Constructed with hand cut local sandstone, The Rani Ratnavati Girls’ School will address the need to educate girls and empower women from the neighboring villages in Jaisalmer, Rajasthan. The oval forms were employed to reflect the curvilinear shapes of the local forts and also universal symbols of female strength.
Project completed for the non-profit Citta Foundation CITTA.org.
The strong architectural form… and the functionality it served for education of rural kids who lived in the desert. The context it stood in was amazing “in the middle of nowhere” . The joy I could see on the kids faces when they moved inside the building is difficult to describe in words.
