Boamistura   Brazil   Formally, we understand a favela as an agglomeration of low-quality housing, which follows a model of 'self-construction' and a process of spontaneous creation, and which is arranged as a network that grows horizontally and vertically according to ne

Despite the undoubted generational affinities or architectural sensibilities that can often be detected among them, the collectives are a heterogeneous and diverse reality, open and continuously updated in their response to the conditions, also varia