Mather - madre terra. The project Mathera was born following a journey through the area of Matera itself and the Murgia.

Singular is the relationship that in those places mankind always maintain with nature and vice versa.

The two dimensions live, in fact, a relationship of primitive and ancestral communion, mutually changing in a precarious balance between their respective limits. 

In the past, the conformation of the territory has on one hand allowed men to obtain living spaces, just by digging the calcareous rock.

On other hand, however, it forced them to look for alternative methods to allow them to survive, for example, forcing them to invent techniques to bring water and light into the cave-houses. The systems of canalization and collection of water in tanks and special nailing techniques that allow light to reach the deepest caves are proof of unique bioengineering of its kind.

Every sign on the rock tells a part of the history of this country; from the presence of fossils and molds, to the engravings made to mark the days of wine fermentation, to the numerous frescoes or what remains of them.

The rock is like a book and the signs on it are the writing. History reveals itself through a process of stratification of past and present. The story continues today with the new traces that contemporary mankind leaves on this territory during his intimate cohabitation with the environment. In fact, the exploration of new techniques that allow him to take advantage of the riches of this land to the limit of respect for nature, as in the case of the increasing spread of wind and photovoltaic plants, continues.