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Award: Honorable Mention Ancient traditions are being lost with technology today, people have lost interest in learning about their origins. The Huaorani indigenous community currently does not have spaces to carry out their traditional ancestral activities, and the project arises as an opportunity to provide them with better spaces in which they can also interact with tourists, in addition to improving their economies. Johana Mendoza The concept comes from how to connect the natural environment full of vegetation and animals with an architectural element that allows native people to teach and exchange ideas with tourists from all over the world, creating an Amazonian workshop, so them can be able to make group meals, learn to make c... More

On April 16, 2016, a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck to the coastal provinces of Ecuador, leaving several families homeless and jobless. The project seeks to reactivate the tourism of the zone called Tarqui based on a comprehensive approach in which established different facilities within the territory vulnerable taking into account the resilience capacity. Johana Mendoza So the project is an intervention on an existing hotel that was affected for the earthquate in which the evacuation, diversity of uses and public spaces, are important design factors that can allow local people and tourists to improve the local economy in a new environment without lose the essence of the place. Johana Mendoza Johana Mendoza More