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The Filler-Slab School

A primary school where the building is the lesson - exposed filler-slab ceilings, daylit classrooms, and a water cycle children can watch.

On site nowYear2025PlaceKozhikode, KeralaSectorEducational

Reference image, not a CHAYP project. Site photography in progress.

The project, in our own words

Classrooms are oriented and cross-ventilated so they stay comfortable without fans for most of the year. The filler-slab roofs leave a terracotta grid overhead - structure as a teaching surface.

Rainwater is harvested into a visible tank and greywater feeds the kitchen garden, so the children grow up seeing where water comes from and where it goes.

What it changes

100% of classrooms daylit

Daylight

Indicative design-stage estimate - sample project for preview

~22% via filler slab

Concrete saved

Indicative design-stage estimate - sample project for preview

On site now

Status

Project status - sample

How it looks, and what it is made of

a few frames

Real site photography will replace these. For now, each frame is a warm reference of the materials and the land this project grows from, never passed off as the building itself.

An open courtyard among plants (Reference image, not a CHAYP project)
The land this project grows from, as we found it.
A potter's clay-stained hands at the wheel (Reference image, not a CHAYP project)
Tropical monstera foliage (Reference image, not a CHAYP project)
If this feels like yours

rooted like this

Tell us about your land and the life you picture on it. We start where every project starts, with the ground itself.