🏛️ Architecture & Design Mar 24, 2026 · Ida Torres

Mud, Microbes, and the 46 m² Lab the Amazon Needed

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Mud, Microbes, and the 46 m² Lab the Amazon Needed
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Most of us picture a laboratory as a sleek, sterile box of steel and glass perched on a university campus or inside some tech park. The Witoca Laboratory in Ecuador is none of those things. Built from adobe, shaped like a three-pointed star, and sitting quietly inside the buffer zone of the Sumaco Biosphere Reserve in the Ecuadorian Amazon, it looks less like a lab and more like something that grew out of the ground. Which, in a way, it did.
The building was designed by Ecuadorian studio Al Bord

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