Ameba Branch by BAUEN: A Brick Manifesto in Paraguay

The Ameba Branch, designed by Paraguayan architecture firm BAUEN, is a 408 m² service building completed in 2025. Curated by Valentina Díaz, the project reimagines a bank as an ecosystem of trust rather than a conventional structure. The design features a floating roof made of thousands of bricks, creating an open, hierarchy-free architecture that is accessible from all sides. The team, led by Aldo Cristaldo and including designers Saúl Acosta, Ana Ponti, and Juan Romero, as well as technical staff Tamara Pappalardo, Hernán Morínigo, and Nilze Cantero, describes the amoeba as a statement of principles—a manifesto in brick that transforms the technical into the poetic. The building breathes with the climate and embraces its surroundings instead of imposing.