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“Architectural” features and technologies

The main entrance façade is very carefully designed, which appears to be very grand and huge solid structure.

The pathway leading to the entrance is provided with patches of grass, alternatively at a distance to brush off the dust of the coming pupil.

Walls:

The initial choice for the building was to use compressed earth blocks but due to lack of proper technical know-how and poor quality of soil, the quality of the bricks was not acceptable. Hence the idea was abandoned and instead wire-cut bricks were employed.

The walls are built of exposed wire cut bricks (sun dried), which are brought from a place, Nujvid which is around 120 Km away from the city. All the walls are of 9-inch thickness making it a total load bearing structure. The interior of the walls is plastered to a height of 3 feet and the rest is left exposed. This is to provide an aesthetical view in the interiors with half exposed and half plastered and later white washed. This also has an advantage of heat insulation and even avoids any damage of the exposed brick to a certain extent. On the exterior the bricks are exposed and are cross-arranged at an interval height, one just above the plinth level and next just below the slab level, giving it a more pleasing effect. This type of exposed brick construction makes it exclusively maintenance free.

Flooring:

The flooring of the whole building is done using cuddapah stone, which is comparatively at a very low cost than other type of flooring material. It has an advantage of maintaining a very low temperature. Black and white cuddapah stones are used as per the design in different rooms.

Columns:

The columns, which run along the length of the corridor, remain exposed to that of the brick walls but of neatly chiseled stone (Laterite) each of dia 7 inches and height 5 inches, arranged one over the other to attain a height of 10feet. This exposed stone column makes it very much related to the rest of the building.

The columns at the entrance of the Information center are of exposed brick, cross arranged making it a total twisted column

Roof system:

The type of roof construction adopted in construction of the building are divided in three categories

Funicular shell:

All the room has been placed under this category. First the moulds have been prepared at a standard size of 15feetX10feet with a rise of 1feet 9inches making it feasible for all the rooms. Separate square moulds have been prepared for the rooms coming in front with a size of 15feet X 15feet with a rise of 2feet 9 inches making it more visible that rest of the blocks.
In this type of construction the bricks are laid in vertical position over the edges and later row are laid as per the design. As such separate designs have been maintained in different room and no such arrangement is been repeated. A hollow dome structure is formed in the interior, however no concrete is used in the process but a mixture of cement and sand is used to lay on the exterior roof surface.

Ferro concrete

- The roof above the Information centre is in the shape of a hollow pyramid built of R.C.C. It is built to a height of 20feet,making it very impressive. The pyramid is surrounded on all the four sides by cross triangle, which reaches up to the full height of the structure, they even act as means of cross ventilation.

The shape of the structure makes it very much favourable for heat insulation. The rooms around the main hall are constructed of funicular shell roof.