Amid the vibrant natural landscape of Puerto Ayora, abandoned buildings remain as quiet traces of interrupted plans and disconnection, leaving rough edges within an otherwise lively townscape. This project seeks to reawaken these dormant structures, offering a replicable strategy for unfinished buildings to regain purpose, introduce new character, and reintegrate into local life.

The existing building on site forms a grounded base, from which a new volume emerges like a tree growing from the soil. A trellis façade supports climbing vines, its branching structure echoing the form of the native Scalesia tree and transforming the architecture into a living presence.

Rather than erasing the past, the design proposes a respectful return of the built environment to nature—allowing time, growth, and vegetation to reclaim the structure. Architecture becomes a quiet framework for regeneration, where natural and built elements evolve together in balance.

Through this strategy of green revitalization, unfinished buildings are offered a second growth. Collectively, they form the phenomenon of “trees growing in the town”—not as a metaphor for vertical expansion, but as a deliberate architectural gesture that supports local ecology, softens the urban fabric, and reconnects the town with its surrounding landscape.