The Summit, is an institutional campus in Chikmagalur, Karnataka. The campus has been planned in a site of 4 acres. The first phase that was built was the elementary block with a builtup area of 19,000 sqft accommodating grades 1 to 5. The second phase that was built, was the Kindergarten Block with a builtup area of 14,200 sqft. The Senior School with a built up area of 42,355 sqft is presently under construction. The buildings are designed as low lying structures so as to blend with the existing landscape, which mostly consist of rolling hills.
The first phase of construction is the elementary block which will accommodate 360 students with a built up area of 1750 Sqm. It has been built for grades 1 to 5 and has a G+1 low structure to keep in mind scale & safety of the young students and secondly to minimize the built intervention in the existing topography.
The education process as visualized by us is in a state of flux and movement. The building is conceived to be dynamic in form and to induce a sense of movement. The form of the building is representational of a similar idea where the corridor which is the longest single architectural element of the building has a sloped roof and hugs the building on 3 sides. The sense of movement is brought about by the sloping corridor roof, the orientation of the perforations in the corridor wall, the railing design, the inclined columns, the inclined staircase.
