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Abstract

The cause of the essay was my journey to the village Old M’hamid in Morocco at May 2013, because of a workshop of construction with earth. The essay investigates the need of finding an alternative way of living, especially in a period of economic and ecological crisis. In this intense research people create new communities, the Eco villages, where they rethink the way they cultivate the land, the way they build and finally the way they inhabit. In the first part of the essay, there is a research of the basic principles of design, construction and living of a traditional community, the village Old M’hamid in Morocco. And on the second part there is a research of the Eco villages, mostly in Greece. The Eco villages are communities, which take some principles from the traditional way of living, and improve them with recent needs and with modern technics and technology.