Sent in the undulating hills north of Thruvanthapuram, this school draws inspiration from the exquisite palace of Padmanabapuram with outward tilting balconies, connecting bridges and low overhanging roofs. As an experimental education school, the program and the layout of spaces was adventurous with mixed age’s groups and project based learning.

Respecting the climate all the buildings are connected with covered bridges and walkways that follow the natural contours of the landscape to avoid the heat and monsoon, yet each space also opens out to landscape directly on the ground level.

The building materials are exposed local bricks walls, terracotta Mangalore tiles and steel. The embodied energy of the building was kept to a minimum. This school was awarded “Educational design” prize in 2006 from DesignShare USA.