The ‘Bicycle-friendly Area Design Workshop’ which was held in Auroville from 18th May – 17th June brought together 16 young professionals and graduates in architecture and graphic and product de...

Sadhana Forest is about growing trees and growing people. Volunteers from all over the world, as well as Aurovillians, work together in this new reforestation project. They practice an eco-friendly wa...

With a background in carpentry and now architecture, Regina built her own house using mostly sustainable products like mud, coconut fiber, red earth, stone, and bamboo. Are you worried about earthquak...

The Auroville Earth Institute is researching, developing, promoting and transferring earth-based technologies, which are cost and energy effective. These technologies are disseminated through training...

Raw earth as a building material is nearly as old as mankind itself.  It saw it’s renaissance in the middle of the last century. CSEB has been a major tool for the renaissance of earth architecture...

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...

For any regional planning it is important to understand the landscape and the natural forces that are shaping it and water is one of the most important natural force. Base data, especially topography ...

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. ...

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...

An eco-city in the making has to look at and integrate a number of key aspects of a sustainable development. Such key aspects are: environmental restoration, organic agriculture, solar passive archite...