‘Like paradise’: Indian desert school provides respite from heat • FRANCE 24 English
Amid the sweltering heat of India’s Thar desert, where temperatures can soar past 50°C, a uniquely designed school is providing young pupils with an oasis of cool. The Rajkumari Ratnavati girls’ school, near Jaisalmer in Rajasthan state, uses a mix of modern design and age-old techniques to keep out the heat, making it “like a paradise” for pupils, many of whom come from crowded homes with no fans or ventilation.
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44 comments
"Girls school"
Uh… does India still do segregation by sex in schools?
Edit: Does India know about passive geothermal cooling loops? I ask because they don't mention using those at all but Earthships rely on them.
great!
Deserves the highest architectural recognition and award, and anything and everything else rewarding because it’s also a modern school! Well done also as a modern adaptation of ancient designs. We may all need this eco-innovation in future.
They soak it with water; entire structure is surface area evaporative cooler — probably uses hundreds of thousands of gallons of water???
(Think watering a football field or cricket pitch)
Beautiful
This school is cool.
Beautiful school. western media showing positive things about India is a biggest surprise here.
This is magnificent. I love good design!
The only paradise in this world is happy childhood
This should be implemented in the entire India.
Lol haters still saying "but no toilets" in the comments. Grow up
✨👍 Best 🏆 Design 👍✨
Imagine if the US invested in projects like this one around the globe, and truly invested in education for its own citizens, instead of funding the military and wars around the globe.
We in the United States need to consider this sort of design carefully as temps, especially in the West stay higher longer, and the grid is more and more challenged.
Amazing architecture.
none of this could have been built without the support of a western foundation. it's right there at 1:44
0:06 Looks like Rajasthan is not desert anymore thanks to Hindus 👍
Wow nice story! Thanks for sharing France24. I was in India many times including this year and last year. And I it is really making progress compared to say 20y ago although sometimes slower than one would hope. But I see a bright future for India.
I wonder if they learn the basics on how to become a scammer there, and defraud people, especially vulnerable seniors of their savings.
Of course the United States pays for the school because the United States pays for everything for everybody
So they only built one school? Lmao a lot of praise for very little work bharat.
The music in the beginning makes it sound like all the kids got eaten by some desert monster. WTF.
Ancient innovation making comeback.
Make subtitle larger a lnd put a contracting color behind it.
Background noise is awful.
Thank you for helping these children have a good education.
0:04 temperature can soar past 50°C
1:13 Temperature inside can be as much as 20% lower than outside
So 50°C outside, 40°C inside 🥵
I wish there was a better explanation of how the cooling works.
Don't know who constructed it with such a great quality
A perfect landing site
for a UFO.
Why can't we see the inside ?
When the outside temperature is 40C, the coolest inside temperature would be 32C. Still not conducive to learning much.
very interesting – if Jaisalmer's climate sees something like 42C day and 30C night then I'll presume this has a lot of thermal mass to cool down at night, with an evaporative cooling effect from the cross-ventilation – didn't see ventilation chimneys as in North Africa but I guess it's relative – coming from 42C outside, 30C in a dry climate Could feel like heaven …
Looks like a giant zeer. Cool!
so beautiful❤
20 percent sounds great, but what does it actually mean? 20% of 100c? 20% of kelvin, dropping it to well below freezing? Without context, it doesn't help.
The French are fruits we all saw the Olympics
Lovely👏🏿
Brilliant! Why can't more buildings be built like this?
Pretty amazing! That water flowing right next to the building looks a bit concerning for its foundation though. Best wishes for these people.
Are those mobile solar cells..be real smart.
I'm glad they are using more solar energy. Hopefully they can soon afford to use more of it.
Ufff… Just looking at comments from hindutwa fascists amazing that french news outlet not mentioned their fascist activities in a bulletin actually amazes me….
Love the design. Brilliant!❤❤❤❤
Ouch, so if it's up to 20% lower and regularly reaches 50C, that means it's still 98 deg….