A dilapidated bat infested fort near Udaipur was being remodeled to become a boutique hotel. Built along a hill over a 100 feet high , it presented many courts as one climbed the fort. All that remained were the names Zenana Court (Ladies Court); Kamal Court (Lotus Court), Darbar Court (Royal Court) and others, about 8 of them altogether. There were no physical traces of what these courts may have been nor any recorded descriptions. Dispensing with the route that would allow them to be recreated in the image of similar courts elsewhere in the state, the studio created a series of mental constructs. Spaces that reminded the viewer of the past, allowed contemplation on the present, and at times upon the idea of timelessness. One then came upon the Devi (Goddesses) Court, marked with two large rocks as her incarnation, with a Bauhinia that flowered behind them. The Royal Court, received a rough hewn white marble throne with a tree shading it and it presided over a black floor that through its pattern circumscribed an arc – almost as if the Gods were overseeing the world from the edge of the cosmos. A fountain in the Ladies Court allowed the water to be taken in its womb, an ode to the difficult lives of women in feudal lands, where their voices are often stilled. The Lotus Court got a modern makeover; terraces etched the jaggedness of the mountains on their floors. In a court that held the stables and now remodeled rooms, the landscape was for many years of fodder grass, till slowly the trees matured. At the rear of the palace boulders found on site were sculpted as soldiers with Sansevieria headgear, lined up, looking at the valley in anticipation of war, and in a lower terrace a traditional four square garden with a gravity fed water source was designed to grow herbs and vegetables.