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    The document provides a site plan and details for the Auroville Earth Institute in India. It includes a list of 27 buildings and structures with their purposes and floor areas. The main construction techniques used are rammed earth walls stabilized with small amounts of cement or lime and a variety of compressed stabilized earth blocks. Vaults, arches, and roofs are constructed using these earth blocks. The site includes administrative offices, a library, laboratories, workshops, dormitories, and other facilities to support research and training in earth-based construction techniques.

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    The document provides a site plan and details for the Auroville Earth Institute in India. It includes a list of 27 buildings and structures with their purposes and floor areas. The main construction techniques used are rammed earth walls stabilized with small amounts of cement or lime and a variety of compressed stabilized earth blocks. Vaults, arches, and roofs are constructed using these earth blocks. The site includes administrative offices, a library, laboratories, workshops, dormitories, and other facilities to support research and training in earth-based construction techniques.

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    The document provides a site plan and details for the Auroville Earth Institute in India. It includes a list of 27 buildings and structures with their purposes and floor areas. The main construction techniques used are rammed earth walls stabilized with small amounts of cement or lime and a variety of compressed stabilized earth blocks. Vaults, arches, and roofs are constructed using these earth blocks. The site includes administrative offices, a library, laboratories, workshops, dormitories, and other facilities to support research and training in earth-based construction techniques.

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    Auroville

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    Vignesh Ganesan
    The document provides a site plan and details for the Auroville Earth Institute in India. It includes a list of 27 buildings and structures with their purposes and floor areas. The main construction techniques used are rammed earth walls stabilized with small amounts of cement or lime and a variety of compressed stabilized earth blocks. Vaults, arches, and roofs are constructed using these earth blocks. The site includes administrative offices, a library, laboratories, workshops, dormitories, and other facilities to support research and training in earth-based construction techniques.

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    AUROVILLE EARTH INSTITUTE

    INTRODUCTION

    PLAN

    BUILDING Main office Library Conference hall Exhibition room Laboratory Workshop Trainees storeroom Training shed 1 Training shed 2 Open courtyard Blockyard Dormitory for men Dormitory for men Dormitory for women Trainees kitchen Student guesthouse Toilets Precasting shed Various premises Care takers quarter

    PURPOSE Administration of the unit and drafting room for the students. Library for books, slides, videos, photos. Lectures with or without slide show and video. Study room for the students. Presentation of soil samples, earth based technologies, etc. For soil analysis. Maintenance of the equipment. Small equipment for the training courses. Practical exercises for masonry. Practical exercises for masonry. Circulation and practical exercises. Production of CSEB. For 10 men. For 15 men. For 5 women. Common hall and kitchen for the trainees. Room for long term students Toilets for the Unit and the trainees boarding. For casting pieces for researches or building sites. Various infrastructure, access to various buildings, staircases, galleries, etc. House of Satprem TOTAL CARPET AREA

    AREA (m2) 60 25 48 59 26 13 14 52 46 50 75 30 50 18 39 23 10 76 45 71 830

    Construction technique used :


    This research aims to make extensive use of raw earth as the main building material, thereby using a local resource, which can help developing technologies that are energy saving, eco-friendly and sustainable. The main research and development is focussed on minimising the use of steel, cement and reinforced cement concrete (RCC). Most of the technologies developed are mastered and the present research is focussed on alternative stabilizers to cement and alternative waterproofing with stabilized earth, composed of soil, sand, cement, lime, and alum.

    The following technologies have been mastered :


    Stabilised rammed earth foundations with 5 % cement Stabilised rammed earth walls with 5 % cement, rammed manually Composite plinth step plinth with CSEB, plinth beam with reinforced concrete cast in U shaped CSEB Composite columns Round hollow CSEB with reinforced cement concrete Composite beams and lintels U shaped CSEB with reinforced cement concrete Wide variety of compressed stabilised earth blocks (17 moulds are presently available for producing about 75 different types of blocks) Various vaults with compressed stabilised earth blocks Stabilized earth mortars and plasters

    ARCHES & VAULTS

    Bucket pointed arch

    Catenary arch, 2 m span,2 m rise. Segmental vault, 10.35 m span

    Bulls eye

    Egyptian vault, 5 m span, 3.55 m rise, 9 m long

    Catenary vault for the training centre of the Earth Institute

    Segmental vault, 10.35m span, 2.25 m rise.

    Equilateral pointed vault, 34 cm at the base up to 7 cm at the apex.

    Equilateral groined vault

    Bucket pointed vault

    Office of earth insttitute

    Catenary vault for the training centre of the Earth Institute

    Precasting shed with dormitory

    House of Satprem Mani

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