Ecological housing project, Auroville
As promised in one of the previous posts, to keep you all informed about the works done and currently going on site, today, we start with the mezzanine slab which was laid in the third house, i.e. the family unit.
Mezzanine slab in the third house is children’s play area, and to provide families who will be living in the house, a space for leisure activities.… READ MORE...
The regular bloggers of the Sacred Groves blog have been on a break, and as the nature of the people in Sacred Groves is that of a floating one, the blog hasn’t been given a lot of time. But, from today onwards, we revive it.… READ MORE...
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...
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...
Morning: Hello all! Today is a good day to say the least, positive vibes and a particularly reinforced drive towards the project. Yesterday, was the first day of using the new method of mixing cob using the JCB, as Toni, Jed and Rene, looked into other more efficient ways of mixing cob and producing a higher volume.… READ MORE...
While the Sunday at Sacred Groves was a serene and musical night, what has not been mentioned in the earlier blog is the crazy week before the serene Sunday.
A lot happened in the week…
The three houses have been built till the plinth level, and were back filled.… READ MORE...
Cob is a mixture of sandy-sub soil, clay and straw. It is mixed by crushing the particles together by either dancing on it or using the head of a digger. Historically cob might have been mixed by farm animals who would walk up and down on the sand, clay and straw.… READ MORE...
Hello readers, The last article we have showed you how strategically we placed the new pits in the center of the courtyard for producing cob loaves to both projects on site, one of it being the 3 house prototype and the other one love house of new comer.… READ MORE...
After the success of the first Build Free day, the volunteers and the interns of SacredGroves became quite positive about the cob work. The idea of “EVERYONE CAN BUILD” had to be brought up at a large scale. Moreover, the sudden shortage of funds made it impractical to continue with the concreting going on for the 3 houses of the SacredGroves project.… READ MORE...
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...