Tag: huts
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Huts at Fraternity
While looking at photos of old keet huts for the past few posts, we found some evocative photos from 1972 of a pyramidal hut located at Fraternity, and some nearby huts. In the last photo we can see cultivated lands around the Auroville lands. Enjoy!
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Aspiration View
Here in Auroville we frequently hear tell the memory revisited of being able to see the sea from Aspiration in decades past. Since the past few posts have been on the topic of Aspiration, we thought we’d post this image below, in which are visible the sea on the horizon, and a few aspiration huts…
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A Hut at Hope
As we at the Archives were posting about pakka buildings at Aspiration and the Aspiration huts from the late-1960s and early-1970s, we were reminded by Anupama Kundoo that an earlier prototype of these huts was designed and built by Roger Anger and his team at Hope, before the Aspiration huts started to be built. So…
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Photos of Aspiration Huts by Indra Poddar
Before and immediately after Auroville’s inauguration ceremony in February 1968, people coming to live in Auroville were staying at locations such as Forecomers, Promesse, Hope and Nursery Pumphouse. From 1969 onwards, huts started to be constructed at Aspiration, which soon became the largest community in Auroville. Here the well known (world famous in Auroville) huts…
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