2. MAJOR BUILDINGS BUILD BY AVEI IN AND AROUND AUROVILLE
3. DIVERSITY OF EARTHEN BUILDINGS IN AUROVILLE2.1 Houses2.2 Apartments2.3 Public buildings
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1 AUROVILLE’S INTRODUCTION
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Foundation of Auroville on 28th February 1968:People from 124 countries dropped a handful of earth in an urn, as a testimony of Human
Unity
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Auroville belongs to nobody in particular. Auroville belongs to humanity as a whole. But to live in Auroville, one must be the willing servitor of the Divine Consciousness.
Auroville will be the place of an unending education, of constant progress, and a youth that never ages.
Auroville wants to be the bridge between the past and the future. Taking advantage of all discoveries from without and from within, Auroville will boldly spring towards future realisations.
Auroville will be a site of material and spiritual researches for a living embodiment of an actual Human Unity.
28th February 1968The Mother
AUROVILLE CHARTER
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1968: A land devastated by the cutting of trees
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For years: Healing the earth by an extensive reforestation
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Since 1968: A few millions trees planted 8
Matrimandir, the meditation chamber and soul of Auroville 9
Auroville attempts to link the ancestral tradition of raw earth buildingwith the modern technology of stabilised earth
Earth, as a building material, can be used for creatinga modern, progressive and eco-friendly habitat
Compressed Stabilised Earth Blocks (CSEB)is today the technology used the most
worldwide and in Auroville
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2 MAJOR BUILDINGS BUILD BY AVEI IN AND AROUND AUROVILLE
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Visitors Centre – 1992 Hassan Fathy International Award for Architecture for the Poor
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Visitors Centre – 1992 Hassan Fathy International Award for Architecture for the Poor13
Visitors Centre – 1992 Hassan Fathy International Award for Architecture for the Poor14
Visitors Centre – 1992 Hassan Fathy International Award for Architecture for the Poor15
Apartments at Vikas Community 16
13 apartments on 4 floors at Vikas CommunityVikas Community was a finalist for the “2000 World Habitat Award”
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Apartments at Vikas Community 18
Section of the third building 19
Kitchen at Vikas community for 50 people – CSEB 20
Water tank and reservoir at Vikas community – CSEB 21
Shakti Vihara School at Pondicherry, for 700 children 22
Shakti Vihara School at Pondicherry, for 700 children 23
Shakti Vihara School at Pondicherry, for 700 children 24
Showroom in Shakti Vihara School at Pondicherry 25
Showroom in Shakti Vihara School at Pondicherry
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Showroom in Shakti Vihara School at Pondicherry 27
Deepanam School near Matrimandir- Stabilised rammed earth walls and CSEB domes - 28
Deepanam School near Matrimandir- Stabilised rammed earth walls and CSEB domes - 29
Deepanam School near Matrimandir- Stabilised rammed earth walls and CSEB vault 10.35 m span, 2.25 m rise - 30
Deepanam School near Matrimandir- Stabilised rammed earth walls and CSEB vault, 10.35 m span - 31
Segmental vault at Deepanam School, completed in 3 weeks with 4 masons10.35 m span, 2.25 m rise, ± 30 tons, built with the Free Spanning technique 32
School and community centre at Marakkanam 33
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1st prize of a national competition
35Tsunami house at Anumandhai
Community centre at Annavali for UNDPCommunity centre at Bommarpalayam for UNDP
Community centre at Kadapakam for UNDP
Community centre at Nadukuppam for UNDP
Disaster resistant built after the tsunami Disaster resistant built after the tsunami
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Moveable & disaster resistant house at Realization Community, built in 64 hours
Cost effective house at Suryanivas community – Stabilised rammed earth & CSEB 38
House at Nalla Farm, Pondicherry – CSEB 39
House at Utility community – CSEB and straw bale 40
House at the Auroville Earth Institute, built with the Free Spanning Technique – CSEB
Equilateral vault, the vault of the European cathedrals
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House at the Auroville Earth Institute – CSEB 42
Chinnakalapet near Auroville – “Hermitage” for a priest 43
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Sri Karneshwar Nataraja Temple near AurovillePointed cloister dome 6 m span and pyramid, built in 6 months
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Sri Karneshwar Nataraja Temple near AurovillePointed cloister dome 6 m span and pyramid, built in 6 months