Innovations in Infrastructure

“A School is a building that has four walls with tomorrow inside.”
- Lon Watters.

Children spend their maximum time in school as a student. Thus, the school infrastructure is a major factor behind how a child sees the world as they grow up. The architecture of The Pupil Saveetha Eco School has been inspired by love for children, respect for the natural environment and local culture. The impressive 5 acre campus is designed to be a safe haven for children and built with eco-friendly and locally sourced materials, combining the best of traditional values and modern technology.

1. An Eco School in Practice and Principle

The Pupil Saveetha Eco School is the first school in Chennai to be awarded the Platinum LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Certification for its eco-friendly and innovative infrastructural features, such as:

• Octogonal classrooms designed to maximize natural lighting and ventilation.
• Porotherm bricks to provide natural insulation and regulate temperature.
• Fully air-conditioned facilities that use VRF technology with eco-friendly, CFC-free refrigerants and five air exchanges per hour, to ensure air purity comparable to hospital operation theaters.
• Solar panels installed on the roof of the school buildings to optimize use of renewable energy sources.
• Greenery surrounding the campus, including indigenous plant species, herb gardens and fruit trees.
• Ramps and elevators available to aid the physically challenged.

2. Prime Evolving Laboratories and Technology

In this age of rapidly evolving science and technology, The Pupil Saveetha Eco School stays ahead of the curve by incorporating latest and high-end technology in our classrooms and laboratories. This helps students and faculty make the best use of available resources and optimize learning through practical application. Pupilites enjoy the use of:

• Smart Boards with interactive display and speakers in every classroom, for vivid and sound understanding of content - each classroom is a dynamic laboratory for learning.
• Fully air-conditioned facilities for maximum thermal comfort.
• Up-to-date computer systems and softwares to facilitate technological literacy and maximal efficiency installed in Computer Labs and Staff Rooms for student and faculty use respectively.
• Multiple Science Labs, including a Concept Lab, Physics Lab, Chemistry Lab and Biology Lab, for different age groups, furnished with the latest equipment and safety apparatus allowing students to experience and understand scientific concepts.

3. Free to Run, Free to Swim 
Free to Play, Free to Win

The Pupil, being a school which considers sports to be just as important as academics in promoting the all-round growth of an individual, boasts of state-of-the-art sports facilities to provide the best possible training to students. Some of the notable facilities on campus include:

• A spacious two-floors high Hall of Gymnastics with all required apparatus, including balance beams, vaults, uneven bars, parallel bars, pommel horse, trampolines and floor mats.
• A 25-metre Olympic Standard Swimming Pool
• A Professional Standard Synthetic Tennis Court
• Two vast playgrounds, one of which is a lawn turf, that fulfil multiple uses, ranging from athletics and cricket to kabaddi and football.
• A Professional Standard Basketball Court

4. Room for Every Requirement

The Pupil Saveetha Eco School has multiple public spaces for students to develop and display their expertise in various fields, such as:

• Space, a 500-seater auditorium, with state-of-the-art sound, light and display systems. The Space also doubles as an in-house mini-planetarium, as the ceiling is lit by constellations.
• Art Gallery, a dynamic space where students exhibit their creations.
• Graffiti - The Pupil’s compound walls are a canvas for Pupilities to express themselves and make their mark on their home ground.
• Multi-Purpose Hall, a room for every requirement.

5. Event Horizon, a Library with a Difference

The Event Horizon is our library complex which houses 15,000+ books for the perusal of all members of The Pupil community. It is an ocean of calm and infinite knowledge within the active and bustling campus.
In scientific terms, an event horizon is a region in spacetime beyond which light cannot totally escape, because the gravitational pull of an object becomes so great as to make escape impossible. The Pupil’s library has been named as such because we believe that no one can truly escape the world of books once they have experienced its massive pull.