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    The Druk White Lotus School is located in Shey, Ladakh, India. The school was started in 2001 to help maintain the rich cultural traditions of Ladakh while preparing students for the 21st century. It initially had only 20 students but has since expanded. The master plan orients buildings along an axis to take advantage of solar heating. Key design strategies include passive solar heating, use of local materials like stone and timber, superinsulation, water conservation, and an on-site photovoltaic system.

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    The Druk White Lotus School is located in Shey, Ladakh, India. The school was started in 2001 to help maintain the rich cultural traditions of Ladakh while preparing students for the 21st century. It initially had only 20 students but has since expanded. The master plan orients buildings along an axis to take advantage of solar heating. Key design strategies include passive solar heating, use of local materials like stone and timber, superinsulation, water conservation, and an on-site photovoltaic system.

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    DRUK WHITE LOTUS SCHOOL,LADAKH

    KESHIKA.KS
    B.ARCH 5th Year “A”sec
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    INTRODUCTION
    Ladakh, the Persian transliteration of the Tibetan • Location: Shey, Ladakh, India
    societies, is a district which is located in the state of • Latitude/Longitude: 34º N, 77º
    Jammu & Kashmir which presently extends from Kunlun 40’ E, alt. 3,700m
    mountain range to the main great Himalayas to the • Building type: School
    south includes the upper Indus River Valley. • Completion: First phase in 2001,
    phase 2 in 2004, all phases by
    The school was started at the request of the people of 2009
    Ladakh who wanted a school that would help maintain • Client: Drukpa Trust
    their rich cultural traditions, based on Tibetan • Design team: Arup Associates
    Buddhism, while equipping their children for a life in the and Arup The school is located in
    21st century the village of Shey in
    Ladakh, in far north India.

    Druk White Lotus School is locally known as Druk Padma


    Karpo School where Padma stands for Lotus and Karpo
    means white in their Bodhi language.

    The school initially started with only 20 students focusing


    to maintain their rich cultural tradition based on Tibetan
    Buddhism.
    BUILDING DATA
    The project has been conceived as a contemporary model for a
    appropriate and sustaible development in harmony with local
    culture.The Master Plan takes advantage of site with a complex of
    buildings based around courtyards that are planned primarily on
    one level,oriented along a North-South axis for Residential and
    the other buildings facing the South-East axis
    Site Area-130,000 sq.m(13 Hectars)
    Ground Floor Area-1200 sq.m
    Total Covered Area-1240 sq.m
    Nursery and Infant School-800 sq.m
    Residence-440 sq.m
    CONCEPT & EVOLUTION OF PLANNING

    PLAN OF A MANDALA
    The basic form of Mandala,the Their scared spaces are woven into
    Buddhist spritual symbol,is a square Nine-sqaured grids.Where education
    grid representing the sacred place and spirituality comes together to
    MASTER PLAN secured by the protecting walls create a tranquile atmosphere
    INFANT AND NURSERY BLOCK
    The Nursery and Infant school consists of two parallel buildings
    that frame an open courtyard.Each of these buildings is enclosed
    on three side by a stone wall which protects it from the Northerly
    winds during the long cold winters and provides thermal mass.In
    contrast,the south-east facades are extensively glazed to provide
    direct solar energy for heating and natural light.

    SECTION A-A SHOWING THE NURSERY AND COURTYARD


    KEY DESIGN STRATERGIES
    A.PASSIVE SOLAR HEATING
    The reason to design passive solar buildings is to acquire the benefit of local climate for emerging a proper sustainable
    planning. In passive solar building designs, all the structural members of the building especially walls, floor and windows
    are prepared to store, collect and distribute solar energy in the form of heat in the winters and reject solar heat in
    summers. In Druk White Lotus School, all the classroom buildings are oriented 30 degree east of true south to gather early
    morning warm rays of sun. This orientation of all the academic block results in ample amount of sunlight to penetrate
    inside throughout the day and creates a comfortable atmosphere inside the classrooms.
    B.STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS
    Ladakh lacks the usage of natural resources for
    complex construction so glass,structual timber,cement
    and steel have been bought from outside the local
    community and delivered from other parts of Kashmir.

    All the structure in the campus of the school are one


    storey structure which are using timber frames to
    resist seismic loads and ensure life safety in the event
    of an earthquake.

    The timber frame are independent of the walls and


    steel connections and cross bracing provides stability
    at the time of earthquake.

    The classrooms have well shaded openable windows


    that allow natural cross ventilation that provides a
    cool glare free,high quality teaching environment.
    Usage of local stone and timber building with fully glazed south
    facing facade has been incorporated in the nursery and infant
    school for the usage of passive solar heating
    C.SUPERINSULTATION

    The roofs are constructed of local popular


    rafters, willow sheathing topped with mud and
    rock wool and felt insulation. The weather skin
    is sand and aluminum sheets.

    The splayed roof acts as an indirect daylight


    source in the classroom.Note lack of electric
    lighting fixtures.

    The roof of the school that is an essential part


    of the façade, is made completely from locally
    available poplar and willow, and is also a local
    technique, is very effective against the harsh
    exterior conditions and cold winds

    The roofs are designed to bring in additional


    daylight through the clearstorey
    windows.Small facing windows are set in the
    North-Facing.
    D.WATERUSE
    The campus of Druk White Lotus School in
    located in the desert of ladakh region. The whole
    campus and the habitation of the nearby areas
    are dependent on glaciers, surface water sources
    and even on springs for their survival as water is
    required for living.

    The ground water is also extracted from deep


    wells and are pumped to 16,000 gallon tank
    which is further located on a higher ground than
    the buildings it serves.
    The composting latrines are
    As far as the planning of campus is concern, all clad with metal that is painted
    the toilets adjacent to the buildings are working black to absorb heat and
    on the principles of Waterless Ventilated causes fumes.The roof is made
    Improved Pit (VIP) toilets. from a combination of mud
    and local wood.Rock wool and
    These toilets were designed to use solar assisted felt are used to insulate.On top
    stack ventilators which helps to create odourless of this they have added
    compost and becomes an excellent fertilizers and Corrugated Aluminium sheets
    used for many other agricultural activities. to cover the felt.
    E.ELECTRICAL POWER

    The use of photovoltaic panels and inverters to


    generate electricity from sunlight fulfils the need of
    campus in abundance. Photovoltaic (PV) covers the
    conversion of light into electricity using semiconducting
    materials that exhibit the photovoltaic effect a
    phenomenon studied in physics,photochemistry and
    electrochemistry.

    A typical photovoltaic system employs solar panels,


    each comprising a number of solar cells, which
    generate electrical power. The first step is the
    photoelectric effect followed by an electrochemical
    process where crystallized atoms, ionized in a series, In October 2008, the first phase of the Druk White Lotus
    generate an electric current. School 42 kWp photo-voltaic system was completed,
    providing reliable power to the whole site. It uses an initial
    PV Installations may be ground-mounted,rootop installation of 9 kWp of PV panels, which also act as
    mounted or wall mounted. Around half of the initial external shading devices for three of the school buildings.
    investment in solar energy was co-financed by carbon Previously, electricity was only available intermittently
    offset funds. from the local grid or by operating the school’s diesel
    generator.
    MATERIALS AND METHODS
    The choice of materials was influenced by many considerations,
    including sustainability, durability and cost. Extensive use is made
    of local granite, mud, and local timbers such as poplar and willow.

    Traditionally, the sizes of internal spaces in Ladakh were


    constrained by the maximum available cross-sections of poplar
    beams, and so classrooms were typically small and had limited
    window area in order to conserve heat.

    In contrast, Druk White Lotus School uses large timber sections


    from neighbouring Kashmir to provide wide spans which allow
    spacious teaching areas that are unique in Ladakh and use
    extensive glazed areas to make use of solar energy.

    Local mud is used to make bricks, and roofing uses the traditional
    design of layers of local poplar and willow, mud and local grasses.
    Extensive use is made of local granite, worked into the buildings by
    craftsmen from the region.

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