Auroville Earth Institute (exhibition room)

The office of the Auroville Earth Institute (AVEI) located in Auroville, India includes a room exhibiting their work.

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The AVEI exhibition room includes information on prehistoric adobe earthen structures and modern earthen building techniques including CEBs, their CSEBs in various moulds, information on buildings made by AVEI, posters briefly documenting their methods including for CSEBs, rammed earth, ferrocement channels for roofing, arches, domes, and vaults.

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Foundations

This section shows a cut-away of the rammed earth that forms a foundation for steel-reinforced CSEB columns. One of these columns includes a steel-reinforced concrete section that's add to the column to form a spiral staircase.