Architecture in AV

Werner's house in Prayatna community

This retrospective exhibition celebrates and makes you experience Werner’s considerable work.
Both in Germany and in his time in Auroville.

We tried to capture and protect for posterity the feeling that Werner was aiming to create with his designs by making videos and stills that evoke the totality of his designs and wish to immerse you in the buildings, their plans, pictures and videos.

: before the installation of the pond with black stone fountain upstairs is the master bedroom with exit to the terrace area on top of the collonade

: view from bar area to main entrance sliding doors, hallway to office room and dining area with sculpture

: view from office to kitchen/bar area with mirror wall, horizontal rounded wall openings and doorway, rounded tiling and MDF plinths

: metal circles on the triangular mesh windows – with some of the kitchen grill and metals circles still missing… before the installation of the black mesh screens on the first floor – the buildings were in constant evolution poured earth bricks

: in daylight

: this solar light works completely on the integrated solar panels

: showing that the landscaped park area forms an integral part of the design

: signature wall base flaring

: upstairs wall continuing in the expo room’s window

: and the adjoining fountain

: with fountain (not functional)

: pond area circular cement slabs on the floor triangles have the same proportions as the roofs

: returning door details integrated furniture ‘dripping’ ceiling lights

: ceiling lights triangular windows circular carpets sculpture

Aurodesign office & expo in Prayatna

Werner’s architecture office from where Prayatna and the other projects were planned and executed was located in Prayatna as well.

It contained an office, a common kitchen, store room, and an expo room annex ping-pong room.

Art, beauty and style were present everywhere.

Two studios were built on top of the office and connected by a fly-over. A common space for inhabitants to use since the private space was kept deliberately small.

One studio was meant for the manager of Aurodesign and one for the artist in residence who would spend months preparing projects to be exhibited in the expo room.

We finished the spaces as much as possible with the materials that were present on site

and the money that Werner left us gracefully

by his brother Rainer and his sister Erika