PUERTO EL MORRO PIG PROJECT Leah Zaldumbide, Margherita Buzzi, Yuliya Grebyonkina
OVERVIEW > SOCIAL ISSUE Sanitation issue of free roaming pigs in Puerto el Morro village, Ecuador.
> COMMUNITY PARTNER APROFE Medical non-profit privately owned organization
> GOALS • Distinct Pig Ways • Distinct Pig Zones - Lounges • Allow for Puerto El Morro Residents and Pigs to co-exist in a boundary free condition • Respect for cultural importance of the animal
WHO? > TEAM (PIG PALS)
Leah Zaldumbide BArch
Margherita Buzzi MFA Design
Yuliya Grebyonkina BArch
Family from Ecuador
Italy
Kazakhstan
SKILLS Architecture
SKILLS Industrial + graphic design
SKILLS Architecture
EXPERIENCES Prototyping school for Guinea Bissau
EXPERIENCES Volunteering with kids in Moldova
EXPERIENCES Architecture Summer Study in South America
WHO? > TEAM (PIG PALS)
Leah Zaldumbide BArch
Margherita Buzzi MFA Design
Yuliya Grebyonkina BArch
Family from Ecuador
Italy
Kazakhstan
SKILLS Architecture
SKILLS Industrial + graphic design
SKILLS Architecture
EXPERIENCES Prototyping school for Guinea Bissau
EXPERIENCES Volunteering with kids in Moldova
EXPERIENCES Architecture Summer Study in Argentina
WHO? > TEAM (PIG PALS)
Leah Zaldumbide BArch
Margherita Buzzi MFA Design
Yuliya Grebyonkina BArch
Family from Ecuador
Italy
Kazakhstan
SKILLS Architecture
SKILLS Industrial + graphic design
SKILLS Architecture
EXPERIENCES Prototyping school for Guinea Bissau
EXPERIENCES Volunteering with kids in Moldova
EXPERIENCES Architecture Summer Study in Argentina
WHO? > TEAM (PIG PALS)
Leah Zaldumbide BArch
Margherita Buzzi MFA Design
Yuliya Grebyonkina BArch
VISION Make design accesible and sustainable rather than exclusive. Learn from different cultures, exchange and collaborate.
WHO? > MAIN COMMUNITY PARTNER: APROFE Distinguished public health organization which offers services to rural communities with little resources. Private, non-profit, apolitical and respectful of any religious creed. Their mission is to inform, orient, educate and provide quality medical services.
WHO? > COMMUNITY PARTNER: FRANJA ARTE-COMUNIDAD Residence that promotes art, cultural activities and knowledge exchange in the community. Its current aim is to forge spaces for collaborative work and dialogue, to critically articulate the meaning of artistic practice in community settings, and create processes and experiences of value and meaning for those involved.
WHAT? > PUERTO EL MORRO, ECUADOR Our community partner APROFE initiated the following activities: • • • • • •
Water reserve restoration Video and radio group Sewing group Artistic workshop Talent show Sport events
WHO? > PARTNERS / COMMUNITY
LARISSA MARANGONI
MIRIAM BECERRA
IRENE ARCOS
LORGIA VEGA
Aprofe | Director Ministry of Tourism
Aprofe | Coordinator
Aprofe | Coordinator
Pto. el Morro | Municipal Leader
• Logistics • Press coverage • Equipment and Materials
• Logistics • Main point of contact
• Outreach to community • Involved with local sewing group
• Land Use
WHO? > PARTNERS / COMMUNITY
MARIA ELENA MINO
DARREL DEBOER
ALEJANDRO MEITIN
DIEGO PEREA
Engineer | Ecuador
Architect | San Francisco
Artist | Social Practice
Aprofe | Art | Videotaping
• Knowledge of local resources for labor and materials • Advisor
• Bamboo expert • Advisor
• 4 years experience working with the community • Advisor
• Community Outreach • Children’s Radio | Video Group
WHERE? > PUERTO EL MORRO, ECUADOR Puerto el Morro is a small fisherman village of about 2000 people in Ecuador, underserved and formally unrecognized. It is located very close to the Olmos estuary in the Manglares El Morro refuge. Looking through the Google maps it is hard to identify the village, as it does not have a formal map and can only be located via satellite imagery.
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WHERE? > PUERTO EL MORRO, ECUADOR Sources of income in the village are fishing, shrimping.
WHO? > PUERTO EL MORRO, ECUADOR The community is very strong, with great potential and enthusiasm, but no resources available to address the free roaming piglet issue.
WHAT? > PIGS AND COMMUNITY History of pig ownership has been long present in the community. They are treated with respect and become part of the family. Almost every family has one or two pigs. This fact makes a simple solution of creating farm-like infrastructures impossible and damaging for the community, as it will disregard their way of living.
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WHAT? > PIGS AND COMMUNITY FREE ROAMING PIGS
• Picking through garbage • Soling the street • Creating repellent place for residents and tourists
WHAT? > SANITARY ISSUE Numerous kinds of organic dust, microorganisms and mycotoxins cause a serious sanitary threat to the well being of kids and elderly as well as respiratory and bacteria hazard. The sanitary conditions demand a change for the better health of residents, potential tourism influx and therefore strengthening of economic stability and overall life improvement. This has been a great concern that our community partner, APROFE, has asked us to address.
WHAT? > RESEARCH: FARM VISIT IDEAS We found inspiration in the strategy of chicken tunnels, which regulate chicken grazing, to control the movement of the pigs in the town.
WHAT? > RESEARCH: FARM VISIT IDEAS Introduce a food scraps collection program to support the needs of the pigs. Provide all necessary conditions to keep pigs from attempting to escape.
HOW? > OUR PROPOSAL: PIG “WAY� Our Goal is to create a unique infrastructure that will allow Pigs of Puerto el Morro to co-exist with people in a more controlled and structured way without giving up their freedom and cultural proximity while creating a healthier, positive and uniting environment for both.
PUERTO EL MORRO PIG PROJECT
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pigway
larger implementation: thorough analyzing, interaction and understanding the structure of the town, culture, history/
HOW? > OUR PROPOSAL: PIG “WAY” STRUCTURE PUERTO EL MORRO Sheltered fenced pathway with sun protection, feeding and scratching stations.
WHAT CAN BE DONE?
PIG PROJECT
FUNCTION Controlling pigs’ movement and keep the town clean. 3 4 5 lounge Navigating pigs to “pig lounges”, opening up the streets for kids’ activitiespig and tourism integration material. NETWORK The idea is to create a network of pigPUERTO districts. EL MORRO Our proposal is to build the first one and give the tools for the community to continue.
PIG PROJECT
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4 pig lounge
pig districts
district networks
pigway
larger implementation: thorough analyzing, interaction and understanding the structure of the town, culture, history/ community organization and needs of people, children and animals we seek to provide a larger framework
this framework will create pig districts localized networks of pigways and pig lounges with a field manual for each individual plot, with such manual and instruction residents of the district can easily understand, build and adapt the system to their need
pig distric pigway
WHERE? > SITE ANALYSIS
Destination: Bird Estuary
Main income edge: Fishing & Shrimping Main road Secondary roads
WHERE? > SITE ANALYSIS
WHERE? > SITE ANALYSIS
Places of Opportunity
WHERE? > SITE ANALYSIS
Lounge
WHERE? > SITE ANALYSIS
Site & District
WHERE? > SITE ANALYSIS
pig way pig lounge
SITE PLAN
entry/ crossing
termination point pig buffet/ food scraps collector
food scraps collectors
property edge
HOW? > DETAILS: SECTION Palm leaf covering shading 2 1/2” long nail connection Split bamboo structure Threaded rod and nut and washer connection
A. B.
7 cm diameter bamboo
Planter
10 cm diameter bamboo
Threaded rod and nut and washer connection Food scraps bin, slides in and out for easy use
Gravel
Silicone sealant C. 4” PVC pipe
4” deep concrete base
HOW? > DETAILS: PLAN
Water station
Food scraps drop off
4’-0”
7 cm diameter bamboo cross structure 7 cm diameter bamboo vertical structure
Scratching post
Shading structure
18’-0”
HOW? > DETAILS: COMPONENTS BREAK DOWN
A.
B.
Shading structure x4 x9 x4 x4 x12 x12 x28
10 cm bamboo 7 cm bamboo threated rod threated rod nuts washers 2 1/2” nails
3’-3” long 3’-3” long 2’-0” long 21” long
C.
Cross structure | Feeding x14 x8 x30 x60 x60 x4 x2
7cm bamboo 18’-0” long 7 cm bamboo 5’-0” long threated rod 21” long nuts washers latch food and water container
Vertical structure | Concrete footing x12 x35 x47 x4
10 cm bamboo 7 cm bamboo 4’ PVC tube 10’x10’x4’ concrete footing
3’-3” long 3’-3” long 2’-0” long 21” long
HOW? > MATERIALS WORKSHOPS
HOW? > INVOLVING KIDS Little residents of Puerto El Morro are highly enthusiastic about finding the solution to pig issue. Activities with them can include: • Hands on workshops • Food collection • Composting • Pig naming + Storytelling
HOW? > DOCUMENTATION VIDEO Involve kids participating in Diego’s video and sound recording workshop to document the process. BLOG Keep a blog about the project updated day by day.
HOW? > NEXT STEPS INSTRUCTION MANUAL The manual will be easy to understand, in order to allow the community to carry on building and adapting the system to their needs.
WHEN? > TIMELINE: JUNE WEEK 1: DAY 1: DAY 2:
Workshop | Survey of the town | Mapping project of pigs activity with children Workshop | Continue mapping project and conduct open discussion about positive and negative aspects of livingin proximity to the pigs. Introduce residential recycling containers.
DAY 3: Workshop | Collaborative hands on design session with children to think critically and creatively about solutions for building a structure to control the animals. DAY 4+: Core team plans out layout for footing and foundation of structures, fleshes out final design of structures, incorporating elements discovered from the workshop activities.
Week 2:
Concrete slabs and footings poured, with bamboo posts set into place. Holes for tree planting all dug.
Week 3:
Completion of assembly of pig avenue, feeding containers installed. Installation of trees.
Week 4:
Completion of assembly of pig lounge, feeding containers installed. Grand opening celebration.
WHY? > IMPACT
WHAT? > IMPACT
HOW? > IMPACT
THANK YOU Leah Zaldumbide, Margherita Buzzi, Yuliya Grebyonkina