The USA Pavilion starts off
Thirty two students - "pasty faced white
kids" (as one teaching assistant called them) arrived January
4th, 2002, to begin their exciting, often bewildering journey in
Auroville. Including professors and teaching assistants, the group
of 42 set the goal of designing and building the first structure on
the U.S. Pavilion site of the International Zone.
American students build a student guesthouse
Working almost non-stop with a team of Tamil
masons and carpenters, the group of very able-bodied college
students who came from such diverse departments as 'School of
Architecture', 'Landscape Design' and 'Forestry Resources' succeeded
in creating an innovative, sophisticated and playful structure which
should be finished in July.
This 'U.S. Student Guest House' has 4 rooms with a total of 12 beds
and the latest in
and a breeze catching 'super roof' which will
keep the whole structure super cool and shaded.
 
Thanks!
Many thanks to Mario, Kartik and his team; the
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON DESIGN/BUILD PROGRAM and AVI-USA for making
this (financially) possible - and thanks to the 'USA Pavilion
Organising Team of 7' for all their hard work here and there.
See for further info and photos:
www.aviusa.org/projects_usapavilion.html
http://courses.washington.edu/uwbasic/projects/dbindia/index.html
www.geoeducation.org
Coordinator Jill
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