Bavilion

PrizeWinner in Architectural Design / Small Architecture
Firm LocationPanchkula, India
CompanyStudio Ardete
Lead ArchitectBadrinath Kaleru

Doaba Public School, Parowal, is located in a remote village in Punjab, India. The school has over 2500 students from over 100 villages. School busses are the primary mode of transport for all of them as they are scattered away from each other, the farthest being 50km away. A 20-year-old school bus, which ended its permitted lifetime as a vehicle, had to undergo mandatory disposal. The bus was special to the school as it belonged to the first fleet of buses, which now has over 50 buses. The brief was to explore a possibility to reuse it in a way that it could once again be made useful to the school.