Faced with several technological manifestations present nowadays, we live an exhaustive system of consumption and waste. This unconscious behaviour has defined a generation accustomed to an industrial production system.
We have replaced handcrafted work, a reflection of local culture, produced over many generations, with a unitary industrial methodology, carriers of a foreign culture, which simplifies the expression of a local culture's identity.
Portugal draws our attention to an enormous heritage of earthen architecture. The earth construction in Portugal has a heritage that originates from Popular Portuguese Architecture, enriched by local traditions that must be preserved.
As is the case of Aveiro, in Portugal, a city esteemed for a significant adobe building culture. This culture has been gradually weakened and lost by the locals due to the difficulty of keeping the knowledge alive and passing it on to other generations due to new construction standards.
