The idea to establish Auroville started to coalesce around end-1964/beginning-1965, and the Mother asked prominent French architect Roger Anger to design the township for her in March 1965. While the famous model of the Galaxy Plan was ready by Auroville’s inauguration day on February 28th 1968 and displayed to the public during the ceremony, there were other earlier designs for the township prepared by Anger and his team. One of these designs, known as the Nebula Plan and based on the Mother’s symbol, was included in the first brochure for Auroville which was published sometime in 1966.
At this time, the name Matrimandir had been given to the “Pavilion of the Mother” at the center of the township, but the design of Matrimandir as we know it now had not been initiated. That would begin to happen in early-1970. The Nebula Plan established the round form for the township with roads radiating from the center. These features would be developed further and ultimately evolve into the Galaxy Plan.
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[…] continue with our look at early Auroville brochures. After 1966’s “Nebula” brochure and 1967’s “Macrostructure” brochure, in April 1968, a few weeks after […]
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[…] 1965, he (and his team) first came up with the Nebula Plan in March 1966, which was printed in the 1966 brochure. This was the first brochure published on Auroville. Then in early-1967 he developed the […]
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