La Cabina de la Curiosidad is a Quito-based design and research practice combining architecture, craft, and education. ​​Founded by Marie Combette and Daniel Moreno Flores in 2019, the practice investigates notions of community and territory through transdisciplinary collaboration and building projects, emerging from a deep commitment to architecture as a shared cultural endeavour. 

On the slopes of the caldera that holds the Quilotoa Lake in the Ecuadorian Andes, La Cabina worked with the Shalalá Indigenous community to design a visitor center and market hall for handicrafts. Called Chaki Wasi—meaning “house made of straw from the ground up” in Kichwa, a regional language—the center embodies Andean culture through its use of traditional building techniques. Conceived to promote local tourism while supporting the long-term needs of the Shalalá community, the project is rooted in practices transmitted through generations, celebrating the rituals of building to frame preservation as a generative act.