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Radhika EarthInstitute
Radhika EarthInstitute
EARTHEN ARCHITECTURE IN
AUROVILLE
1. AUROVILLE’S INTRODUCTION
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1 AUROVILLE’S INTRODUCTION
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1. AUROVILLE’S INTRODUCTION
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1. AUROVILLE’S INTRODUCTION
AUROVILLE CHARTER
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 1968
The Mother
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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
1. AUROVILLE’S INTRODUCTION
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2 MAJOR BUILDINGS BUILD BY AVEI IN AND AROUND
AUROVILLE
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2. MAJOR BUILDINGS BUILT BY AVEI IN AND AROUND AUROVILLE
Visitors Centre – 1992 Hassan Fathy International Award for Architecture for the Poor12
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 Community
Vikas 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 masons
10.35 m span, 2.25 m rise, ± 30 tons, built with the Free Spanning technique 32
School and community centre at Marakkanam 33
Community centre at Kilianur 34
1st prize of a national competition
Tsunami house at Anumandhai 35
Disaster resistant built after the tsunami Disaster resistant built after the tsunami
Community centre at Bommarpalayam for Community centre at Annavali for UNDP
UNDP
House at the Auroville Earth Institute, built with the Free Spanning Technique – CSEB41
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 Auroville
Pointed cloister dome 6 m span and pyramid, built in 6 months
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Sri Karneshwar Nataraja Temple near Auroville
Pointed cloister dome 6 m span and pyramid, built in 6 months
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Sri Karneshwar Nataraja
Temple 47
Realization Housing project with 17
apartments
- CSEB and stabilised earth from foundations to
-roof
Rainwater harvesting
- Wastewater biological system
- Earth tunnel for natural air conditioning
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Realization – 5 Apartments completed 50
Realization – 8 Apartments completed 51
3 DIVERSITY OF EARTHEN BUILDINGS
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2.1 HOUSES