Maloca de la etnia Muina Murui, la construcción vernácula de los indígenas Uitoto

Abstract

The vernacular constructions are the materialized answer to the living-place needs and communal buildings of population that make use of autochthonous materials to build them, implementing autonomous construction techniques, without appealing to construction experts. The Muina Murui malokas, Uitoto ethnicity, make part of this kind of architecture, and the way that they build those communal houses has been preserved, to a large degree, since prehispanic times. Nevertheless, this ancestral knowledge has been relegated by an industrialized constructive model, that supersedes with modern techniques the ancestral architecture. Therefore, the project presented through this paper was carried on with the collaboration of “Patio de ciencia dulce” community locate in Tapacara village, belonging to the Amazonas State, is an academic proposal in order to describe how the maloka constructive process is, and to describe how is the relationship between the indigenous community with it and how this characteristic cultural component of the vernacular constructions is presented, keeping in mind the objective of presenting a primer directed to the indigenous community so that explain the construction development and that it could be a reference paper about how to build in an ancestral way different from the industrialized ones.