#wetlands

#wetlands

"It's just so addictive," Ramanujam said. "Wetlands are the first thing you see when you land in the Bay Area. The beautiful colors, red, pink, green." He's worried that rising sea levels, driven by human-caused climate change, could swallow the baylands he loves so dearly. Climate scientists predict that melting ice caps and expanding ocean waters could cause the seas to rise anywhere between a foot by 2050 and more than six feet by the end of the century.

At the untamed confluence of the Paraná River and the Uruguay River, where the waters flow into the vast Río de la Plata, a singular commission is established. The landscape, a symphony of wetlands and scattered jungle green, evokes the unknown: a primordial nature accessible only by waterway and living under the constant threat of floods. Here, architecture does not seek to disappear but to assert itself; not to go unnoticed, but to engage in dialogue with the organic power of the place.