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...

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...

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...

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...

Ecological construction is a way of building that reduces resource consumption and the impact on ecological systems, and creates products and environments that are beneficial to human health and longe...

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...