CONTRACTOR

Ballaiya

Features:

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Breezy FRP sheet roof anchored to existing store room by light trusses, the place becomes community’s own art exhibit with community art preserved in the fabric used to make the roofing sheet! A place to access drinking water, well shaded and clean which besides being a place to meet over the filling can, is place for community children to interact and climb into!

Design Brief:

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Existing construction store room instead of being dismantled was to be used with minimal expense to house gardening materials, some storage material and a dynamised drinking water unit with collection taps placed externally.

Design Intervention:

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We decided on minimum intervention to the existing roof which was leaking. Instead, we hosted an outdoor activity evening, where we invited the residents to paint on fabric and this fabric was used to create a lightweight roof that shaded the existing room and extended beyond it to create semi covered areas on both longer sides. 

Infrastructure was added on the inside and a neat water collection area was created on the outside made joyful by using colour cement oxide and donated tiles. The other wall of the unit had blackboard paint, for the children to write on. A drab opening was made into a corbelled window to finish the informal look without needing to add a beam.

Our take away:

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We at PATH look upon no work as big or small and give ourselves completely to all works entrusted to us. Bringing community participation in making of this facility was a process of learning and fulfilment at the same time!