casas de esteros

English translation: reed houses

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Spanish term or phrase:casas de esteros
English translation:reed houses
Entered by: Wendy Gosselin

19:45 Dec 3, 2020
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Spanish term or phrase: casas de esteros
This is from a text about Fraces Alyses project in Lima "When Faith Moves Mountains"

Uno de los motivos fundamentales del proyecto consistió en plantearnos un diálogo con el modo en que la ausencia de planificación genera, no obstante, el tejido urbano de Latinoamérica. Ventanilla es un ejemplo cabal de algo que podríamos llamar urbanismo vernáculo: los inmigrantes demarcan con sus casas de esteros las calles donde, tiempo después, las autoridades se ven forzadas a crear servicios sanitarios, provisión de agua, y cableado eléctrico y de teléfono.

The houses are built on water?? Here estero seems like a material, like tin?
Wendy Gosselin
Argentina
Local time: 08:50
reed houses
Explanation:

Junco de esteras - Wikipedia, la enciclopedia librees.wikipedia.org › wiki › Junco_de_...
Junco de esteras puede referirse a: el nombre común de la planta Juncus ...
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patinba
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3 +1reed houses
patinba
2dilapidated houses
Barbara Cochran, MFA
2houses are made of mats
Domini Lucas
2reed shacks
neilmac
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dictionary references
Domini Lucas

  

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dilapidated houses


Explanation:
Maybe. Houses that are structurally compromised.

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Or "housing".

Barbara Cochran, MFA
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reed houses


Explanation:

Junco de esteras - Wikipedia, la enciclopedia librees.wikipedia.org › wiki › Junco_de_...
Junco de esteras puede referirse a: el nombre común de la planta Juncus ...

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houses are made of mats


Explanation:
Just wondering if it could in fact be "houses made of mats" as in link quoted here and at bottom of my dictionary references. I couldn't originally see how it could be linked to "estero" as matting, but this seems to make sense.

I confess I've only skimmed the rest of the article superficially, hence low confidence level.

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Note added at 3 hrs (2020-12-03 23:29:51 GMT)
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sorry I meant "houses made of mats" without "the". I cut and pasted from article originally.


    https://www.archdaily.com/890132/on-the-other-side-of-the-wall-of-shame-in-lima-peru
Domini Lucas
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reed shacks


Explanation:
Shacks or shanties made or reeds.

(like "chabolas"... with reeds as component material).


Example sentence(s):
  • ... without being able to afford much, I built a shack of reeds...
  • ...villagers erect little shanties of reeds, brushwood,etc....

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanty_town
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shack#:~:text=A%20shack%20(or%2C%20less%20often,rocks%2C%20sticks%2C%20etc.)
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Reference: dictionary references

Reference information:
If you're looking for a material, matting appears in Collins Spanish-to-English dictionary 2016 as a non-watery definition so it may provide an clue.
Also esterar to cover with a mat, put a mat on.

María Moliner: estero: "Operación de esterar", esterar also being recubrir de esteras el suelo de una habitación.

However, Moliner, for estero, together with estuary and other water-related definitions, also says terreno bajo pantanoso, intransitable, que suele llenarse de agua por la lluvia o por la filtración de un río o laguna cercana, y que abunda en plantas acuáticas. I wonder if suele llenarse de agua por la lluvia... may therefore hold a clue, which, presumably, links with Barbara's suggestion.

I don't know enough about the wider context to comment further, but passing the references on in case you don't already have access to them.

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I realised looking back that my attempt to put quotes in italics has failed. Apologies! I found it fiddly!

And, to clarify, matting was Collins rendering for estero.

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Just found this link which seems as if could be relevant? https://www.archdaily.com/890132/on-the-other-side-of-the-wa...

Keep scrolling down until you find "The houses are made of mats, tiles, plywood, wood, plastic and all kinds of recycled materials. "

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United Kingdom
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