Show, Teach, Get Involved
Year: 2022
Location: Ibarra, Ecuador
Type: Academic
Show, Teach, Get Involved
Year: 2022
Location: Ibarra, Ecuador
Type: Academic
Image: Gabriel Troncoso, 2025
The Yahuarcocha Lagoon is one of the most important landmarks in Ecuador; However, a lack of interest and alterations in the ecosystem have caused it to enter a state of critical contamination. The proposal takes advantage of the topographic and morphological situations of the site, to propose an architectural complex annexed to the Lagoon, seeking connection, recovery and awareness of it; Starting from the cycle show, teach and get involved for children and adults. In this way, architectural objects are proposed between the edge of the land and the Lagoon, where five volumes are arranged on land and two pavilions over the water, articulated by bridges and ramps. The volumes are shown as stereotomic objects of rammed earth, acting as containers where situations happen. In this sense, the volumes dialogue with each other through their structure and roofs, only visible from the inside, which are made of reinforced concrete and laminated wood.
Image: Gabriel Troncoso, 2025
Exploded Axonometric
ITINERARY
1. Entry (Exhibition)
2. Exhibition Space (Adults)
3. Educational Space (Adults)
4. Intergenerational Meeting Space
5. Exhibition Space (Children)
6. Educational Space (Children)
7. Service Core
8. Research Laboratory Pavilion
8.1 Precipitation Laboratory
8.2 Ion Exchange Laboratory
8.3 Screening Laboratory (Reverse Osmosis)
8.4 Ultrasound Laboratory
+ Menhir (Observation Deck)
The Site - Before
The Site - After I Conceptual Collage
Awards
XIII Architecture Studio Honorable Mention
Professor: Gabriela Naranjo
Alongside Doménica Monteros