"Working together with local families and re:arc Practice Lab, the architects at Natura Futura establishes the floating neighborhood as a framework for rehabilitating seven existing houses of varying sizes. The work also includes the restoration of the riverbank with endemic vegetation and the formation of floodable public spaces that respond to water levels. This spatial diagram supports a neighborhood in continuous dialogue with its setting."
"The Floating Neighborhood of Las Balsas, or 'the rafts,' rises along the Babahoyo River in Ecuador, where Natura Futura Arquitectura has collaborated with residents to reinforce a historic riverine way of life. Developed on the water's edge, the project addresses a transformation that reshaped the community over the past two centuries. The Babahoyo River once supported more than two hundred fifty floating houses. By 2010, most families had been relocated to public housing further inland, severing their link to commerce and daily routines"
Natura Futura Arquitectura partners with local families to restore a declining riverfront floating neighborhood on the Babahoyo River in Ecuador. The effort rehabilitates seven existing floating houses, reinstates traditional timber building methods, and re-establishes a floating ecosystem that integrates housing, work, and communal life. Riverbank restoration uses endemic vegetation and floodable public spaces that adapt to changing water levels. Structural systems combine floating platforms, replicable wooden truss modules, lightweight metal components, recycled flotation tanks, and local wood to allow modular expansion and resilience through intense winter seasons while maintaining direct connection to the river.
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