Designed by 24H > architecture, Panyaden is a private bilingual school with a Buddhist approach that will accommodate 375 students including 10- 20 percent of local Thai kids funded by scholarships. The students will be the ambassadors to introduce green living into the lives of their communities. In addition to the Thai and native English speaking teachers, they will be supervised by experts in various arts, creativity as well as traditional wisdom such as local agricultural methods, specialists in tropical forest plants, cloth weaving, and northern cuisine etc.
Photography: Ally Taylor
Panyaden School aims to deliver a holistic education that integrates Buddhist principles and green awareness with the highly regarded, International Primary Curriculum.
In the lush green surroundings of a former fruit orchard, where Thailand?s highest mountains meet the flat rice fields, Panyaden School contracted 24H to design its environmentally friendly school buildings.

Located south of the city of Chiang Mai, this 5,000 sqm primary school consists of an informal arrangement of pavilions organized along pathways inspired by the shape of the tropical antler horn fern.
Photography: Ally Taylor
This original design has since evolved organically to its final form which is still in keeping with its original purpose of creating buildings from the earth?s elements and shapes that are an ode to nature?s beauty.

There are two main types of buildings the classroom pavilion type and the sala...