The Sona drawings, plural of Lusona, were part of the tradition of the Tchokwe People. It is known in eastern Angola and close to the borders of Zambia and Congo. The drawings were made in the sand only by men, as a way to tell a story or show the reality of them (with representations of daily, nature, animals and people). It was part of the boys' rite of passage to adulthood to learn to draw Sona and tell stories.
Mathematical concepts such as Combinatorial Analysis, Minimum Common Multiple and Maximum Common Divisor were used instinctively, since the Tchokwe people had no knowledge of the formulas and math of the graphs. First, the soil was cleaned and flattened with the hand, and with the fingertips it was drawn an grid of points with carefully proportional spaces. Subsequently, the narrator traced lines - straight and curves with a 45 degree inclination - around the points without taking his fingers from the sand until finishing the drawing.
The Sona drawings, plural of Lusona, were part of the tradition of the Tchokwe People. It is known in eastern Angola and close to the borders of Zambia and Congo. The drawings were made in the sand only by men, as a way to tell a story or show the reality of them (with representations of daily, nature, animals and people). It was part of the boys' rite of passage to adulthood to learn to draw Sona and tell stories.
Mathematical concepts such as Combinatorial Analysis, Minimum Common Multiple and Maximum Common Divisor were used instinctively, since the Tchokwe people had no knowledge of the formulas and math of the graphs. First, the soil was cleaned and flattened with the hand, and with the fingertips it was drawn an grid of points with carefully proportional spaces. Subsequently, the narrator traced lines - straight and curves with a 45 degree inclination - around the points without taking his fingers from the sand until finishing the drawing.
The Sona drawings, plural of Lusona, were part of the tradition of the Tchokwe People. It is known in eastern Angola and close to the borders of Zambia and Congo. The drawings were made in the sand only by men, as a way to tell a story or show the reality of them (with representations of daily, nature, animals and people). It was part of the boys' rite of passage to adulthood to learn to draw Sona and tell stories.
Mathematical concepts such as Combinatorial Analysis, Minimum Common Multiple and Maximum Common Divisor were used instinctively, since the Tchokwe people had no knowledge of the formulas and math of the graphs. First, the soil was cleaned and flattened with the hand, and with the fingertips it was drawn an grid of points with carefully proportional spaces. Subsequently, the narrator traced lines - straight and curves with a 45 degree inclination - around the points without taking his fingers from the sand until finishing the drawing.
FEATURED PROJECTS
The area of implementation of this project is located in downtown Luanda, near the marginal. From the strictly urban point of view, it is intended to value the place and make it a public reference, proposing a set of buildings of contemporary matrix that, as a whole, integrate the functional valences typically urban: the cultural, the public, the professional and the commercial. These buildings live for a public interiror square, which articulates the different experiences. Read more
The building was thought as three units of diverse formal languages that made a gradient of languages between the current Bank building and the Finance building. Body A, was designed with a classic language to let the emblematic piece that is the Bank shine and not impose itself on it. Body B, rises from within Body A and forms the side of the block. The Body C is a body of contemporary language, transparent and metallic, which allows this Body B to breathe. Read more
Urban Plan - Draw urban mesh in order to empower the region, betting on the performance of the population, on the vocations of the city, cultures and capacities versus economic development. The plan contemplates two towers (Hotel and Office Center), Cinema-Auditorium, Commercial Area, Exhibition Centers and Buildings of Services and Housing.
PUBLICATIONS & PARTICIPATIONS
Book: "The Modernity Ignored - Modern Architecture of Luanda"
TEDx Luanda Conference - Informal: The Drive to Luanda
Novo Jornal - interview: "More than growth, Luanda needs urban quality"