Above Water, Slope, and Forest: Elevated Architecture in Latin America

Lamarilla Reforestation House / Quena Margarita Gonzalez Escobar + Juan David Hoyos Taborda. Image © Alejandro ArangoIn Latin America, the ground is rarely just a surface to build on. It can be a river edge, a steep slope, a humid forest floor, a floodable landscape, or a territory under ecological pressure, and in many cases, it carries a history of communities that already knew how to respond to it, building on stilts, on platforms, over water, long before contemporary architecture asked