ecoMachines - La Paz "Breeding by Prototyping" BoliviaAA Inter10 students went to Bolivia for a collaborative project with students of Universita Catolica; in La Paz the outcomewas a prototype of a Chiwena, the local market stall. The prototype redefines the use of a local material and constructiontechnique, the totora bundling developed by the populations of Titicaca lake. The deployablestructure shades while concentrating solar energy to offset local extreme temperature fluctuations. In conclusion, our Chiwena prototype is potentially an ecoMachine, given that its potential to not only respond to the immediate environmental condition but also addressing or triggering wider socialeconomicagenda...The Chiwea must be able to recalculate the conditions of the market, allowing itself to always act as an effective interfacebetween buyers and sellers...the moisture absorption of the material changed the behavior of that material. It became more flexible, too flexible, and then its structural system began to fail. Although this change in material behavior did not result in a desirable effect, there was still a change. It still responded to an environmental condition (rain). Here was a material that was highly sensitive to environment.And a technique developed from an intimate working with the material. So inclosing I would say that the extreme breakdown ofthat system by rain was the proof that it was an eco machine. A broken eco-machine is still an eco-machine pills of architectural speculation from the AAINTER10 students. For more check: http://aainter10.wordpress.com/
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