Girls Home | Design Cooperative [DCOOP]

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Girls Home | Design Cooperative [DCOOP]

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  • Project Name: Girls Home
  • Practice: Design Cooperative [DCOOP]
  • Products: Jaquar , Asian Paints , Dorset , Polycab , Restile , Wipro , BO Concept , Legrand , Lafit , Havells
  • Completion year: 2017
  • Gross Built up Area: 615 sqm per unit
  • Project Location: Maharashtra
  • Country: India
  • Lead Architects/Designer: Quaid Doongerwala + Shilpa Ranade
  • Design Team: Manisha Hegde, Suresh Sawant, Sanya Gupta, Vatsal Bharmani and Tasneem Vohra
  • Structural Consultants: Asim Shah
  • Photo Credits: Rajesh Vora
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Excerpt: The Girls’ home is part of a residential school campus for girls from distressed backgrounds. The building is designed in a L-shaped plan with the girls’ rooms in one wing and the caretaker’s rooms in the other wing connected by the pivot of the common living-dining-kitchen space. The highlight of this project is the veranda connecting the girls’ rooms which becomes the semi-open social space and connects back into the community courtyard. It also helps to suitably ventilate the rooms.

Project Description

[Text as submitted by Architect] The Girls’ home is part of a residential school campus for girls from distressed backgrounds. Each structure is home to two families – one on each floor of the building. The family consists of a house mother, her two assistants and twelve girls.

Girls Home | Design Cooperative [DCOOP]
© Design Cooperative [DCOOP]
Girls Home | Design Cooperative [DCOOP]
© Design Cooperative [DCOOP]
Girls Home | Design Cooperative [DCOOP]
© Rajesh Vora
The building is designed in a L-shaped plan with the girls’ rooms in one wing and the caretaker’s rooms in the other wing connected by the pivot of the common living-dining-kitchen space.

Girls Home | Design Cooperative [DCOOP]
© Rajesh Vora
Girls Home | Design Cooperative [DCOOP]
© Rajesh Vora
The highlight of this project is the veranda connecting the girls’ rooms which becomes the semi-open social space and connects back into the community courtyard. It also helps to suitably ventilate the rooms. Seats are built into the veranda wall for the girls to sit in.

Girls Home | Design Cooperative [DCOOP]
© Rajesh Vora
Girls Home | Design Cooperative [DCOOP]
© Rajesh Vora

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