Workshops & trade transmission

Heritage only lives if it is transmitted. At Alqatifa, we understand training as a responsibility to prevent the extinction of trades that have sustained our architecture for centuries.

The school of trades

We open our workshop and our sites to teach technique through real practice. We do not teach manual “recipes,” but how to understand the material: when the lime is ready to trowel, how a float sounds when burnishing tadelakt…

We organise intensive sessions where getting your hands dirty is mandatory. It is the only way to understand that natural building is not a trend, but ancestral knowledge. Furthermore, we believe that, to master the technique, theory is essential, so we provide notes and bibliography for those who want to go deeper.