Under the title of “CLIMATES: Actions for good living”, the XIII BIAU is held in Lima, a city located in a desert with extreme climatic conditions, standing out as an exceptional place to reflect on environmental, economic and political climates and their relationship with the built environment.
This edition focuses on how to face contemporary challenges in urban and rural environments, such as the housing crisis, social inequality and the pressure of urbanization, which ignores the cultural particularities of each territory. Innovation is promoted in the use of local materials and techniques in pursuit of environmental sustainability.
In the Works category, projects such as Las Tejedoras (Ecuador) or the Parque Urbano Isla Cautón (Chile) take a critical look at current climatic problems such as deforestation or the lack of water or its destructive action, offering alternatives that enhance local vernacular and artisanal techniques. Alongside them, examples such as the Petén project (Mexico) or Raw Rooms (Spain) focus on housing and local roots as sustainable solutions.
In other categories such as New Rules, projects that promote strategies and forms of social organisation and relationship with the habitat and the city are highlighted. This is the case of La Revuelta escolar (Spain), which calls for the improvement of the environment and infrastructure in educational centres in the face of pollution or noise, or Femingas (Ecuador), which relates architecture to the gender perspective.
From this starting point, the BIAU award winners have been selected through three "climates" or thematic approaches: environmental, political and socioeconomic.
Works
01. Cautín Island Urban Park. Hydroecological infrastructure for urban resilience (Chile) by Osvaldo Moreno Flores.
02. Las Tejedoras - Community production center by (Ecuador) Natura Futura, Juan Carlos Bamba.
03. Chaki Wasi, handicraft center of the Shalalá community (Ecuador) by La Cabina de la Curiosidad (Marie Combette, Daniel Moreno Flores).
04. French Institute of Andean Studies Lima (Peru) by José Bauer Silva, Augusto Román Moncagatta, Enrique Santillana Ciriani.
05. San Blas Customs Cultural Center (Mexico) by Colectivo C733 (Gabriela Carrillo, Israel Espín, Eric Valdez, Carlos Facio, José Amozurrutia).
06. Center for Culture and Arts of La Ribera (Mexico) by Alejandro Guerrero, Andrea Soto, ATELIER ARS.
07. Vinata de Mezcal (Mexico) by Estudio ALA.
08. Petén (Mexico) by Eduardo Reims, Andrea Maldonado.
09. Raw Rooms (Casas de Tierra), 43 Social Housing in Ibiza (Spain) by Marta Peris, José Toral.
10. Social Housing 1737 (Spain) by Harquitectes.
Publications
02. Living in Lisbon. An Architectural View on Housing Challenges (Portugal) by Marta Sequeira.
03. The paths of water (Mexico) by La Cabina de la Curiosidad (Marie Combette, Daniel Moreno Flores).
04. Intangible Heritage Expeditions, observations and conferences by Roberto Burle Marx and collaborators (Mexico) by María A. Villalobos H., Carla Urbina.
05. A breviary of compacted earth and the women in it (Mexico) by Colectiva Argamasa (Brenda Isabel Pérez, Paula Florentina Barba, Mariana Montserrat Quintanar).
06. Floating habitats. A look at the architecture of water in Ecuador (Ecuador) by Natura Futura, Juan Carlos Bamba.
08. arquitetura x escassez (Brazil) by Cassio Sauer.
09. Better Futures (Spain) by Husos Arquitecturas (Diego Barajas and Camilo Garcia), Mariana Pestana, Isabel Gutierrez Sanchez, Candela Morado, Anna Puigjaner, Superflux, Alejandro Galliano, The Never School and the Other Futures, Studio Ossidiana.
10. Atea 10 (Mexico) by Miguel Gonzalez Escamilla, Jose de Jesus Lopez Sanchez.
Pedagogies
01. South South Territorial Acupuncture (Chile). Miguel Nazar, Rodrigo Sheward, Martin Del Solar, Yanko Bugueño, Jose Angel Brunel, Josefina Lopez Pinto, Gabriel Vargas, Andres Utz, Valentina Galleguillos.
02. Architecture in Action, Projects for Local Realities (Ecuador). Andrea Carolina Rodas Buenaño.
03. Vodudahue Research and Project Workshop (Chile). Paula Aguirre Brautigam, Pablo Alfaro Vial.
04. Internships at the water's edge (Colombia). Luisa Maria Restrepo Marin.
05. Final Year Projects Workshop 1. PFC1 (Peru). Augusto Roman Moncagatta, Susana Lopez Varela, Cesar Tarazona Huaman.
06. Rio Turbio and Rio Caribe (Venezuela). Ana Valenzuela, Alessandro Famiglietti, Cesar Figueroa, Gabriel Garcia, Joao de Freitas, Khristian Ceballos, Marcos Coronel-Bravo, Maria Garcia, Ricardo Sanz, Rodrigo Marin; 07. The Sechura Desert, urban seeds (Peru). Carlos Alfredo Palomino Medina, Luis Carlos Castillo Huamán.
08. The garden and the room (Peru). Mariana Jochamowitz, Nicolás Rivera.
09. The Rabasa Lagoons: interspecies [an]architectural fictions in possible futures (Spain). Juan Carlos Castro-Dominguez.
10. To Vila do Mañá (Spain). Sandra González Álvarez, Fernando Agrasar Quiroga, Luz Paz Agras, Ana María Álvarez Paz.
New Rules
01. Recovery of ecological infrastructure in the Lomas de Lima (Peru) by Narda Gianina Villalon Najarro, Natividad Quispe Sanchez, Delia Esther Montalvo Moriano, Mernin Martin Escurra Cabezas, Juan Manuel Pinto Alfaro.
02. Assembly Architecture (Argentina) by Ariel Hernán Jacubovich.
03. Amunas and Qochas, green infrastructures to face the water crisis (Peru) by Aquafondo.
04. Waycha Mayu Urban Biological Corridor: governance and socio-environmental restoration in suburban neighborhoods of the municipality of Sacaba (Bolivia) by MSc. Arq. Alain Claude Vimercati (project coordinator); Arq. Laura Virginia Llanos Guardia; PhD. Ing. Ariel Ayma Romay (Forestry engineer).
05. FOONVITE. Architecture to address the qualitative housing deficit in Antioquia (Colombia) by COONVITE Arquitectura Cooperativa.
06. Femingas. An alternative to feminist construction (Ecuador) by Femingas.
07. Experiences of innovation in communal kitchens in urban environments (Peru) by Erico Tueroconza, Julia Ninahuman.
08. National Housing Improvement Program "Mi pieza" (Argentina) by Rafael García Lazo, Esteban Fernández, Florencia Carla Yaccarino, María Paula Turco.
09. The school revolt and its urban environments, Madrid, 2020 - 2024 (Spain) by AFA's and AMPA's participating in the School Revolt.
10. Land Competition Strategy (Colombia) by Bogotá Urban Renewal and Development Company, RENOBO.
Other Coordinates
01. Crude Threshold (United Arab Emirates) by Al Borde - David Barragán, Pascual Gangotena, Maríaluisa Borja, Esteban Benavides.
03. Río Somes (Romania) by PRACTICE (Jaime Daroca, José Mayoral, José Ramón Sierra).
04. Charging and battery exchange stations for electric motorcycles (Rwanda, Kenya) by Nerea Amorós Elorduy, Victor Gonzalez Martí, Faidra Matziaraki.
05. Bohinj Nursery School (Slovenia) by Sofia Romeo, Miguel Sotos, Ana Jerman, Janja Šušnjar.
06. Folk Costumes, Indo-Pacific Air (Australia) by Urtzi Grau, Guillermo Fernández-Abascal.
07. Design-Build Studios in Latin America (USA) by Felipe Mesa, Ana Valderrama, Guastavo Dieguez.
The BIAU is convened by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Agenda (MIVAU) through the General Secretariat of Urban Agenda, Housing and Architecture in collaboration with the Superior Council of Colleges of Architects of Spain (CSCAE) and the Arquia Foundation.
![The Rabasa Lagoons: interspecies [an]architectural fictions in possible futures (Spain). Juan Carlos Castro-Dominguez. Grado en Fundamentos de la Arquitectura. Escuela Politécnica Superior. Universidad de Alicante.](/sites/default/files/2024-11/metalocus_BIAU_XIII_29.jpg "The Rabasa Lagoons: interspecies [an]architectural fictions in possible futures (Spain). Juan Carlos Castro-Dominguez. Grado en Fundamentos de la Arquitectura. Escuela Politécnica Superior. Universidad de Alicante.")
