Social Design Collaborative has created ModSkool, a modular anti-eviction school for squatter communities in Delhi that can be quickly dismantled if the settlement is demolished.
ModSkool is made of cheap materials such as bamboo and local craft techniques such as charpai weaving.
ModSkool has already moved location once
The concept was developed after a school for 200 children in a settlement close to the river Yamuna was declared illegal and demolished.
In response, the community approached Social Design Collaborative for a structure that could be rapidly demounted, "before the bulldozers could arrive on ground to demolish it," explained the studio.
The first ModSkool was built after a squatter community lost their school when it was declared illegal First built in 2017, the ModSkool has already had to respond to issues of land ownership and was recently moved and re-built in a new location.
Social Design Collaborative created the school in collaboration with the squatter community.
The community approached Social Design Collaborative for the project
ModSkool's core structure is a bolted steel frame surrounding a single classroom.
This frame is clad with bamboo, reclaimed wood and dried grass ? all materials commonly used to build homes in the area.
The school can be dismantled and moved before it is demolished
The exterior of the school is a series of rotating bamboo screens, so the classroom to be completely opened up to provide natural ventilation.
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