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Angola Central Highlands University
Recently we were invited to participate in an international competition to develop a University Campus in Angola.
In the brief there were three elements to be considered: the use of the fractal scale, something called the pools of light and the sustainability.
The pools light were a conceptual idea from the clients that came from an image that they had from a trip to the site and it is something common happening at night in Angola that it is a bunch of students under a street light studying.
We incorporated this idea in the project, as reference points for the master plan that will represent knowledge and wisdom. They are more intense at the heart of the campus and become more diffuse to meet the surrounding environment.
We found this idea even cooler when we researched about the local fractal patterns and we found this one, the lusona drawings. This traditional drawing from Angola is done tracing lines around points on the sand and it fit very well with the idea of the pools of light.
We thought it was very appropriate to use this to draw the master plan of a university because the lusona tradition represents an important role in transmitting and communicating knowledge and wisdom from one generation to the next.
The heart of the campus is the Windom Center, where all the layers of information meet. Here intersect the two main axes of the campus, Learning and Living that diminish through a network of paths. The main axes accommodate pedestrian circulation as well bicycle and service ways for a line of solar generated mini bus and service cars.
The whole campus is independent from external resources incorporating solar panels to use the most abundant source of energy. The paths are shaded and protected from the rain with a network of pergolas.
Like in many countries in Africa, Angola has a rainy season and a sunny season and it is an important to recycle and reuse water, as well as limit the wastage of water as much as possible. Water canals will take an important role in the landscape design and will serve to irrigate the kitchen gardens and greenery next to the residential buildings. Planted grasses mix with native greenery to colonize the building and bond it to the setting.
In the brief there were three elements to be considered: the use of the fractal scale, something called the pools of light and the sustainability.
The pools light were a conceptual idea from the clients that came from an image that they had from a trip to the site and it is something common happening at night in Angola that it is a bunch of students under a street light studying.
We incorporated this idea in the project, as reference points for the master plan that will represent knowledge and wisdom. They are more intense at the heart of the campus and become more diffuse to meet the surrounding environment.
We found this idea even cooler when we researched about the local fractal patterns and we found this one, the lusona drawings. This traditional drawing from Angola is done tracing lines around points on the sand and it fit very well with the idea of the pools of light.
We thought it was very appropriate to use this to draw the master plan of a university because the lusona tradition represents an important role in transmitting and communicating knowledge and wisdom from one generation to the next.
The heart of the campus is the Windom Center, where all the layers of information meet. Here intersect the two main axes of the campus, Learning and Living that diminish through a network of paths. The main axes accommodate pedestrian circulation as well bicycle and service ways for a line of solar generated mini bus and service cars.
The whole campus is independent from external resources incorporating solar panels to use the most abundant source of energy. The paths are shaded and protected from the rain with a network of pergolas.
Like in many countries in Africa, Angola has a rainy season and a sunny season and it is an important to recycle and reuse water, as well as limit the wastage of water as much as possible. Water canals will take an important role in the landscape design and will serve to irrigate the kitchen gardens and greenery next to the residential buildings. Planted grasses mix with native greenery to colonize the building and bond it to the setting.
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