Uploaded on 2017-08-03 by Ana Paula Prado

In this picture taken by me in mid June, 2017, we can see a myriad of construction materials, although all buildings look unfinished. Some inferences: 1. The amount of money people have is not enough to buy materials. They improvise with all sorts of rests or with materials which are not proper for that use. Although people can almost never put a finishing on the buildings, because they have a high cost, nor construct them with perfect techniques and norms, they stand longer then natural materials. 2. Although the constructions are very badly built, it is true that they last much longer then unindustrialized materials. Industrialized materials are burned in very high temperature, and therefore are harder and more resistant in many ways; they involved in artificial resigns, that make them resistant to temperatures, waters and weather changes. Therefore, houses have not much more then 3 or 4 stores. 3. People do not relate with their environment as a source of means of living, but as a bare support for a rough settlement. Therefore, no one plants, nor thinks of the land as a source of loam, that they could use in forms to build up bricks for they houses. 4. Vernacular construction techniques are lost. When families move from their land into bigger cities, the traditional knowledge stays in their original places. Is a deterritorialization and an identity lost. 5. The form in architecture accompanies the material. As urban – and many times illegal - lots are much smaller than the original land in which these migrants where raised at, their construction techniques and known architectural form cannot be reproduced in dense cities. They loose their identity and building ways. 6. Reuse of generalized materials Globalized materials are diverse. With the reuse as proposed, without esthetic worries, any scrap can be attached to a construction and be part of a wall, until bricks come, for example. It is not an integration of industry with population, but an adaptation of this to the purposes of that.