Satprem Maini from the Auroville Earth Institute introduces the participants of the Green Practices Seminar 2010 into the fascinating world of Earthen Architecture and shows example of its application...

When two research centers with extensive knowledge do things together new concepts arises. The  Auroville Bamboo Research Center and the Auroville Earth Institute joined hands to experiment with hous...

Ayyappan, who has worked at the Auroville Earth Institute since 1989 discusses the ways to achieve sustainable building with regards to costs. He talks about the ways in which he has managed to keep t...

Compressed Stabilised Earth Blocks (CEB) can be compressed in many different shapes and sizes. The soil, raw or stabilized, for a compressed earth block is slightly moistened, poured into a steel pres...

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...

Appropriate and sustainable development require first resources management. It is possible to use a natural resource with much respect for our Mother Earth and to develop a habitat in a harmonious and...

Stabilized Compressed Earth Blocks is a construction material formed in a mechanical press. They are made out of a mix of soil, sand and stabilizing agents like lime or cement.      

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...

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...