Queen Mary's school is located in Rajasthan, Ajmer; the city which has been home to many dynasties, which came and left leaving behind indelible marks of their culture and traditions on the city’s history, converting it to an amalgam of various cultures and blend of Hinduism and Islam. It being a popular pilgrimage, it portrays a defined tourist image versus an intrinsic cultured home town for its citizens.

The concept addresses the built and un-built space balance, nature as a concern and contextualizing the deconstructed form into the history of Ajmer architecture. It is this riotous and playful spirit of children bound in faint lines of discipline that characterizes the design of school.

Geometrically the site is orthogonal, which frames diagonally placed buildings, forming corner courtyards, looking into each other. Instead of one central large open space, it fragments the space into smaller functional spaces. The underlining parallel drawn with the city is its continuous circulation and corridors continue into unremitting flight of steps and into the courtyard. By wrapping around the courtyard the steps buffer the heat by forming a second skin to the building.

Arches are used as the major structural elements, aptly translated from the site context, and highlighted by keeping them in exposed concrete. The walls and railings are offset from these arches, to further enhance the lintel beams becoming a design element.