Article source: Al bordE architects

All those years of hauling have left it deformed. Even though it’s missing a bogie and has been derailed, when you saw it you could not help but feel respect. Not like what we see now … they don’t make them like they used to.” This is how Nelson, the train driver, describes boxcar 1513.

Image Courtesy © Cyril Nottelet

• Architects: Al bordE architects
• Project: Vagón del Saber – Litoral
• Location: Itinerant, Ecuador
• Photography: Al bordE architects, Cyril Nottelet
• Project Manager: Jorge Noreña
• Cliente: Culture & Heritage Ministry, Ecuador
• Industrial Design: Juan Subia
• Textile Cover: AAMAXIMA, Ing. Hernan Arias + Ing. Marcelo Pazmiño
• Construction: Juan Carlos Castillo
• Infographics: Rolando González
• Design: 2012
• Construction: 2012
• Area: 36 m2