Context matters to Al Borde, perhaps to an extreme: for a house embedded in the side of a volcano, the Ecuadorian architecture firm conducted a traditional ceremony to ask the mountain permission to build there; they've also constructed a one-room schoolhouse from materials found on-site, with a budget less than the cost of a kitchen sink.
This four-member firm'David Barrag'n, Pascual Gangotena, Marialuisa Borja, and Esteban Benavides'takes a homespun approach to design, creating community-oriented structures in a manner that is profoundly populist and devoid of fixed dogmas. It is fitting, then, that Al Borde is Spanish for 'at the edge.'
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