We co-create self-built housing with women connected to the earth.
We exist to walk with and learn from the women who sustain relationships between people and the earth through affection, co-creation, collective agency, and ancestral knowledge.
Women connected to the land are guardians of embodied wisdom — knowledge that regenerates ecosystems and sustains community life — yet they remain systematically sidelined from decisions about the territories they care for. By co-creating self-built housing with them, architecture returns to its relational and ecological role: restoring agency, redistributing power, and strengthening territorial autonomy. Through learning with these territories and bridging land-based epistemologies with academia and institutions, we help shift architecture from extraction to reciprocity and knowledge sovereignty — from building infrastructure to cultivating collective, land-rooted futures.
Affection
Reciprocity Flow
Women connected to the Earth
Collective Processes
Spatial and Relational Infrastructures
Paradigm Shift
- Territory - Architecture - Institution - Culture - Future -
- Women - Land - Architecture - Institution -
Our methodology is organized in three work fronts:
Immersion & the Encounter
We enter each territory through invitation, presence, and listening. Immersion is the basis for relational architecture — the time of trust, embodied learning, and attuning to the intelligence of the land. We learn from the women who guide us, and also from everything that surrounds them: daily practices, ecological rhythms, materials, climate, and interspecies relations. Immersion reveals how life is organized — and how architecture can participate rather than impose.
Co-Creation & Collective Building
Our projects unfold through co-design and self-building processes rooted in collective agency. Women’s leadership is central, but the entire community participates in ways that reflect local knowledge, relationships, and capacities. Through collaboration, prototyping, and experimentation, architecture becomes a relational practice — one that restores agency, transforms social dynamics, and strengthens territorial autonomy. The process teaches, organizes, redistributes power, and generates futures.
Research, Translation & Commons-Based Knowledge
We transform what we learn in the territory into research, documentation, and dialogue. This work bridges land-based epistemologies with institutions and academia, shifting architectural paradigms while strengthening knowledge sovereignty. We develop theory of change frameworks, indicators, and impact measurements that honor both tangible outputs and relational, cultural, and ecological transformations. Communication is not an output; it is part of the work — ensuring that territorial wisdom circulates without being extracted or diluted.
Rooted in Brazil, built work in Uganda and Mexico, current project in Brazil.
Where?
As architects who have studied in a Brazilian context, we understand that any intervention in space implies in several multifaceted consequences.
As we become aware of the complexity of these interventions, we seek for different ways of thinking, of proposing, of connecting, of reading the space around us.
As a natural consequence, we go to places where we can correlate with some of the complexities we try to read.
Our first built project is in a rural village called Kikajjo, near Kampala, Uganda capital. Our last project was built in the coast area of Oaxaca, Mexico, in a village called Escobilla.
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And now, we are proud to launch a new initiative in the Amazon, in the state of Acre, Brazil. Further information about this important project will be shared shortly.
