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Training Centre of the Auroville Earth Institute |
Welcome to Earth Architecture!
Our Mother Earth gives us a wonderful
building material, which should be used with awareness, sensitivity, and with
much respect and gratitude. The Auroville Earth Institute is acting for this
recognition. Earth is
Alchemy
Ibn Yamin, Sufi
poet I don't see the Earth as a formless material without
consciousness, but as Spirit consciously disguised as matter. |
This data Website with 1697 photos and illustrations aims
to bringing awareness about earth architecture and technologies, and it covers
worldwide examples from past to present. May this site invite you to know more
about the wonderful possibilities of the earth as a building material!
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40 % of the world population lives in earthen dwellings
25 % of the world population does not have access to decent housing
(Statistics from UNCHS)
17 % of the "world cultural heritage sites" is built with earth
25 % of the "world heritage sites in danger" is built with earth
14 % of the "hundred most endangered world heritage sites" is built with earth
(Statistics from UNESCO)
For millennia men proved that they could live in
a sustainable way. They lived in harmony with nature. They used it and still
respected it. People used earth as a raw material with a lot of sensibility. The
"modern" fashion of the 20th century created a break with the
millennia old developments. Our Mother Earth has been spoilt and abused. The
21st century should find again the harmonious link between man,
nature and spirit.
At the dawn of this new millennium, our Mother Earth
gave us two challenges: How to build with earth on a large scale, while
respecting Nature? How to realize architecture full of light, suppleness,
simplicity, imagination and beauty with a heavy and formless mud?
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The
Auroville Earth Institute, which was previously named the Auroville Building
Centre/Earth Unit, attempts to fulfil these goals. The Auroville Earth Institute has government approval for the use of compressed stabilised earth blocks especially for disaster resistance. | 
Vaults of the
Ramasseum ~ 1300 BC - Egypt
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Apartments on four floors at Vikas -
Auroville | © Humanity as a whole, No rights reserved!
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Please note that this information should be used with a lot of respect for Nature and it should aim sustainable development.
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