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Auro Ville

Auroville is an experimental township in Tamil Nadu, India, founded in 1968 to promote human unity among diverse populations. The township is designed with sustainable technologies, including solar and wind energy, and features various zones for residential, industrial, and cultural purposes. Auroville emphasizes sustainable design using compressed stabilized earth blocks (CSEB) and aims to create a harmonious living environment for up to 50,000 residents.

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Auro Ville

Auroville is an experimental township in Tamil Nadu, India, founded in 1968 to promote human unity among diverse populations. The township is designed with sustainable technologies, including solar and wind energy, and features various zones for residential, industrial, and cultural purposes. Auroville emphasizes sustainable design using compressed stabilized earth blocks (CSEB) and aims to create a harmonious living environment for up to 50,000 residents.

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AUROVILLE

NAME – RAO UMAR


SAP – 1000014862
SUBJECT – URBAN DESIGN
"Experimental" township in Viluppuram district in the state of
TamilNadu, India, near Pondicherry in South India. Auroville was
founded as a project of the Sri Aurobindo Society founded
in1968 by Mirra Alfassa (also known as "The Mother").•
Designed by architect Roger Anger.• As stated in Alfassa's first
public message about the township, "Auroville 1s meant to be a
universal town where men and women of all countries are able
to live in peace and progressive harmony, above all creeds, all
politics and all nationalities.
The purpose of Auroville is to realize human unity.“

- Auroville is a universal township in the making for a population of


up to 50,000 people from around the world.• Auroville is located in
south India ,in the State of Tamil Nadu (some parts are in the State
of Pondicherry), a few kilometers inland from the Coromandel Coast,
approx 160 kms south of Chennai (previously Madras) and 10 kms
north of the town of Pondicherry.• The concept of Auroville - an
ideal township devoted to an experiment in human unity. The
concept was then put before the Govt. of India, who gave their
backing and took it to the General Assembly of UNESCO.
Details about Auroville

• EXISTING LAND USE:

~ 40% is Residential.~ Public spaces about 28%


~ Commercial, manufacturing and other economic activities constitute about 12%
~ About 13% IS under roads and streets serving both urban and non-urban uses.

• Developed areas :

~ Village settlements : Six village settlements within the Auroville township area.
~ Auroville Communities: At present there are 95 Auroville residential communities.
~ The Commercial area in the Township includes refall services.
~ The Manufacturing use includes about 100 large and small manufacturing and
processing Units.
Public and Semi-Public uses include amenifies such as schools, health facilities,
services and utilities.
Administrative and Institutional uses include centre (Bharat Nivas) & Auroville
Foundation offices.
~ Recreational uses : few playgrounds, centre field.
CITY PLAN
The whole city is of 1.25 km radius. Mainly divided in following
six regions:

1 Industrial ZONE

2 International Zone

3 CULTURAL ZONE

4 PEACE ZONE

5. Residential Zone

6. GREEN BELT
Sustainable Technology

Within Aurovile, several research Institutes are continuously working on innovative


processes to reduce energy and water use by modifying and integrating new and
existing technologies.

• Solar Technology solar technology is widely used within the various communities SOLAR PANELS
and is the largest renewable source of energy in Auroville. the most common
application of solar technology is for water pumping, water heating, street lighting,
and in some cases electricity generation.

• Solar Electricity: some communities and buildings run completely on electricity


produced by photovoltaic (P) panels. Ine PV systems used within Aurovile are custom
designed by Aurovillian groups, and integrate inverter and battery storage systems
for cloudy and rainy days. Currently, there are 400 houses running solely on solar
electricity within Auroville. SOLAR BOWL

• Electric Vehicle (EV) Technology To reduce their carbon footprint, and


create healthier natural environment, Auroville is looking to expand the
use of electric vehicles (small electric cars, electric bicycles and electric
motorcycles).There are various working components to successfully
integrating electric vehicles into the community.
Solar Water Pumping and Heaters

Over 80% of the solar technology in Auroville is used for water


pumping and heating. Many of the operations for the waste water
systems, and well/boreholes rely on this form of energy to move the
water. Aurovillian solar service and solution experts have formulated
simple and low maintenance pumping and heat ng systems.

SOLAR WATER HEATER


Wastewater Technology

The Centre for Scientific Research (CR) has applied innovative


methods to customize the available wastewater technologies to fit
the various Auroville community needs. The systems consist of
underground containment and pre-filtration fanks, and overhead
oxygenating and polishing ponds. For commercial and urban spaces
that have little space for ponds, the institute has designed a
cylindrical vortex system which fakes advantage of centrifugal and
centripetal forces to filter and oxygenate the water. The resulting
'gray water from the system may then be reinserted into the water
table, or used for local irrigation purposes.
• Wind Technology
Windmills for pumping water have been designed and built in Auroville since
the early pioneering days. One of the first designs was the Cretan windmill,
made of wood and cloth-salls.

The design has evolved from the practical experience of Aurovilians gained in
operating windmills over the last two decades. The AV55 can now be used for
pumping water from bore wells as deep as 100m as well as for low-Lift high-
volume output from open wells.

Today, there are more than 30 windmills of various designs spread over the
Auroville plateau for pumping water. AWS = AUROVILEE WIND SYSTEM

Since Auroville does not always get the high velocity winds that prevall further
south, the electric power generation through wind has been highly hampered.
Two wind generators, which under optimum wind conditions are capable of
generating 4kW of power, are part of a hybrid solar and wind energy system
that is being tested at the Visitors centre. However, the actual output we are
able to get in Auroville Is much lower.
Sustainable Design
Looking at design from a sustainable angle involves incorporating and utilizing the
natural environment into planning and design. Architects, planners and product
designers within Auroville have centralized the core of their innovations around
sustainable design. Auroville shows a wide variety of earthen projects: public buildings,
schools, apartments and individual houses.
Most of the projects are built with compressed stabilised earth blocks (CSEB), as
this technology benefits of half a century of research and development worldwide. in
Auroville, these blocks present many advantages compared to fired bricks: CSEB BRICKS

Walls made of CSEB are always cheaper than fired bricks.


The embodied energy is 15 times less than the bricks fired in the village.
The strength of these blocks is most of the time higher than the local fired bricks.

Stabilised rammed earth used for walls is slowly getting known and a few projects
already implemented this technique.
What are CSEB?
1CSEB (Compressed stabilized Earth Block) are a mix ot soll, sand, a stabilizer
(often 5% of cement), and water.
2They are compressed in a press (manually or motorised) and cured during28 days.
3They are not fired!!!
4They can reach a dry compressive strength of 9 MPa.
A Strong Material

• CSEB blocks are strong:


Average dry crushing strength of .3 MPa (up to 9 MPa in
Auroville).
Wet crushing strength of 3 to 4 MPa (after 24 hours of
immersion)

Cost Effective
• CSEB are generally cheaper than tired bricks.
• No plaster is needed in most or cases.
• Less mortar are required and its cheaper.
• 3% Ot waste against 10% for country fired brick.
• Cost comparison per m7 of CSEB and fired brick wall
(Auroville, July 2012

• CEB are also called as E Blocks, as Eco-friendly, Economical, Earth Block


.• Top soil is removed and only deeper soil is extracted.
• CSEB are the major fool for the renaissance of earth architecture worldwide.
• It is today the earth technology which is used the most worldwide.
• The Auram Press 3000 can produce about 80 types of blocks with 18 moulds
Stabilised Rammed Earth

In Auroville, the earth is rammed by hand. Until 1994, Auroville


had only one house made of raw rammed earth. Stabilised
rammed earth was promoted since 1995, after the construction
of Mirramukhi School (presently named School Deepanam).
Stabilised rammed earth is getting slowly more known and
presents the advantage of being cheaper than compressed
stabilised earth blocks
Digging the trench and filing the Frame

Adding 200L of sand in 1 bag of cem ramming Lifting the frame

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