Three decades after: El Niño flow 1983, en la comunidad Campesina " San Pedro de Mórrope", Lambayeque, Perú.
FC-01x Future Cities (1st Run) - Exercise 1 : "Making the Invisible - Visible"
Uploaded on 2014-12-09 by huarmi
[1]: https://edxuploads.s3.amazonaws.com/14181475006335483.jpg I first visited my community in 1982, a beautiful place with its own architecture, made of adobe, carob tree and gypsum plaster, sidewalks made of rock of plaster, from mines owned by the community. A few months later throughout northern Peru was hit by El Niño of 1983. Literally, the skyline was wiped out, disappearing almost all infrastructure and evidence of a village with houses of natural homes that were then over 100 years old. The village has religious monuments, dating from the XVI century. 30 years later, we expect a new event and the people still recovering from above. We can see, the durability of a local material such as adobe, despite the time and neglect. I can see that people in the community have depreciated the value of old constructions, giving value and preference to materials that they are called "noble" as cement and steel or iron . The local authorities need to work with the community residents in order to reassess the building tradition. Natural materials are durables and healthy with proper maintenance. I am thinking of future cities are without local identity.