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VILLAGE FOR PEACE
program/ community infrastructure
yoga & meditation
children's education & arts
training offices
client/ charitable trust
location/ eastern India
construction/ 2009, pending funding
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This peace village is designed as a
sustainable organism for children and
their families. Being in one of the
hottest regions on the globe, we've
implemented rigid passive solar strategies
with local materials, hydro farming for
water supply, and solar cell use for
providing the village's energy supply.
The essence of the design integrates basic
elements of sustainable architecture,
community, and creativity. Sense of gathering
in the buildings and on the site is initiated
with the feature spaces [peace garden,
reflecting pool, courtyards] which nurtures
'community'. Creativity stimulates individual
thinking for the children. The buildings, made
of simple packed mud construction, provide
blank canvases for mural making... and 'peace'
flags in the form of fabric shading around
the trellis structures are an environmental art
installation.
Note: reproduction/ downloading of any
images on this site is unlawful
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