As time is passing the amount ofconstruction happeningis growing vigorously. With the rapid growth in construction activities, construction waste and demolition waste is increasing day by day. The best of cement structures last for a maximum of 100 years.This means that a cement building does not last beyond a generation!… READ MORE...
Recent achievements at Sacred Groves
It has been some time since the latest blog post about Sacred Groves. This does not mean that nothing is happening, on the contrary. Many things are developing on various levels. This posting is a general update about the current status of Sacred Groves.… READ MORE...
Houses for a healthy and happy life, part 2
There is growing concern about the health effects of electromagnetic radiation. Much research is being done and evidence is piling up. One thing that becomes clearer, while evaluating all of the scientific research in this field, is that we know very little about the electromagnetic processes happening in our body, and in that of all other life forms on earth.… READ MORE...
Houses for a healthy and happy life, part 1.
Beside from being an ecological and low cost housing project, Sacred Groves is a place worth living. During the design and the construction of the houses a lot of attention is given on the health and well being of its future inhabitants.… READ MORE...
Art On The Wall
After a whole lot of cob work and wall work, colors were scattered at sacred groves by our own artist Enrico, a volunteer from Italy. His job was to make the site more colorful and fix the loose ends. Painting section was given to him under which he had to take hold of mainly two projects which are painting the wall of the toilet and painting the container.… READ MORE...
Humble Peter and his PVC Dome
Architects in Auroville believe in working together and encourage each and every idea to make the place better. Peter Matthias Anderschitz, an architect from Berlin who has been in Auroville since 1971 needed some help from the SacredGroves volunteers. A group of eight volunteers from SacredGroves were present at the Savitri Bhavan campus to help him to lift and align an 8 meters in diameter geodesic dome made up of PVC pipes.… READ MORE...
A Good Shelter Needs a Good Roof
Roof of a house is the most crucial structural element of the entire building. As a person needs a cap to protect himself from sun and rain, even a building needs a roof structure to protect its constituents from harsh Glary sun in the afternoons and heavy unpredictable rains in the monsoons.… READ MORE...
Solar chimney – Such a breather!
SacredGroves believes in construction of a space with minimum investments. Creating spaces by reusing materials is one of the ways to do it. Shipping containers turned out to be a very good option to create spaces. The tool room of the site is one of the spaces created using a shipping container.… READ MORE...
The Sacred Dorm
With more people coming to work at SacredGroves, our community felt the need for a place to house its volunteers on site. A few months ago, such a place was realized in the form of a two-storey pointy-roofed wooden structure sitting cozily in the forest edge, partly hidden by the foliage around it.… READ MORE...
Another Wonder Material Discovered!
Reuse, reduce and recycle have been the most efficient ways for waste reduction, waste management and getting a product with minimum investments. Tetrapacks, having the property of water resistance, are made use of in large quantities here at SacredGroves. The empty used tetrapacks are obtained from the segregated waste block from the Pour Tous store at Solar Kitchen.… READ MORE...