Despite the ecological renaissance, which placed sustainability at the center of public ethics, it seems that today’s administrative frameworks in Slovenia still limit the spread of regenerative material cultures. The Krater collective, as one of the groups of the production platform BIO27, in cooperation with the studios Atelier LUMA and BC Architects, researched architecture from rammed earth and locally obtained building materials. Materials such as loam, wood or straw bales are imported and therefore too expensive for most, or their use in construction is illegal. Under current legislation, it seems that local ‘material’ landscapes are treated as forbidden vernaculars.

In response to the current environmental crisis, an interdisciplinary group of designers, architects, ecologists, permaculturists and journalists united in Krater poses an important question: Could the abandoned construction pit, which they revived as a collective, become a landscape forum where they would discuss the accessibility of locally obtained materials in Slovenia?