The “BALA Project” (Building as Learning Aid) by Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan (KVS) is an innovative approach to enhance the learning environment for students. This project transforms school infrastructure into an interactive learning space, where walls, floors, corridors, and classrooms are designed to engage students in experiential learning. By integrating educational elements such as alphabets, numbers, shapes, and concepts into the physical environment, the BALA Project aims to make learning more accessible, enjoyable, and effective for children. The project fosters creativity and curiosity among students, encouraging them to explore and learn actively within the school premises.
BaLA is a way to holistically plan and use the school infrastructure. It incorporates the ideas of activity based learning, child friendliness and inclusive education for children with special needs (CWSN). At the core, it assumes that the architecture of school can be a resource for the teaching-learning processes.
Since buildings are the most expensive physical assets of a school, efforts should be made to derive maximum educational value from them. Thus, BaLA is about exploring uniqueness of three dimensional space as a child friendly learning resource for all children.
