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Matthew spacie3/18/2023 ![]() Perhaps it is fitting that a building designed for the use of children eschews the trappings of routine regulations that come to govern the adult world. Therefore each experience of reaching the building on any of these paths is rendered unique. The architects re-interpret the quotidian but oft-mundane circulatory functions of a building. All the approach roads and means of access, whether over the topography or on to the decks, are in fact designed as part of an obstacle course. The project values the outside, by means of views and the active double-storeyed voids, much more than any internal functions. Additionally a ropes bridge connects the two upper decks. Double-height spaces below the roof are largely used for working a Jacob’s ladder and other activities. Here team-building activities, discussions, games and workshops are conducted and cheered at. These masses integrally support the upper decks. ![]() Two aligned lower storey masses separated by a wooden deck hold the necessary functions of the toilet block and a storage shed for watersports equipment. Rather than blend in, the project looks to collage itself into its milieu. Conceptually too, the programmatic masses were composed to formally mimic the way the table top hills of the surrounding Ghats situated themselves within the dense foliage of the lower valleys. A large football field forms the foreground of the project with the picturesque Ghats forming the backdrop. This seasonal stream flows into a river and is anchored to a hillock at its southern end. Placed apart from the several other facilities on the Magic Bus campus in Karjat, the Learning Pavilion is nestled within green foliage over a rivulet. This included proposals for staff accommodations and a resources centre. Architecture BRIO designed the second phase of the project. This included program such as children’s dormitories, a dining pavilion, volunteer’s accommodations and a resources centre. The first phase of the Campus was designed by Rahul Mehrotra Associates. Conceived after several successful weekend camps, the permanent Magic Bus Campus at Karjat, Maharashtra, consists of several buildings. The simply existential nature of the project lends itself to multiple inventive uses.Īn NGO founded by Matthew Spacie, Magic Bus was created with the express purpose to help channel the energies of the underprivileged children of Mumbai into sports and team building activities. The Laureus Learning Pavilion by Architecture BRIO situated in the idyllic surrounds of the Western Ghats, is, in the words of the architects, “Partly a building, partly a challenge course.” It is in fact easier to characterise the project as a series of programmes that come together in harmonious proximity than to call it a building. The pavilion re-interprets an oft-used architectural tenet into ‘form multiplies function’. This text first appeared in Domus by Ekta Idnany It reinforces that the act of the production of drawing architecture is equivalent to the act of crafting the building. The Magic Bus Centre at Karjat is a campus for underprivileged children to experience sports and team building activities, The Laureus Learning Pavilion at this campus is essentially composed of the voids that envelope the building. It is between possibilities, chance and the shape of life and action that this building – non-building operates. Furthermore it lets possibilities for programmes beyond expectations to shape up, and create the possibility for chance to shape things. It involves effort, thought, and technique to construct spaces that defy generic definitions. Architecture in this project is minimal but sharp and precise. It encourages and produce an energy of encounter and collaboration, play and creativity. In many ways the pavilion for underprivileged children design by Architecture BRIO initiates a reflection on the capacity of architecture to ‘multiply life. Deft use of spatial fluidity in planning combined with materials and details that lead to a visual interweaving of context and design produces the classical object of architecture, a brush with nature….” The House on a Stream plays with architecture as an artifice, an object of defined form and shape that sits within a landscape, within a geography. ![]() ![]() The renowned architecture magazine features articles on the Magic Bus Learning Pavilion and the House on a Stream. The Children of Magic Bus climbing the Laureus Learning Pavilion adorn the latest cover of Domus. ![]()
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