EARTH IN AUROVILLE
- From the early days of Auroville, in the 1970’s, different experiments have been made with earth building, with mixed results. The creation of the former Auroville Building Centre/Earth Unit in 1989, and the construction of the Visitors’ Centre, started a new era in earthen architecture.This Visitors’ Centre of 1200 m² was granted the “Hassan Fathy Award for Architecture for the Poor” in 1992. Built of compressed stabilised earth blocks, it demonstrated the potential of stabilised earth as a quality building material.Since then, the value of earth as a building material has been acknowledged for its economic advantage, as well as its comfort and quality, which promotes indigenous and sustainable development. Today, Auroville can show a wide variety of earthen projects: public buildings, schools, apartments and individual houses.Most of the projects...............................Read More!
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2 comments:
auroville is said to be the crucible of research, and they certainly have come up with many seminal solutions that require great ingenuity .. patience and efforts , but having visited auroville and places around it .. i dont quite feel that the ideas in a lab have reached the masses .. even after 30 years... i hope they get a a faster hold ....
... and u have putup a good site here ..i have a feeling that i will visit it often ...but ur blog is like one stop shop to various links ..... wherez ur voice ?
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