Institutional · Bokaro
An enclosed heart for school life.
The design
The client requested a hexagonal school building. The planning response places classrooms and shared facilities around an inner ground, bringing assembly, performance and everyday interaction into the centre of the scheme.
Inward-facing verandahs connect the teaching rooms while creating views across the inner ground. The arrangement supports visual supervision within the building perimeter. The ground-floor scheme brings together an amphitheatre, garden areas and a future indoor auditorium.
Planned for a CBSE curriculum, the scheme coordinates classrooms with science and computer laboratories, a library, music and arts rooms, administration and staff facilities. Three stairs are distributed around the perimeter, with an entrance ramp shown at ground level. The site plan arranges bus parking, internal roads, pedestrian paths and a separate playground around the academic block.
The school was inaugurated on 14 April 2024, and Phase 1 is operational. The campus visualisation and drawings shown here describe the proposed development; they do not define the completed extent of the first phase.
Images & views
The visualisation presents the proposed full campus. The school-in-use photograph records activity in the operational first phase. Image sources and credits are identified below.
The architectural drawings
Five portfolio planning sheets based on the proposed scheme dated 9 April 2022: site, ground, first, second and third floors. Small numbers identify room uses consistently across floors, with a key below each floor plan. Source-supported room areas and available built-up totals appear below the plans; dimension strings and construction annotations remain omitted. Select a sheet to enlarge it.
Academic building · proposed built-up area72,440 sq ft
| Space | Area |
|---|---|
| Plot | 1,00,000 sq ft · approx. 2.3 acres |
| Outdoor playground | 16,233 sq ft · plan annotation |
The project total describes the full proposed academic building, not the completed extent of Phase 1. The ground-floor sheet excludes the future 3,000 sq ft auditorium from its built-up total.
Proposed floor built-up area17,380 sq ft
| Space | Area |
|---|---|
| 01Early-years classrooms · KG1 A–D and KG2 A–D | 8 rooms · 366 sq ft each (plan); 412.5 sq ft each (schedule) |
| 02Classrooms · 1-A to 1-D | 4 rooms · 492 sq ft each (plan); 550 sq ft each (schedule) |
| 03Music room | 387 sq ft |
| 03Arts room | 387 sq ft |
| 04Principal’s room | 273 sq ft |
| 04C.S.C., SMC and vice-principal’s rooms | 3 rooms · 246 sq ft each |
| 04Faculty room | 492 sq ft |
| 05Chemistry laboratory | 615 sq ft |
| 05Laboratory store | 369 sq ft |
| 06Boys’ sick room | 185 sq ft |
| 06Girls’ sick room | 246 sq ft |
| 12Pantry | 134 sq ft |
| 10Amphitheatre | 5,840 sq ft · schedule |
| 10Garden courts · two marked zones | 2 × 2,080 sq ft · plan annotations |
| 11Indoor auditorium · future proposal | 3,000 sq ft · excluded from floor total |
Interior room areas follow the carpet-area annotations on the proposed plan dated 9 April 2022. Built-up totals include walls and circulation and are not sums of these room areas. The early-years/classroom schedule figures are listed separately from the plan’s room areas. The garden annotations show two 2,080 sq ft zones, while the schedule lists 7,340 sq ft for internal garden area; these scopes have not been reconciled. Admin-office, toilet and circulation areas are not individually stated clearly enough to publish.
Proposed floor built-up area18,840 sq ft
| Space | Area |
|---|---|
| 02Classrooms | 15 rooms · 492 sq ft carpet each; 550 sq ft each including walls |
| 13Computer laboratory | 1,507 sq ft carpet · 1,650 sq ft built-up |
| 04Faculty room | 483 sq ft |
| 15Store | 231 sq ft (plan); 260 sq ft (schedule) |
| 07Boys’ and girls’ toilet blocks | 2 blocks · 483 sq ft each (plan); 550 sq ft each (schedule) |
| 07Male and female staff toilets | 2 rooms · 211 sq ft each |
Interior room areas follow the carpet-area annotations on the proposed plan dated 9 April 2022. Built-up totals include walls and circulation and are not sums of these room areas. Where the source schedule gives a different allowance, both figures are identified separately. Verandah, stair and lift areas are not stated individually on this sheet.
| Space | Area |
|---|---|
| 02Classrooms | 16 rooms · 492 sq ft carpet each; 550 sq ft each including walls |
| 14Library | 999 sq ft |
| 04Faculty room | 483 sq ft |
| 16Conference room | 231 sq ft |
| 07Boys’ and girls’ toilet blocks | 2 blocks · 483 sq ft each |
| 07Male and female staff toilets | 2 rooms · 211 sq ft each |
Interior room areas follow the carpet-area annotations on the proposed plan dated 9 April 2022. Built-up totals include walls and circulation and are not sums of these room areas. The floor built-up total is blank on the reviewed second-floor sheet, so no floor total is inferred from the project balance. Verandah, stair and lift areas are not stated individually.
Proposed floor built-up area17,380 sq ft
| Space | Area |
|---|---|
| 02Classrooms | 15 rooms · 492 sq ft carpet each; 550 sq ft each including walls |
| 05Physics laboratory | 615 sq ft |
| 05Biology laboratory | 615 sq ft |
| 05Laboratory store | 246 sq ft |
| 15Store | 231 sq ft (plan); 260 sq ft (schedule) |
| 04Faculty room | 483 sq ft (plan); 550 sq ft (schedule) |
| 07Boys’ toilet block | 483 sq ft (plan); 550 sq ft (schedule) |
| 07Girls’ toilet block | 483 sq ft (plan); 560 sq ft (schedule) |
| 07Male and female staff toilets | 2 rooms · 211 sq ft each (plan); 260 sq ft each (schedule) |
| 08Stairs | 3 stairs · 170 sq ft each · schedule |
| 08Capsule lift | 55 sq ft · schedule |
Interior room areas follow the carpet-area annotations on the proposed plan dated 9 April 2022. Built-up totals include walls and circulation and are not sums of these room areas. Schedule figures are separate allowances and do not replace the carpet areas marked inside the rooms. No library area is supplied here: the source list mentions a library, but this floor’s drawing allocates its rooms to laboratories.
Portfolio drawings adapted from the APAS planning archive, with discreet ownership credits. Not to scale or for construction. The central auditorium remains a future proposal; these drawings do not establish the as-built extent of Phase 1.
Our involvement
Architectural planning by Ar. Anupam Prasad: site and floor layouts, with revisions to room allocation, access and shared facilities.
Architectural planning and drawings: Ar. Anupam Prasad, Anupam Prasad Architecture Studio.
Campus visualisation: published by Apna School; shown as the proposed full development.
School-in-use photograph: Laxman Singh, published by Apna School on 2 April 2025.
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