India has a glorious history of temple architecture. The desert state of Rajasthan, where the temple is located, has an equally diverse and refined heritage of buildings set in an unforgiving climatic zone. Given this legacy, to design a contemporary Hindu temple set in the sand dunes of Rajasthan has been an enormous challenge.

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Architects: SpaceMatters

Location: Barmer, Rajasthan 344001, India

Design Lead: Amritha Ballal, Suditya Sinha

Designers: SpaceMatters

Area: 4360.0 sqm

Project Year: 2016

Photographs: Akash Kumar Das, Anand Lakhani , Krishna Shrivastava, SpaceMatters, JSW RWPL
Client: JSW Raj West Power Ltd

Space Matters Design Team: Anand Lakhani, Juhi Mehta, Rishi Suman, Adarsh Saravanan,Sneha Kathi, Waseem Ahmad

Structural Design: Sanjeev Aggarwal - Ace Designs, Kulwinder Singh - Design Roots

Project Management: RWPL - Civil Works Department

Executing Agency: KS Constructions

Vastu Consultant: Ashok Sharma

Advisors: Adam Hardy, Vishakha Kawathekar, Moulshri Joshi

Plot Area: 4360 m2

Built Up Area : 138 m2

© Akash Kumar Das

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