African Arch. Beyond Media
AFRICAN ARCH. BEYOND MEDIA
Freddy Manengo
African Arch. Beyond Media
African Architecture Beyond Media Often seen as a vast jungle with bushes and dangerous animals all over, Africa is depicted as a undevelopped and dangerous continent with limited culture, limited intelligence and no nice architecture for people to experience. This project’s objective is to celebrate what the media fails to realize, which is a greatly developed and diverse African Architectural aesthetic.
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EKO ATLANTIC Eko Atlantic City or EAC, is being constructed on land reclaimed from the Atlantic Ocean. When completed, the new island is planned to have 250,000 residents and 150,000 commuters per day. The EAC is also being built to to stop the erosion of the Lagos coastline. Click photo for more info >>>>>>>>>>>>
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ARCHITECT: SOUTH ENERGYX NIDERIA LTD, CHAGOURY GROUP LOCATION: VICTORIA ISLAND, LAGOS, NIGERIA
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KONZA CITY “In 2008, the Government of Kenya approved the creation of Konza Technology City as a flagship Kenya Vision 2030 project. Konza will be a smart city, with an integrated urban information and communication technology (ICT) network that supports delivery of connected urban services and allows for efficient management of those services on a large scale.� Click Photo for More Info >>>>>
African Arch. Beyond Media ARCHITECT: SHOP ARCHITECTS LOCATION:
KONZA, KENYA
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CITY OF FLEUVE “La Cité du Fleuve began as a dream in early 2008. After geotechnical, hydrological and marketing reports by reputable experts confirmed the project’s viability, engineers and architects designed the islands while shareholders solicited support from all the major stakeholders. In June 2009 the long awaited reclamation and construction work began. Today, land is being reclaimed in preparation for a showhouse, which will be built while land for the rest of Phase 1 is being reclaimed.”
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ARCHITECT: HAWKWOOD PROPERTIES, MUKWA INVESTEMENT LOCATION: KINSHASA, DRCONGO
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Jack Travis: Notes on Black Architectural Aesthetic - Article Summary
Jack Travis thought about all the values of African (black culture). By observing black culture he found out what made it unique and stated the following traits as unique to African Architecture: – A special and particular appreciation and place in community for elders – Extended family ties dominant – Strong call and response connectivity between superior and subordinate – Resiliency and resourcefulness with less, making it seem like more and sustainable by ritual – Preoccupations with ritual, ceremony and celebration – Great use of energetic motions, extravagant costuming in dance – Preference towards a markedly louder audio pitch level – Strong indoor / outdoor relationship – Small scale and close proximity orientation – Tendency to be earth over man nurturing, as opposed to man over nature oriented – Intense use of color, pattern and texture – Penchant for commodity and a solid understanding of art as utility first and foremost He then made ten principles that allowed him to implement African culture into his architecture which are Economy, Simplicity, Ease of Construction, Ease of Maintenance, Spirituality, Heritage, Duality or Irony of the Condition, Earth Centered/Earth Nurturing, Strong Indoor/Outdoor Relationship and Intense Use of Color, Pattern & Texture.
ECONOMY
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SIMPLICITY
EASE OF CONSTRUCTION
EASE OF MAINTENANCE
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SPIRIRTUALITY
HERITAGE
DUALITY OR IRONY OF THE CONIDTION
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EARTH CENTERED/EARTH NURTURING.
STRONG INDOOR/OUTDOOR RELATIONSHIP
INTENSE USE OF COLOR, PATTERN & TEXTURE
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DAVID ADJAYE ARCHITECT: DAVID ADJAYE BORN: TANZANIA FIRM NAME: ADJAYE ASSOC. LOCATION: LONDON MAJOR PROJECTS :
-Whitechapel -Sugar Hill Developement -Sylvia Bongo Ondimba Foundation Headquarters
“David Adjaye is well known for his buildings across the northen hemisphere, he is using his considerable sway in the media to drive interest in African architecture. Recentely completing an extremely thorough research project across the whole of Africa, his buildings are marked by a COURTESY ADJAYE ASSOCIATES smart combination of Western and African influences.” Source
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FRANCIS KERE ARCHITECT: FRANCIS KERE BORN: BURKINA FASO FIRM NAME: KERE ARCH. LOCATION: GERMANY MAJOR PROJECTS :
-School Library Gando -National Park of Mali -Centre de Sante de Promotion Sociale
“Francis Kere was offered a scholarship by a German charity for carpentry, he used this opportunity to train in architecture instead, before returning to his home village of Gando where his combination of western training and local knowledge has produced a series of innovative buildings that have dramatically improved conditions.” Source
COURTESY LAFARGE HOLCIM FOUNDATION
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Related Links: firm website Presentation water & the city project
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KUNLE ADEYEMI ARCHITECT: KUNLE ADEYEMI BORN: NIGERIA FIRM NAME: NLE LOCATION: THE NE MAJOR PROJECTS :
Makolo Floating School Chicoco Radion Station THe Lush Mabushi Residential Dev.
“Challeging the perception that to modernize is to westernize, Adeyemi’s innovative contributions to architecture on both the academic and built level are based on the assumption that problems can be solved using methods developed by those facing the problem; something he deployed with aplomb with Photo Source his series of floating buildings.” Source
COURTESY TED(X)
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Related Links: Firm website Design Studion
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M. MOROJELE ARCHITECT: MPHETHI MOROJELE BORN: LESOTHO FIRM NAME: MMA LOCATION: SOUTH AFRICA MAJOR PROJECTS :
10x10 houses the South African Embassy,berlin. Pretoria Freedom Park
“Building the first South african embassies since the end of the apartheid rule, Morojele is key in articulating an architectural vision of post-apartheid South Africa. his work in incorporating South African culture into an international context has been highly successful, as have his dignified reconstruction projects.” Source
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Related Links: Firm website Exposition Democracy & design
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M. MAKEKA ARCHITECT: MOKENA MAKEKA BORN: SOUTH AFRICA FIRM NAME: MAKEKA DESIGN LAB LOCATION: SOUTH AFRICA MAJOR PROJECTS :
Cap Town Station Thusong Services center Greenpoint Stadium
“Part of a new generation of South African aechitects, Makeka’s career has been built on a dealing with the legacy of apartheid on a personal and professional level. Designing for those left behind by both the old and new South Africa. Makeka’s designs encourage participation from all.” Source COURTESY MAKEKA DESIGN LAB
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