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Space Concept and Design

Last School relocated in July 2014 to its permanent home in the Cultural Zone within Auroville. 

The Last School’s design purpose is to bring the people and the activities close enough to walk and live in a lively environment.

Each and every wall and space can be used for various purposes for display, conducting workshops and other educational purposes.

The Auroville education is based on the concept of Free Process, which allows the students to have a different approach to the school curriculum and school structure and programs to be diverse and supple. Last School is designed for students to learn art, craft and sculpture, along with natural learning.

The walls are painted in a neutral colour and allow students to display the art and craft works that become art insulation and also help with students’ engagement. All classrooms have single concrete ceilings, walls are not directly touching the roof, and they are connected with only columns, this is because of making the room bright with natural lighting. The classrooms are separated with seating space that also connects the students. Integrating the landscape into the structure is a clever concept for encouraging calming corridors. The floor is made of a kotta stone finish, which gives a raw natural feel and also darkens a lot of windows and small slits, giving a fresh environment and helping the children’s classes use the ideas of Mother and Sri Aurobindo.

The Last School’s new building was designed by David Nightingale and Ganesh Bala Associate, which was phase 2 of the Last School designed by Roger Anger. The school is located in the cultural centre of Auroville. Designing the school with an open plan makes the spaces calm and more connected to the site landscape.

The entrance is welcoming, and the light ramp connects directly to the 2 story cylindrical room used as a meeting space and has small cube windows to allow natural light. All interconnected rooms‌ with a small void space and a corridor with a lot of seating spaces.

“No one ought to speak of the Divine unless he has had experience of the Divine.
Get experience of the Divine, then alone will you have the right to speak of it.


The objective study of religions will be part of the historical study of human consciousness. Religions make up part of the history of mankind and it is in this guise that they will be studied at Auroville – not as beliefs to which one ought to or ought not to adhere, but as part of a process in the development of human consciousness which should lead man towards his superior realization.” 

~ The Mother

Design of Last School

The Last School’s new building was designed by David Nightingale and Ganesh Bala Associate, which was phase 2 of the last school designed by Roger Anger. The school is located in the cultural centre of Auroville. Designing the school with an open plan makes the spaces calm and more connected to the site landscape. Read more – Article on re-thinkingfuture.com

PASSAGE
A Last School Installation
at the Pyramids
(2009)

MIRAGE
A Last School Installation
in the Cultural Zone
(2018)

Auroville – A Dream of the Divine
(2003)

Auroville 
A Dream of the Divine

A documentary, produced by Auroville Press in 2003

“There should be somewhere on earth a place which no nation can claim as its own, where all human beings of good will…”