Predominant materials: wood structure quinilla (bidentata manilkara), roofing in palm leaf (irapay, shebon), exterior walls quinilla and wire mesh, interior wood paneling: capirona (calycophyllum spruceanum), pavements in quinilla and shihuahuaco (Dipteryx Micrantha).

© Samuel Bravo

Architects: Sandra Iturriaga, Samuel Bravo

Location: Yarinacocha, Pucallpa, Peru

Area: 1162.0 sqm

Project Year: 2014

Photographs: Samuel Bravo, Juan Balazs

Builder: Rodrigo Melendez

Master Carpenters: Amador Sanchez, Misael Marin

Client: Ani Nii Shobo

© Juan Balazs

From the architect. Predominant materials: wood structure quinilla (bidentata manilkara), roofing in palm leaf (irapay, shebon), exterior walls quinilla and wire mesh, interior wood paneling: capirona (calycophyllum spruceanum), pavements in quinilla and shihuahuaco (Dipteryx Micrantha).
Location

Ani Nii Shobo, big house of the forest in Shipibo language, is a healing center and nature reserve based on the traditional medicine of the Shipibo people

© Samuel Bravo

The project is located on the banks of a lagoon near the native community of San Francisco de Yarinacocha in the Ucayali region in the Peruvian Amazon. The Ucayali river?s seasonal floods determine this landscape and its ecosystems with fluct...