ARCHITECTURAL FOCUS
Photographs : Sreenag BRS
THE LEARNING CENTRE
KSM ARCHITECTURE
The learning center at Quest is located on a 540 sq . m piece of land , about 300m from the seafront in Besant Nagar , Chennai , India . It is a learning center intended for children aged 8 to 16 years old . The center acts as a learning and interaction space for largely homeschooled children , or those with the ‘ unschooling ’ pattern of education , which involves teaching children based on their interests , rather than a set curriculum .
The learning center has been designed as a collection of free-flowing volumes that provide a feeling of space and visual connectivity . One gains access to the building through a tree-lined front court that has a set of steps and a ramp .
One enters the rectangular building footprint in the center into an atrium-like volume that opens up to
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