SANDIPANI VIDYALAYA MAHIDPUR CM RISE SCHOOL
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School Education Dept. MP
Mahidpur, Madhya Pradesh
2025- Completed
1,10,000 sqft.
Education, Learning Spaces, Government school, Public Education Infrastructure
Sandipani Vidyalaya is a Government High School developed under the CM Rise Program by the School Education Department, Madhya Pradesh, aimed at transforming over 300 schools across the state.
Situated on a 2.29-acre site in Mahidpur Village, Ashok Nagar district, the school now accommodates 1500 students—three times its original capacity. The campus includes 43 classrooms, various subject and vocational labs, a multi-level library, art, dance and music rooms, and a 200-seater dining hall with kitchen and canteen.
Designed as an inward-looking courtyard typology, the building minimizes solar exposure, enhances microclimate cooling, and offers shaded atriums, green terraces and breakout spaces
The master planning and zoning allows segregated circulation for vehicles and pedestrians while organising the open areas into consolidated green courts. The courts are functionally segregated and physically connected through a shaded multipurpose space flanked by dance and music rooms. While the central courtyard with its stage functions as the assembly space for the school given the shade and visual connectivity from all the floors, the external courtyard is dedicated for free play and organised sports. The entry to the school is articulated through a shaded court enclosed in metal jaali with native climbers, flowering trees and barrier-free sightlines extending through the central court to the free-play area.
The internal circulation is strategically split for senior and junior students with junior kids occupying the south east corner of the school and senior students on the north west, both zones separated by vertical cores. The ground floor is dedicated to the pre-primary classrooms and common functions like library, dining, canteen dance and music rooms. The corridors are single loaded and wide with the linearity broken down with color pops, terraces and double height spaces. The landscape climbs onto the first-floor corridor which is designed as a wide green walkway with curvilinear seaters, planters and lockers shaded with pergola and jaali.
The classrooms and student areas are age-appropriate, technology enabled and simulated to perform in extreme climates. All spaces, indoor and outdoor, are naturally lit, cross-ventilated and glare free. Passive and low-cost strategies like double walls and embedded storage add to the thermal mass reducing heat gain, while recessed windows and customised ventilators cut glare and regulate cross ventilation. Fan heights are manipulated to reduce heat gain from roof and metal jaalis softened by green climbers cut heat and dust. The design prioritizes universal accessibility through features like tactile floor and ramp enclosed in an elliptical metal jaali providing weather protection and access to all floors. The ramp further provides enclosure and shade to the canteen spill out.
Toilets, staircases, drinking water areas, atriums and corridors are all planned as potential spaces for interaction that are robust, child-scaled and safe. Toilets are segregated based on age and gender with fixture height that are ergonomically planned and partition heights customized for safety and privacy. Special care is taken to design toilets as vibrant and inviting spaces that are free of any dark corners, art-inspired and easily maintained. The sub-tropical color palette not only generates interest but also allows navigation through color and emotional comfort for the children. Native fruiting and flowering trees lining the courtyards and site boundary further softens the landscape, blocks dust, invites birds and butterflies while imparting a sense of familiarity to the landscape.
