Uploaded on 2014-10-24 by IlektraPap

[1]: https://edxuploads.s3.amazonaws.com/14141439911388261.jpg The picture is taken by an area named Petralona, in Athens. There are some old houses left forming a neighborhood next to Philopappou Hill. Even though these house had their own character in the past, the trends of a globalized building economy affected them. The wooden windows have been replaced by imported aluminium frames. This is something that happened to plenty of Athenian residencies and blocks of flats and it is connected with the growth of mold in the interior of the houses. Aluminium frames don't let any of the air inside the building in contrary with the wooden ones. You can also detect a morphological paradox. While in Athens the globalized modernism trend was completely adopted and as a result so did cement terraces (even in many cases where it was unpractical), the tiles are not rejected as an decoration element by the owners.