Refuge in the Rainforest - Tour Guide Training Center / Héctor Ayarza + Estudio Garúa

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This project arises from a simple question: how to create architecture in the tropics without competing with the forest, but rather learning from it?

Ekadea Studio / AACM - Atelier Architettura Chinello Morandi

Ekadea Studio is a ceramic workshop shaped to envelop: its form is born in shadow and accompanies those who cross its threshold. Curved walls rise from the base and define functions, paths, and boundaries. A wooden structure,  perforated to frame glimpses or solid to accommodate residual spaces, establishes a rhythm of thresholds and shelter.

House of Remarks / fala 171

The new structure enters the existing building on its own terms. A row of thin metal poles carries an I-beam stretching from front to back. When needed, beams are interrupted. These cuts are exposed and celebrated. The new elements are painted in bright red and blue. They occupy positions within the space that are deliberately disruptive, blocking doors, windows and passages. Because of that inconvenience the structure becomes visible. It is an active participant of the space. 

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