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Day 8 — THE TERRITORY CAME BEFORE THE HOUSE
And that changes how you arrive — and how you build a new life in the Maraú Peninsula, Bahia. The Maraú Peninsula, on the southern coast of Bahia, Brazil, is increasingly sought after. If you search “how is it to live in Maraú” or “Maraú Peninsula Brazil,” you’ll mostly find images of long beaches and unreal turquoise water. They exist. But they do not explain the territory. Maraú is more than a beach destination. It is an estuarine region, an environmental preservation area,

Nancy Silva
Mar 234 min read


DAY 2: SLAB DAY IS BARBECUE DAY
The house program, capitalism, and the beginning of the soap opera. Photo: @unakiki Slab Day Is Barbecue Day. The day you pour concrete, you grill meat and start drinking early. Cultural fact. The behind-the-scenes celebration belongs to Instagram and TikTok — because only Brazilians understand the emotional magnitude of pouring a slab. Here, the story was different: how Tetéia’s architectural concept came to life. Architects call everything a house must contain its “program.

Nancy Silva
Feb 192 min read
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