Sara Serôdio

"It was a very empowering moment to see that with my voice and the guitar, I was self-sufficient."

Sara has two big passions: music and sustainable architecture. While both are a constant source of inspiration and accomplishment to her, there have been times when her focus has been her music career and others where she has been dedicated to architecture, specifically Earthship biotecture.

Sara was born in Porto, Portugal. Influenced by her father, who traveled all over the world and lived many adventures, she decided from a young age that she too wanted to see the world and gather life experiences. She wanted to be a musician, but when she told that to her school teachers, they promptly told her that she would reconsider. She ended up taking a skills test and found out that she was good with architecture, so she decided that she would become a famous architect.

She soon started to travel: when she was 17, she went to Berlin to study Architecture. She also bought a guitar and started to learn on her own, as Music continued to be very important to her.

At age 20, she went alone to Italy, taking her guitar to keep her company. In front of the Pantheon, in Rome, she had the idea to perform right there on the street. She took the guitar out and started to sing. Despite her shyness, a tourist gave her 5 euros. This encouraged her! She continued to play for around 2 hours a day, covering all her trip expenses with her busking money. Back in Berlin, she started to play music in the streets to pay for her studies.

A couple of years later, Sara went to India for a University project. She traveled for one month and saw extreme poverty for the first time, which put her life in perspective: "I was an architect, wanting to be famous and make a lot of money, and here there were people not even having a roof over their heads." Something shifted, leading her to focus on sustainable architecture and humanitarian projects. She then learned about the Earthship Biotecture through the "Garbage Warrior" movie, and she was hooked.

After graduating, she went to the Earthship Academy in the US to learn more about it: "It was the first time I entered an Earthship, I was fascinated. It was not a house but a living organism that could be experienced with the 5 senses. The light, the smell of nature, the textures, the bananas growing in the middle of the desert." She worked for the Earthship Academy for 4 years, designing and building projects in Argentina, the US, Portugal, and humanitarian projects in Fiji and the Philippines. During that time, she also co-founded Earthship Deutschland and Earthship Portugal.

In 2016, she left the Earthship Biotecture to pursue more ecological building Techniques. She spent 6 months in Brazil, learning to build with natural materials only.

In 2017, music became almost nonexistent in her life, and she came to a realization: "I felt that if I never tried to take music seriously, maybe I would regret it." She decided to quit everything and went to Asia to focus on music. Since then, she has developed a successful music career: she created the CocoPilots band and started touring worldwide, playing in festivals, bars, and sometimes back in her original stage, the streets.

In 2020, Sara moved back to Portugal, but she soon became worried: Covid-19 created a music industry crisis. However, she was contacted by Elle-Decoration in Germany to speak about Earthships. She also teamed up with an interior designer to create a new project inspired by the Earthship concept, and they are currently working on the development of their brand.