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construction financing Building team This text is part of Tetéia’s Building Journal — documenting the process of building a house on the Maraú Peninsula, Bahia. After understanding the limits — and what was required to get the project approved — as we shared in the previous texts, what emerges is not clarity, but a new layer of questions. Much of what defines building with a Caixa construction loan in Brazil is only understood in practice — as became clear when certain condit

Public image and coexistence in the territory BoraMaraú panel, measuring 3.33 × 3.40 m BoraMaraú wheatpaste panel was created in December 2025, following an invitation from Eduardo, a seasonal resident of Algodões and political activist. Like us, he came from Brazil’s Southeast and maintains an ongoing attention to local community issues, especially regarding forms of coexistence, permanence, and participation in the territory. The work was installed at Casa Taba Maraú and em

Portraits of a neighborhood and the time of blue Algodões em Azul at Bar da Toinha Algodões em Azul, held in December 2025 at Bar da Toinha, began in a simple way, almost without the intention of becoming an exhibition. Our temporary home — where we are living while the Tetéia residency is being built — is next to the bar, in a small village where almost everyone belongs to the same family — siblings, cousins, uncles. We are outsiders, but that condition gradually dissolves i

when the project meets reality Construction loan This text is part of Tetéia’s Building Journal — an ongoing series documenting the process of building a house on the Maraú Peninsula, in Bahia, Brazil, between design, territory, and everything that escapes planning. There’s a common idea about building a house: that it starts with the design. In our case, not exactly. It started with a project that fit within our financial reality. Tetéia is being built with a combination of