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Site Plan.

Building model with three carved courts and an intricate facade.

Pearl Academy of Fashion

The academy building as a modern, progressive expression.

Facade with an external ‘Jaali’ screen for climatic control.

Longitudinal Section.

The idea of passive cooling embedded in the design.

Double-skinned facade of the building with an external and an internal layer for insulation.

Pearl Academy of Fashion

The academy building as a modern, progressive expression.

Facade with an external ‘Jaali’ screen for climatic control.

Site Plan.

Building model with three carved courts and an intricate facade.

Longitudinal Section.

The idea of passive cooling embedded in the design.

Double-skinned facade of the building with an external and an internal layer for insulation.

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           Set in a rather lifeless Kukas industrial suburb of Jaipur, the Pearl Academy of Fashion is an institution of excellence set in a hot-dry climatic context. The idea of design for the institute departs from a basic concept of creation of a micro-climate to counter the extremities of a typically hot climatic context. While being expressive in its architectural language, the building adheres to passive climatic control techniques and local mechanisms to establish a comfortable interior while saving energy in the process.

            As a confluence of modern design expressions through traditional and local ideas, the building is a rectangular mass placed on an underbelly carved from the earth which acts as a heat-sink by retaining temperature throughout the day keeping the indoors comfortable. The double-skin of the building is an abstraction of the traditional ‘Jaalis’ creating a mechanism of self-shading and thus cutting the thermal gain due to solar radiation. Multiple and interconnected courts of the building are landscaped with water-bodies and vegetation that use recycled water from the STP.

          The building makes use of local stone, glass, steel and concrete as primary building materials. The efficacy of the cost-effective passive architecture is realised when the indoor temperature of naturally lit classrooms stays at 27° while the outdoor temperature is at 47°. The building acts as a 100 per cent self sufficient microcosm by recycling its waste and harvesting rain-water. No artificial climate-control techniques are used in the building. The design, while representing an aspiring image of a progressive institute building, derives its contextual relevance and effectiveness through abstraction of local concepts of building.

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