 Sq. Ft. The play area is divided into two parts. One is the 15 feet high roof arena which is of 2800 Sq. Ft in which the kindergarten kids can play and the other is the 35 feet high roof arena which is of 7200 Sq. Ft in which the elementary and higher secondary grade kids can also play. The V – Shaped cylindrical columns are the structural members used to span the huge open area. Bare Galvalume sheet is used to shelter the whole structural system. Because of the high ceiling the kids really enjoy the good aeration and good micro – climate even during hot summers.
4. Water-body:
The water-body is just one feet deep so that its safe for the kids to use. The water-body has inlet and outlet pipes. The overflow provision is provided so that the minimum depth of the water is maintained as 8 inches.
5. The cantilevered Gutter:
The gutter provided above the water-body is a 8 feet cantilevered ferro – concrete drain system. This gutter fills the water-body during rainfall. Having the gutter pouring rainwater with the orange wall as its backdrop is a dramatic view during rainy days.
6. Arrival/ Waiting Area:
The arrival/ waiting area is for parents to wait and leave their kids in morning and take home their kids in evening. This is like a gallery space also used for seating for visitors and guests when cultural activities are organized like children’s day, independence day and republic day celebrations inside the shaded play area. It is finished with exposed cement concrete.
7. Web- wall:
The Web- wall is designed with shifting angles colliding into each other. Such a web- system is generated to have an entrance feel of an amusement park. And moreover these random lines form amazing light and shade during morning and evening, This skin wall is made by exposed ferro – cement concrete systems. The structural system is like a spider web system which is self-supportive like a monolithic web. Moreover, the wider vertical members act like additional supports for the entire web.
8. Rainwater reuse:
Rainwater is collected by the ferro – concrete gutter in the roof. Storm waters are collected by two gutters in the floor. Since it is a huge mass of open area of 10000 Sq. Ft, surplus amount of rain water is collected and stored in rain water tank for future reuse.
9. Play Equipment:
The play equipment like sea saw, slides, trampoline are installed to have a feel of an amusement park. The higher secondary school kids also use these play equipment during break hours. These equipment are open to use by the kids in the surrounding villages on holidays. All the equipment are made of soft plastic which are safe and easily used by the kids.
Epilogue:
This working model of “Education through inviting children for open play” helps this educational institute in Sivakasi to improve the educational reach in surrounding inaccessible villages also. It’s a noble initiative for the benefit of the rural children.
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