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Thesis – The Body A. Introduction Research Proposal condensed- Reason for the study. Why is it important to try and belong to your built environment? Especially today, when we see that lots of efforts are being taken to try and bridge this gap, especially in the cities in India. Where the development has been haphazard, now it’s too late to go backwards and carefully plan, so the relevance in looking at a careful approach from the beginning holds a lot of interest for me. There are different attempts being made in the cities to now bridge the gap but what does it mean to continuously bridge the gap and not do it as an after thought? This is the attempt that I find most prominent in Auroville, and also the most challenging in its development. …show more content…

Auroville belongs to nobody in particular. Auroville belongs to humanity as a whole. But to live in Auroville one must be a willing servitor of the Divine Consciousness. 2. Auroville will be the place of an unending education, of constant progress, and a youth that never ages. 3. Auroville wants to be the bridge between the past and the future. Taking advantage of all discoveries from without and from within, Auroville will boldly spring towards future realisations. 4. Auroville will be a site of material and spiritual researches for a living embodiment of an actual Human Unity. (MBCL xii, pp. 199-200) When the people went home that day, the wind blew over a desolate plateau with only a Banyan Tree, a lotus urn, a scattering of Palmyra, and a vast expanse of eroded red laterite Earth scarred by canyons that run between the villages down to the Bay of Bengal. What was to be the Auroville city area was uninhabited and was used by the surrounding villages to graze cattle. According to the Mother, the ‘first’ Aurovilians were those 25,000 local people living around and within the larger Auroville area of 25 square kilometres. ( The Dawning of Auroville- B, pg 54) 3.3 Dialogues on the Conception of …show more content…

She drew a basic diagram (diagram). As envisioned the town was to be divided into four major zones; namely residential, cultural, international and Industrial zones with a meditation space at the centre. In 1966, Roger Anger, a French Architect from Paris working with the Ashram, also Mother’s Grand son-in law, presented two plans. The first plan was based on a strict orthogonal grid, divided the city into two major sectors, housing and industries facing each other, with the meditation space on an artificial lake, which was surrounded by the international sector on three sides. The second model represented the city in a form of a radial circular plan with the meditation garden at the centre and sectors divided by concentric and radial streets and avenues. The former plan was rejected by Mother and was developed on circular lines. She said ‘it is the open city’ [the ‘Nebula’]. It also resembled the sketch she had given Roger. Whilst, retaining the dynamism of the previous plan, its spiral form radiates from the spiritual centre of the town, with a progressive densification and increase of height towards it. There were no mega-structures in the final master-plan; only a succession of buildings of decreasing height towards the periphery, down to a minimum height. . ( Gulati

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