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Dr. Sudeshna Chatterjee, a global thought leader in children’s enviornments…
Cornell University, Department of City & Regional Planning
The rainwater collection and storage system at Anokhi campus is designed to collect rainwater from rooftops and paved surfaces to be stored in various collection ponds added on site. The total water collected annually is more than enough to meet the demands, making the campus water self sufficient.
The school is on a 13 acre site. The six building blocks are located to the eastern end of the site. A large playground is in the middle. The western end has the wild zone of the site with a large water recharge pond.
The buildings are designed to minimize construction and maintenance cost, using locally available stone, and no wood.
The school classrooms work without artificial lighting. Careful orientation and sizing of openings provides natural light, and climatic comfort.
KCA Partner, Ravi Kaimal was intimately involved with every stage of development of the school from original concept to site selection and eventually as the managing trustee of the school from 1995-2010. He continues to be on the board of the Fabindia School.
Rainwater collection system and solar hot water heaters installed on the roof of CHIRAG Headquarters makes the campus water and hot water self sufficient. The building is designed to function well and comfortably even without electricity with ample natural light in all rooms.
CHIRAG School is the first environmental green school in the central Himalayas.
This village school is constructed out of local stones quarried at site, bricks, and concrete structural members.
Local practices to conserve and harvest rainwater, maximizing daylight and protecting from the cold weather were adopted through passive design controls.
The school is water self sufficient. To promote outdoor learning, it has windows that step out into outdoor learning spaces in protected sunlit pockets in the south.
The inside spaces are filled with daylight from roof skylights and windows.