A New School in The Great Indian Desert, Designed by Sanjay Puri Architects
We continue our September “Education & Learning” theme by taking you to Rajasthan, India, a state in northern India roughly 245 miles from the country’s capital city of New Delhi. Rajasthan, translating to mean “Land of Kings,” is the seventh largest Indian state by population and the largest by land area. The state comprises most of the wide and inhospitable Thar Desert, also known as the “Great Indian Desert” and shares a border with Pakistan. There, in a town called Ras, on a site location of 190,000 square feet and across a built area of 93,000 square feet, the new Rajasthan School is a “low rise, three level school made up of open, enclosed and semi-enclosed spaces of various volumes.” Designed by Sanjay Puri Architects, a firm with a young team of 70+ architects, the Rajasthan School intends to “imbibe the organic character of Indian villages and old cities” – …
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