Architects:
Michelle Vasconcelos Design & Art Studio
Location: Kwanza Sul, Quibala,
Angola
Project Team: Collaboration: Equipo 01 Architects, Consultants: GV 408 Architects, Rafael French (structures); Esdicain
Interior Décor: Michelle Vasconcelos Design & Art Studio
Project Year: 2013
Photographer: Michelle Vasconcelos Design & Art Studio
Website: www.michellevasconcelos.com
From the Project Architects:
In all aspects description, the market of Quibala which is a Municipality in Angola was literally transported from Spain in sea containers.
From the very start, the project was marked by the need to optimize the space inside the containers, and the solution adopted was a system of trusses with dimensions making it possible to ship forty-six of them, packed in pairs, in a single container. That is, the 30 square meters within the container could take in the 1,800 square meters of the building’s sheds.
The result was a completely modular system with the flexibility to adapt to the changing needs of a marketplace.
Form wise, the roofs of undulating sheet metal were placed in such a way that openings were created, and these were closed up with panels of translucent poly-carbonate for light to enter through, while louvers on the facade facilitate ventilation and give the building a chromatic character of strong local reminiscences, accompanied by powerful graphics that help the predominantly illiterate local population identify the selling areas.
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