The document summarizes the site plan, concept, and key design features of the Druk White Lotus School in Ladakh, India. The master plan centers buildings around courtyards oriented on a north-south axis. Buildings use local stone, timber, and extensive glazing for passive solar heating. Classrooms are designed for natural ventilation and daylighting to create a comfortable learning environment. Water conservation strategies include waterless composting toilets.

1. Site plan
Internal space
Site level zoning
Circulation
Visual
experience
& journey
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SECMOL ,Leh ladakh Inferences
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Built-open relationships
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3. 1. MAHADWARA
2. SECURITY CHECK
3. IT DEPARTMENT
4. ADMINISTRATION
5. SCIENCE CENTRE
6. ACADEMIC QUADRANGLE
7. CATERING CENTRE
8. MULTIPURPOSE HALL
9. ART CENTRE
10. LIBRARY
11. TOILET
ACADEMIC BLOCK RESIDENTIAL BLOCK
Semi Formal Planning
CONCEPT
• The building are a reflection of the
mountains surrounding the campus
• Benninger chose to break down the scale
and articulate the units as in a small town,
he centred the plans around a quadrangle
with passages radiating out from it.
• In other words, plan is conceived as path
driven.
THE CAMPUS
• The campus is divided into two separate parts-
• One is the residential area.
• The residential area has five separate living areas
called ‘wadas’.
• Each wada houses students as well as faculty.
• The social centre has pool table, gym , small shops
driven by students .
• Other facility include basketball ,cricket ground and
swimming pool.
• The academic area consists of classrooms,
laboratories, administrative offices, art studios,
library and no. of lawns.
Playing football, with the valley forming a
dramatic backdrop.
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5. INTRODUCTION
Ladakh, the Persian transliteration of the Tibetan
societies, is a district which is located in the state of
Jammu & Kashmir which presently extends from Kunlun
mountain range to the main great Himalayas to the
south includes the upper Indus River Valley.
The school was started at the request of the people of
Ladakh who wanted a school that would help maintain
their rich cultural traditions, based on Tibetan
Buddhism, while equipping their children for a life in the
21st century
Druk White Lotus School is locally known as Druk Padma
Karpo School where Padma stands for Lotus and Karpo
means white in their Bodhi language.
The school initially started with only 20 students focusing
to maintain their rich cultural tradition based on Tibetan
Buddhism.
• Location: Shey, Ladakh, India
• Latitude/Longitude: 34º N, 77º
40’ E, alt. 3,700m
• Building type: School
• Completion: First phase in 2001,
phase 2 in 2004, all phases by
2009
• Client: Drukpa Trust
• Design team: Arup Associates
and Arup The school is located in
the village of Shey in
Ladakh, in far north India.

6. BUILDING DATA
The project has been conceived as a contemporary model for a
appropriate and sustaible development in harmony with local
culture.The Master Plan takes advantage of site with a complex of
buildings based around courtyards that are planned primarily on
one level,oriented along a North-South axis for Residential and
the other buildings facing the South-East axis
MASTER PLAN
Site Area-130,000 sq.m(13 Hectars)
Ground Floor Area-1200 sq.m
Total Covered Area-1240 sq.m
Nursery and Infant School-800 sq.m
Residence-440 sq.m
CONCEPT & EVOLUTION OF PLANNING
PLAN OF A MANDALA
The basic form of Mandala,the
Buddhist spritual symbol,is a square
grid representing the sacred place
secured by the protecting walls
Their scared spaces are woven into
Nine-sqaured grids.Where
education and spirituality comes
together to create a tranquile

7. The Nursery and Infant school consists of two parallel buildings
that frame an open courtyard.Each of these buildings is enclosed
on three side by a stone wall which protects it from the Northerly
winds during the long cold winters and provides thermal mass.In
contrast,the south-east facades are extensively glazed to provide
direct solar energy for heating and natural light.
SECTION A-A SHOWING THE NURSERY AND COURTYARD
INFANT AND NURSERY BLOCK

8. Ladakh lacks the usage of natural resources for complex construction so
glass,structual timber,cement and steel have been bought from outside the local
community and delivered from other parts of Kashmir.
All the structure in the campus of the school are one storey structure which are
using timber frames to resist seismic loads and ensure life safety in the event of
an earthquake.
The timber frame are independent of the walls and steel connections and cross
bracing provides stability at the time of earthquake.
The classrooms have well shaded openable windows that allow natural cross
ventilation that provides a cool glare free,high quality teaching environment.
Usage of local stone and timber building with fully glazed south facing facade
has been incorporated in the nursery and infant school for the usage of passive
solar heating
B.STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS
A.PASSIVE SOLAR HEATING
• The reason to design passive solar buildings is to
acquire the benefit of local climate for emerging a
proper sustainable planning.
• In passive solar building designs, all the structural
members of the building especially walls, floor and
windows are prepared to store, collect and distribute
solar energy in the form of heat in the winters and
reject solar heat in summers.
• In Druk White Lotus School, all the classroom buildings
are oriented 30 degree east of true south to gather
early morning warm rays of sun.
• This orientation of all the academic block results in
ample amount of sunlight to penetrate inside
throughout the day and creates a comfortable
atmosphere inside the classrooms.

9. The campus of Druk White Lotus School in
located in the desert of ladakh region. The whole
campus and the habitation of the nearby areas
are dependent on glaciers, surface water sources
and even on springs for their survival as water is
required for living.
The ground water is also extracted from deep
wells and are pumped to 16,000 gallon tank
which is further located on a higher ground than
the buildings it serves.
As far as the planning of campus is concern, all
the toilets adjacent to the buildings are working
on the principles of Waterless Ventilated
Improved Pit (VIP) toilets.
These toilets were designed to use solar assisted
stack ventilators which helps to create odourless
compost and becomes an excellent fertilizers and
used for many other agricultural activities.
D.WATERUSE
The composting latrines are
clad with metal that is painted
black to absorb heat and
causes fumes.The roof is made
from a combination of mud
and local wood.Rock wool and
felt are used to insulate.On top
of this they have added
Corrugated Aluminium sheets
to cover the felt.