School Architecture

Panyaden School was conceived to provide an atmosphere that is peaceful and close to nature. Furthermore the school wants to demonstrate how to live an environmentally mindful life with a low carbon footprint. Therefore earth/clay, stones and bamboo were chosen as the main construction materials.

Walls are built either from rammed earth or adobe bricks (clay mixed with sand and rice husk). The roofs are built entirely from treated bamboo.

The layout is based on the antler-fern leaf structure.

There are 3 nursery and kindergarten buildings, 2 primary school buildings, a dance and music pavilion, a sensory motor room for the little ones, an IT/library/science building, a workshop to teach woodwork and cloth making, an agricultural teaching and support pavilion, a swimming pool, a kitchen and dining hall, a small and a big assembly hall.

Our rooms are designed so that we only need air-conditions in those rooms that have computers. All other rooms are cooled and ventilated through the choice of materials and way they are built.