Natura Futura Arquitectura

Community Productive Development Center Las Tejedoras

Community Productive Development Center Las Tejedoras
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Community Productive Development Center Las Tejedoras

Natura Futura Arquitectura + Juan Carlos Bamba

AREA
665 m²

YEAR
2023

PHOTOGRAPHS
Jag Studio

CATEGORY
Culture Center

PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Fundación Young Living

GRAPHICS
Andres Ortega, Cynthia Rosero

BUILDING CONSTRUCTIONS
Pablo Ponce

LOCATION
Chongón, Ecuador

COLLABORATORS
Andrea Ollague, Hector Perlaza, Fundación La Iguana, Bromelias

Community Productive Development Center Las Tejedoras
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Community Productive Development Center Las Tejedoras
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Architecture as a tool for the insertion, linkage, and support of women weavers.

Community Productive Development Center Las Tejedoras
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Community Productive Development Center Las Tejedoras
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"Las Tejedoras" is located on the outskirts of the urban community of Chongón, Ecuador, with a population of approximately 4,900 people, where the majority are women who are not part of the economically active groups, with little possibility of entering a labor niche.

Since 2009 the Young Living Foundation; dedicated to generating programs that promote the potential of communities through education and entrepreneurship, opened the Young Living Academy where around 150 low-income children study, whose mothers are part of the local productive workshops.

Thus forming the Organization of Bromelias Artisan Women, focused on development through handmade fabrics with natural fibers.

Community Productive Development Center Las Tejedoras
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Community Productive Development Center Las Tejedoras
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Community Productive Development Center Las Tejedoras
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Over time, the group has increased its members, thus emerging the need for a new space.

The project is developed from its design and construction through the transdisciplinary work of the Young Living Foundation, Bromelias, Natura Futura, and Juan Carlos Bamba, with the main objective of generating a productive center for learning, integration exchange, and sale of artisan handicrafts.

Community Productive Development Center Las Tejedoras
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Community Productive Development Center Las Tejedoras
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The project is developed from its design and construction through the transdisciplinary work of the Young Living Foundation, Bromelias, Natura Futura, and Juan Carlos Bamba, with the main objective of generating a productive center for learning, integration exchange, and sale of artisan handicrafts.

A patio with endemic vegetation is proposed as a meeting and exhibition place that is contained by two side naves and a central one; one contains theoretical training classrooms, a cafeteria, and hygienic services; the other, practical learning workshops, sleeping space, warehouses and a store to sell the products developed in the central nave where the artisan fabrics are made.

Community Productive Development Center Las Tejedoras
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Community Productive Development Center Las Tejedoras
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The main front is a productive-exhibition gallery that serves as a filter for the patio and as an element to generate urbanity towards the street.

While the rear face is closed towards the dividing space to generate greater control security.

Community Productive Development Center Las Tejedoras
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Community Productive Development Center Las Tejedoras
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The use of round teak wood is proposed as the main structure commonly used for the base supports of stilt houses in vulnerable areas of the region due to its hardness and durability, holding the roof and the floor on the upper level.

The brick walls are built with the herringbone weave method and stiffened by the very shape of the interlocked walls.

Community Productive Development Center Las Tejedoras
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Community Productive Development Center Las Tejedoras
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Wooden folding lattice doors are used to control ventilation, illumination, and link between the exterior and interior.

Las Tejedoras seeks to be a space for the intermediation of productive development processes, linking unemployed women through active participation, the potentiation of local artisan techniques, and the revitalization of learning as an empowerment tool.

Community Productive Development Center Las Tejedoras
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Community Productive Development Center Las Tejedoras
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Community Productive Development Center Las Tejedoras
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Community Productive Development Center Las Tejedoras
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Community Productive Development Center Las Tejedoras
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Community Productive Development Center Las Tejedoras
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Community Productive Development Center Las Tejedoras
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Community Productive Development Center Las Tejedoras
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Community Productive Development Center Las Tejedoras
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Community Productive Development Center Las Tejedoras
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Community Productive Development Center Las Tejedoras
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Community Productive Development Center Las Tejedoras
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Community Productive Development Center Las Tejedoras
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Community Productive Development Center Las Tejedoras
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Community Productive Development Center Las Tejedoras
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Community Productive Development Center Las Tejedoras
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Community Productive Development Center Las Tejedoras
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Community Productive Development Center Las Tejedoras
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Community Productive Development Center Las Tejedoras
Site plan


Community Productive Development Center Las Tejedoras
First floor plan
Community Productive Development Center Las Tejedoras
 Second floor plan


Community Productive Development Center Las Tejedoras
Cross-section of open doors
Community Productive Development Center Las Tejedoras
Cross-section of closed doors


Community Productive Development Center Las Tejedoras
Closed longitudinal section
Community Productive Development Center Las Tejedoras
Open longitudinal section

Natura Futura Arquitectura
Natura Futura Arquitectura
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