Pearl Academy of Fashion

Jaipur, India, Asia Pacific

Completed · Education · Passive-Cooled Education Campus · Arid · 2008

An 11,745 sqm fashion design campus in Rajasthan that maintains interior temperatures of 27°C when outside conditions reach 47°C entirely through passive means. The design reinterprets traditional Indo-Islamic building elements — double-skin jaali screens, stepped baoli wells, and self-shading courtyards — as a systematic climate-control strategy rather than ornament.

Innovation highlights

• Double-skin perforated stone jaali screen reduces direct heat gain while admitting diffused daylight
• Passive downdraft evaporative cooling via drip channels on the inner jaali face
• Sunken stepwell (baoli) integrated into courtyard for natural evaporative cooling
• Zero mechanical cooling in studio spaces through thermally buffered double skin
• Raises internal temperature comfort 20°C below ambient without HVAC

Client / Developer

Pearl Academy

Architect

Morphogenesis

Engineer

Arup (structural consultant)

Type

Passive-Cooled Education Campus

#passive cooling #vernacular adaptation #double skin #evaporative cooling #zero mechanical cooling #arid climate #education #India

View source