Uploaded on 2018-03-23 by Axel Eduardo Solares Ambrosio

This picture depicts mostly local materials. This building is a 3 stores house I built. The walls are made of red bricks brought from a community near the city of Queretaro. The wooden beams are from a local dealer, though i don't know where the material came from. The stereo foam was fabricated in a local company. Finally the concrete was provided by another local company, but there is a high possibility that the materials to produce it were imported. Globalisation is a strong phenomenon that impacts many different cities on different scales. Even when this is a single family house, there's a high possibility that some of the materials were brought from abroad. Still, Queretaro is a medium size city and luckily small scale construction (housing mostly) is still using local materials and supporting smaller economies and communities. Nowadays there are some architects in Queretaro that have started exploring different materials like straw in order to make their constructions more sustainable and take advantage of different techniques and technologies.