Sistema de monitoramento de Páramo - 14ᵃ Bienal Internacional de Arquitetura de São Paulo

Project implementation: Ecuador
Project development: Ecuador

Community water infrastructure to improve and strengthen the existing water network. A system of spaces for social interaction, appreciation, environmental care, and the transmission of knowledge about water protection. Shelters, weather stations for environmental monitoring, and meeting spaces.

La Chimba is located in the ancestral territory of the Kayambi tribe in northern Ecuador, near the Cayambe volcano. It's located in one of Ecuador's most important ecosystems, the Paramo, which boasts significant biodiversity and the territory's most important water sources.

La Chimba, with over a hundred years of historical resistance through self-management and self-organization, protects the territory and its water resources from various threats. Strengthening its infrastructure and reinforcing its social character is essential for its subsistence and future growth.

Community water infrastructure creates spaces to monitor, care for, and educate about the páramo territory, which provides water sources for life. In this way, the community values the work done in the past and strengthens processes to maintain the system in the future.

This architectural proposal is responsible for the site and the people of the community, who construct the buildings for collective use on participatory construction days called "Mingas" (mutirao), which encourage local work and knowledge exchange. The intention is to create spaces for access, meeting, and shelter through local techniques present in the community's buildings and terraces that, by their shape as retaining walls on slopes, integrate into the natural landscape, creating an intervention respectful of the páramo ecosystem.

Participate in the program of debates, workshops and associated activities!

TODAY (10.10)

2:30 pm – table Risk-Free Periphery in the Context of Climate Change

4pm – table Knowing to Transform: Community Climate Risk Reduction and Adaptation Plans

6:30 pm – table Inclusive Adaptation: Nature-Based Solutions in the Peripheries

9am – Drawing Workshop: Oscar Niemeyer's Architecture in Ibirapuera Park and the Climate Challenge

IN THE NEXT DAYS (11 to 14.10)

ATTENTION the table Palmas: For 36 years, the ecological capital of Tocantins which would be held on 10/11 | 7pm was canceled.

11.10 and 12.10 | 9am – workshop Inventa(rio) Fronteiras: Playing for Multispecies Cities

11.10 | 10am – workshop Elémenterre teaching bag

11.10 | 11am – table Learning to inhabit the Anthropocene: the crisis of architecture

11.10 | 2pm – table Architecture for Learning and Civic Use

11.10 | 3pm – table Culture and Public Architecture

11.10 – 15h – workshop Elémenterre teaching bag

11.10 | 4pm – table Reconnecting with Nature & Circular Design

11.10 | 5pm – table Architecture of Belonging: Interpreting Heritage Through Place

12.10 | 10am – table Experience: Climate Refuges and Naturalized Public Spaces, with Eco-Neighborhood

12.10 | 10:30 am – table Childhoods and Climate: Climate Justice in Vulnerable Territories

12.10 | 10:30 am – Windsock Workshop with the Floating Collective

12.10 | 3pm – table Doing a lot with a little: architectures for a planet in transition with Esteban Benavides from Al Borde office

12.10 | 4:30 pm – table Earth – building a sustainable and democratic future

12.10 | 5:45 pm – table French presence at the Biennale and screening of the film AJAP – Albums of Young Architects and Landscape Architects

13.10 – activity Pantanal Action at IABsp

10/14 | 10am – table Urgent Panorama! Space as an act of permanence

14.10 | 6pm – Launch of the “Nature-Based Education” Guide

JOIN! IT'S ALL FREE!

And there's much more until October 19th!

NOTE OF CONDOLENCE

With deep sorrow, the Brazilian Institute of Architects – São Paulo Department (IABsp) mourns the passing of architect and landscape architect Kongjian Yu, a global leader in ecological urbanism, and the members of his team who accompanied him, tragically killed during the filming of a documentary. The institute is honored to have had him as a participant in the 14th São Paulo International Architecture Biennial, where his transformative vision strengthened the dialogue between global challenges and local realities. IABsp emphasizes that Yu's contribution, which transcends borders, will remain an inspiration for generations and expresses its condolences to China, to the families of all the deceased, to his friends, and to all those impacted by his genius and dedication. Read the full note here.

Paramo monitoring system

General Workshop