Indian desert school's unique design offers respite from heat Jaisalmer (India) (AFP) – In the sweltering heat of India's Thar desert, where summer highs soar above 50 degrees Celsius, an ...

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At the school, it is used to promote ventilation, creating a breeze channeled by the building's oval shape. "There is cross-ventilation," said school supervisor Rajinder Singh Bhati, aged 29.

Temperatures inside the school, designed by US-based architect Diana Kellogg and built by local artisans—many of them parents of pupils—can be as much as 20 percent lower than those outside.

At the school, it is used to promote ventilation, creating a breeze channelled by the building’s oval shape. “There is cross-ventilation,” said school supervisor Rajinder Singh Bhati, aged 29.