Auroville Architecture

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Roger Anger


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The community of Auromodele


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Auroville Architecture


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Construction materials used are mainly organic and natural including wood, mud,grass, stabilised earth bricks and fired bricks. Most of these homes have sustainable

energy systems such as solar. Dirk & Chinmayi have built a waste water treatmentsystem and have experimented with levitated water for their clay walls, and Rolf hasrainwater catchment from the roof and a compost toilet.


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AUROVILLE EARTH INSTITUTE


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Vikas Community

The creation of this community was based on a particular spirit,life style and appropriate architectural design. It was related toSri Aurobindos integral yoga and Aurovilles ideal. Theextensive use of environmentally sound materials, appropriatebuilding technologies, (earth and ferrocement), renewableenergies (solar and wind) and ecological water management(watershed harvesting and biological waste water treatment),were the basis of its material implementation. Individualapartments, a few individual houses and common facilities werebuilt.

This project was the first development in Auroville, which usedstabilised earth right from foundations to roof. To date, Vikascommunity still represents the most synthetic holisticdevelopment, which has been materialised in Auroville.


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Solar water heatersPhotovoltaic panels for theelectricity

Surface solar pumps for thegardensSubmersible solar pump andwind pumpBasement floor

Rain water harvesting to aim zero runBiological wastewater treatments

Soil for building was extracted from thePercolation systems to harvest rainwaterWastewater treatment pondReservoirs for garden water


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13 apartments on 4 floors(3 floors above a basement floor)

Section of the third building


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The aim of the project was to build a demonstration projecta. In the use of in steam generation.b. To provide for the nutritional needs of the present community of Auroville

(1700 inhabitants approx :) including the meals at the schools, work placesand for special occasions.c. To be a demonstration project for Appropriate building materials and

technology, Solar Passive Architecture and Waste Water Recycling.

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Auroville as part of its regional development program undertakes several activities


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Auroville as part of its regional development program undertakes several activitiesin partnership with local village bodies like the womens self help groups, youth clubs,adult literacy program, vocational and livelihood skills training and rural healthcentres. Ilangarkal School is the hub for some of these programs with class rooms /workshop spaces / crafts centre / library / dining +kitchen / admin / computertraining and 2 dormitories for residential students.

The campus is designed a

Mandala around astepped pond cumamphitheatre. Thecompressed earth blocksused for the buildings aremade from the excavation of

this pond and roofs of thebuildings are turfs thatcollect rain water andchannel it to this pond.


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Melur Meadows is a gated enclave of 150 cottages on 9 acres betweenCoimbatore and Ooty hill station. The layout of the project follows the naturalcontours of the site which is shaped like bowl like in an amphitheater. There are 4types of dwelling units on the terraces site offering private and public greenspaces with the design of the cottages that allow for maximum outdoor living to re-create the proverbial village.


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The design follows the natural slope of the land with no cut and fills respecting thecoastal dune formation and regulations with the built form scooping out small open to skyinner courts connected by a transparent walkway from the west entry to the eastterraces overlooking the bay.Each space opens to these screened courts allowing visual privacy from the invasivedevelopments around site.


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The walls are exposed bricks in local brick tiles and the intermediate floors are alljack arches in the same bricks. The roof is concrete and thatch for heat insulation.The terraces and verandas are overlooking the sea and courts.

On a narrow site with minimal frontage to the Bay of Bengal on the Coromandel Coast


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On a narrow site with minimal frontage to the Bay of Bengal on the Coromandel Coastnorth of the ex-French colonial town of Pondicherry; hemmed in on 3 sides by randomunplanned structures the challenge was to create a 5 bedroom beach house that would bea retreat to peace and tranquillity.

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