In 2009, we designed and built the Andes Amazon Booth, organized by Brazil’s Ministry of the Environment with funds from the German Technical Cooperation Agency GIZ for the Expo Sustentat event in the city of São Paulo.
The Booth featured companies and organizations from Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru that produce goods and services that originated from sustainable use of Amazonian biodiversity.
Inspired by natural forms and native buildings, we designed space frames, outdoors, and exhibition displays that welcome exhibitors and visitors into a sensory architectural experience with a highly visible visual arrangement.
Based on the concept of complex living systems, we created exhibition displays grouped into spirals, forming non-linear social spaces and suggesting dynamic organizations to the public. We developed custom-tailored furnishings, as well as environments permeable by experimentation and dialog.
The floor was covered with a mat of laminated bamboo dyed the color of urucum, a widely used plant in the Andes and Amazon region. The Booth was decorated with two Amazon palm species: Juçara (Euterpe edulis) and Açaí (Euterpe oleracea).
The Booth’s visual arrangement was prepared jointly with the German government’s GIZ organization, a partner of the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (ACTO), and Brazil’s Ministry of the Environment.
