12 May 2012

Looking around Auroville. That’s what I am doing these days.

Color ful benches at AV papers

We went to av papers. It was so good to see the paper making in this unit. to see the process here which takes the paper to a very finished level and the products so innovative, was very inspiring.

Then we went to the Last School. The story behind its name is that when Auroville started the beginning, a lot architects came. Roger Anger, an architect designed and made a school. The mother did not want any schools in Auroville as she didn’t want children to go school to learn but learn from their sorroundings. Yet it was built. Then this school was made, and then it was decided that there would be no more schools, so it was the last school.

The architecture is breathtaking, I almost gasped when I had the first view of the school from a distance between the trees. I wished I had learnt and played here. It almost bought the child in all of us. We found ourselves to be jumping and running around and exploring the space. Those eleptical windows and the curved walls, the wounded paths and the lovely textures, the contrast between red and white and the shadows that fell, it all came together to make a beautiful place. It was a very good experience.