For its participation at the Sharjah Architecture Triennial, Natura Futura in collaboration with researcher Juan Carlos Bamba rehabilitated a floating house for Don Carlos, Doña Teresa, and their youngest son — a family that has lived on and been sustained by the river for more than 30 years. Carlos repairs wooden boats, while Teresa prepares and sells traditional food to the surrounding community. “La Balsanera - Floating Productive House” presents a scale model, drawings, and visual documentation of this process, charting the resilience of self-organisational, participatory design, recovering contextual artisanal techniques, and seeking to initiate the implementation of public policy that allows for the regenerative inhabitation of Babahoyo’s riverbanks.