The present research seeks, from the key of controlling nature, to contribute to an imaginary of possibilities for architectures of coexistence with nature. For this, the dissertation goes through the origin of the creation of the scientific method as a way of operating in the world and controlling nature for human well-being and places architecture as a discipline and civil construction as protagonists of the current climate crisis that is a direct consequence, but not only, in this way of controlling nature. To begin the search for an architecture that negotiates with nature, seeking to live with it, the research is based on the concepts of seasonality elaborated by Hilan Bensusan and Carlos Mondragon and the habitability defended by Dipesh Chakrabarty. Finally, the dissertation approaches two emblematic examples of water control in the city of Rio de Janeiro with the landfills of Flamengo and the landfills of Maré. Pointing out the transition of the city that lived closer to its waters until the 19th century and then began to systematically deny such coexistence. In this process of denial, some practices of resistance by the population of Maré are presented as possibilities and guarantee of a minimum contact with water.