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as waters rise in the peruvian amazon, espacio común’s cinema stage gathers a city afloat

designboom | architecture & design magazine·thomai tsimpou I designboom·2 months ago
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collective cinema shaped by river and ritual   In Belén, Peru , where the Itaya River redraws the city each year, a floating cinema emerges as a recurring space for collective life . The Floating Stage for MuyunaFest, developed by Espacio Común Association together with local builders from the neighborhood, takes shape within this amphibious context in the Peruvian Amazon. Here, seasonal flooding between January and June transforms streets into waterways, reorganizing daily routines around canoes, stilt houses, and floating structures. Within this shifting environment, long marked by environmental pressure and limited state support, local initiatives continue to sustain spaces for education, gathering, and cultural production.   The geometry of the project draws from the muyuna, the whirlpool formed at the meeting point of rivers and understood in Kukama cosmology as a passage between worlds.…

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