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Building: Pearl Academy of Fashion
Location: Jaipur, Rajasthan, India
Completed: 2008
Architect: Morphogenesis
HVAC: Design Centre
Electrical: Integral Designs
Plumbing: Tech Consultancy
Structure: N M Roof Designers Ltd.
Contractors: R G Colonizers Pvt. Ltd.
Design Team: Sonali Rastogi, Rudrajit Sabhaney, Anna Kristiana Bergbom, Shruti Dimri, John Alok Decruz

AE Interests: The architecture of the academy needed to be a confluence of modern adaptations of traditional Indo-Islamic architectural elements and passive cooling strategies prevalent in the hot-dry desert climate of Rajasthan, such as open courtyards, water body, a step-well or baoli and jaalis (perforated stone screen).  The entire building is raised above the ground and a scooped out under belly forms a natural thermal sink which is cooled by water bodies through evaporative cooling.

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