Today´s newsletter features a very special project: Fazenda Canuanã is a boarding shool promoted by Bradesco Foundation. Located in Brazil´s mid-west rural area, this building is considered the largest wood construction in Latin America and houses 540 children. The social movement A Gente Transforma invited Rosenbaum and Aleph Zero to develop the project though a participant methodology, not exempt from innovation.

Besides the use of laminated timber structures made with certified wood, in the construction process a variety of local techniques were applied, like adobe bricks or straw weaving, while the landscape desing was based on local species. As Rosenbaum put it: “The experience in Formoso do Araguaia proves that the wisdom of indigenous people and caboclos in the construction and occupation of spaces are a heritage of what makes us Brazilian.”