NAVIGATING OPENNESS IN A DENSE URBAN CONTEXT

With a clear sense of direction through clean lines and inward-looking spaces, the design for HRM Global School ensures a perpetual connectivity between the indoors and outdoors.

A world-class, K-12 institution commissioned by the Gulshan Education Society, the HRM school located in New Delhi, sets a precedent for how internal green spaces in an educational setting can positively influence learning. With a total built-up area of about one lakh sq ft surrounded by dense, low-rise, mixed-use development, the site is in close proximity to the city's Outer Ring Road. Even while sharing an interface with a busy and often noisy road, the building's connectivity to the outdoors is highly minimised. Thus, the key strategy that has driven the school's design is the provision of inward-looking green spaces, offsetting the lack of views to the outside.