Auroville, City of dawn is located in state of Tamil Nadu, India, near Pondicherry in South India. .Auroville was founded as a project on experimental basis of the ‘Sri Arbindo Society’ on Wednesday 28 February 1968. The basic idea originated from Mirra Alfassa ‘The Mother ‘who was spiritually related to India. Ma envisaged Auroville as an international township for 50,000 residents on the shape of a flower. Architect Roger Anger refined the planning and designed it in shape of Universe.He placed Matrimandir at the center of this city. Mary Alfassa in her first message regarding the town stated that, "Auroville is meant to be a universal town where men and women of al countries are able to live in peace and progressive harmony, above all creeds, all politics and all nationalities” .

3.  "Auroville wants to be a universal town
where men and women of all countries are
able to live in peace and progressive
harmony above all creeds, all politics and
all nationalities. The purpose of Auroville is
to realise human unity

6.  Roger Anger

15. Auroville Language Laboratory & Tomatis

17. Vérité Integral Learning
Centre

18. ANUPAMA KUNDU RESIDENCE

24. Pavilion of Tibetan Culture

25. The community of Auromodele

36. Private House Douceur Auroville 2004/6
Architect: Pino Marchese & Sheril Castelino
Materials of Construction Details:
Mud plastered compound walls
R.C.C. frame structure and brick walls.
Aerocon comfort tiles on roof slab.
Polycarbonate skylights
Solar pump & energy demand partly met by
photovoltaics

40. Auroville Architecture

45. 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 treatment system and have experimented with levitated water
for their clay walls, and Rolf has rainwater catchment from the roof and a
compost toilet.

46. Berdah house Auromodele, Auroville 2000/1

51.  AUROVILLE EARTH INSTITUTE

57. VIKAS LAY-OUT – 1448 m² carpet area
23 apartments, collective kitchen and toilets for 50 people

58.  Vikas Community
 The creation of this community was based on a particular
spirit, life style and appropriate architectural design. It
was related to Sri Aurobindo’s integral yoga and
Auroville’s ideal. The extensive use of environmentally
sound materials, appropriate building technologies, (earth
and ferrocement), renewable energies (solar and wind)
and ecological water management (watershed harvesting
and biological waste water treatment), were the basis of
its material implementation. Individual apartments, a few
individual houses and common facilities were built.
 This project was the first development in Auroville,
which used stabilised earth right from foundations to
roof. To date, Vikas community still represents the most
synthetic holistic development, which has been
materialised in Auroville.

60. Renewable energy
Solar water heaters
Photovoltaic panels for the
electricity
Surface solar pumps for the
gardens
Submersible solar pump and
wind pump
Basement floor
Percolation system of the third building
Water management
Rain water harvesting to aim zero run
Biological wastewater treatments
Earth management
Soil for building was extracted from the
Percolation systems to harvest rainwater
Wastewater treatment pond
Reservoirs for garden water

61. 13 apartments on 4 floors
(3 floors above a basement
floor)
Section of the third building

69. Auroville Visitors Centre
The core function of the centre is to inform the visitors about the
purpose of Auroville, its spiritual and material aim with exhibitions
and audio-visuals. The complex is also a demonstration centre for
sustainable technologies such as appropriate building material and
technologies, watershed management and landscaping with indigenous
plants, renewable energies, waste water recycling techniques etc.

75. Solar Kitchen
The aim of the project was to build a demonstration project
a. In the use of SOLAR THERMAL ENERGY 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 places and for special occasions.
c. To be a demonstration project for Appropriate building materials
and technology, Solar Passive Architecture and Waste Water
Recycling.
http://www.aurovilledesign.com/solar-
kitchen.html

76. Auroville Kindergarten
The design of the buildings is a reinterpretation of the local vernacular
style in a minimalist architectural language using earth as the
predominant building material from foundation to roof. The spaces
emerge out of a central space to the scale of a child to lessen the
trauma on his/her first experience of spending time away from a non-
domestic environment without an intimate adult around.

79. .

80. Auroville Illangarkal
Auroville as part of its regional development program undertakes several
activities in partnership with local village bodies like the women’s self help
groups, youth clubs, adult literacy program, vocational and livelihood skills
training and rural health centres. Ilangarkal School is the hub for some of
these programs with class rooms / workshop spaces / crafts centre /
library / dining +kitchen / admin / computer training and 2 dormitories’ for
residential students.
The campus is designed a
“Mandala” around a
stepped pond cum
amphitheatre. The
compressed earth blocks
used for the buildings
are made from the
excavation of this pond
and roofs of the
buildings are turfs that
collect rain water and
channel it to this pond.

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

89. The design follows the natural slope of the land with no cut and fills respecting
the coastal dune formation and regulations with the built form scooping out
small open to sky inner courts connected by a transparent walkway from the
west entry to the east terraces overlooking the bay.
Each space opens to these screened courts allowing visual privacy from the
invasive developments around site.

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

91. Nare - Jyoti Beach House
On a narrow site with minimal frontage to the Bay of Bengal on the Coromandel
Coast north of the ex-French colonial town of Pondicherry; hemmed in on 3
sides by random unplanned structures the challenge was to create a 5 bedroom
beach house that would be a “retreat to peace and tranquillity”.