Ligno Tiny Home
Ligno Tiny Home is a tiny house manufacturer based in Colos, Odemira, that designs and builds compact homes on trailers or fixed bases.
Eco-building Techniques
Builders and teachers working with earth, straw, lime and timber across Portugal. Learn the techniques at a workshop or hire the people who master them.
Projects in this focus
Cânhamor
Cânhamor is a Portuguese company based in Garvão, in the municipality of Ourique, which produces ECOblocos® — the only complete carbon-negat…
The Women's Natural Building Collective
The Women's Natural Building Collective (WNBC) is a group of experienced women natural builders based in the Odemira district of Southern Po…
Eco-building techniques in Portugal
Earth, straw, lime and timber are not new here, most old Portuguese village houses are some combination of stone, earth mortar and lime render. What is new is doing it deliberately, to modern standards, and getting it signed off.
The builders and teachers listed under this focus work in those materials across the country, and some teach as well as build. That matters, because the constraint on natural building in Portugal is rarely the material and usually the availability of someone who knows how to use it.
Workshops are the normal entry point, and several run over a weekend. The natural materials, superadobe and cob, and renovation and retrofitting focuses cover the specific methods. Dated activities from these projects are listed in our events calendar.