Suhasini Ayer-Guigan presented at the Auroville Green Practices Seminar 2010 on Sustainable Human Habitat. She presents the current conventional methodology of construction and development in todays ...

Mona Doctor-Pingel introduced the participant at the Green Practices Seminar 2010 to Aurovilles' architectural experiments and expertise. º    º    º    º    º     ...

Born in India in 1985, she started architecture school at the age of 17 in Chennai, India, and graduated in 2008. She first came to Auroville in 2006 as an intern to work under the guidance of Andre H...

Born in France in 1958, he moved to the US in 1979 and worked as a general contractor till 1983. He began Architecture school in 1988 and returned to France in 1993 to practice architecture, specializ...

Raw earth for building has been used worldwide for millennia but, during the 20th century, most of the skills of earth builders were lost and building with earth became marginal. The new development w...

Constructing with arches, vaults and domes are ancient building techniques. Those techniques have been applied by many civilizations on this planet and resulted in some of the most spectacular archite...

To create a sustainable Human Settlement means not only to build and design green but to create communities that provide the environment that allows people to flourish in the presence of each other. ...

Passive solar systems use architectural elements in buildings to take advantage of natural cycles of sunlight and other elements in order to reduce the costs of building heating and cooling, without u...

Designing Green Homes needs to integrate a variety of aspects. Some of the Green Design Principle are  to minimize the extraneous, to design for all aspects of climate at all levels, to design for du...

Moving from an teacher centered model of education to a more student centered model educational institutions have to be designed in such ways that they can foster new emerging learning modalities. �...