VAGHBHATANANDA COLLEGE

Overview

A vision was created when ULCC, an organisation that has influenced lives all across the Malabar coast decided to create an Educational institution,following the values of humanity and social causes propagated by its founder, Vaghbhatananda. Gifted with luscious landscape, and aimed to embrace what nature has to offer, a masterpiece followed.

Location

KERALA, INDIA

Year

2022

Client

Vaghbhatananda Trust

TYPOLOGY

Institution

AREA SQM

37,200

Status

Design Completed

The design masterfully crafts spaces to create an order and hierarchy in terms of mass and placements. While the large volumes, vertically placed, provide space to accommodate the multitude of programs offered by the college, the voids are planted ideally to balance the human body’s need to break out from the walls look up at the sky above, as a sort of breathing space. The built mass creates frames and grids, that add a contemporary touch to the architectural language while maintaining the vernacular aspects through locally sourced materials. The frames, in a way, also curate the panoramic view the site has to offer through freedom in sizes of openings and dynamic shadows that create patterns throughout the day.