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.
CONGRESS
CENTER
CONGRESS CENTER / OFFICES / ADMINISTRATION
The area of implementation of this project is located in the noble area of the city, 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. The bodies that finish the drawing respect the exterior scale, as continuity of the physical support that is the history of the city. The interior architectural bodies have the scale of a center of a metropolitan city.
Therefore, the public square will have a catalytic role in promoting the meeting culture/business/leisure. Thence its character of open space and aggregator of the adjacent buildings.
The multipurpose building integrates, in this space, the various valences, offering companies and their staff an integrated service for their short and medium term needs. Its entire base is reserved for shops and restaurants, serving in a wide way the city and ensuring the dynamisation of this complex at various times of the day.
LOCATION
Luanda, Angola
YEAR
2006
IMPLANTATION
AREA
2128 m²
SQUARE FOOTAGE OF THE LOT
3881 m²