ECO-CONSCIOUS DESIGN

RAAS Chhatrasagar designed by Studio Lotus is an award-winning project showcasing a camp-like design vocabulary that borrows from regional influences and reinterpretation of indigenous craft forms.

The project is a luxury wildlife camping destination perched atop a century-old check dam on the banks of the Chhatrasagar Lake, Nimaj, in Rajasthan's Pali district (between the cities of Jaipur and Jodhpur).

The project showcases a camp-like design vocabulary that borrows from regional influences and reinterpretation of indigenous craft forms. For instance, the tensile fabric roof for the tented pods stretches over a series of lightweight partitions mounted with boarding and hand-painted fabrics executed in collaboration with printmaker Dhvani Behl's studio Flora For Fauna.

The hotel comprises a restaurant and stilted tentlike pods in a linear configuration along the length of the dam. It provides guests with a year-round opportunity to observe the region's biodiversity amidst 600 acres of regenerated forest, from the panoramic views of the lake on the east to the serenity of the forest belt on the west.