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.
This single-family house located in the Vila Alice neighbourhood in Luanda dates to the 1950s. The garden facing the interior of the lot was overloaded with a huge roof, several annex buildings supporting the mother house, flower pots, exposed air conditioners, in a concentration of elements that made the environment messy and full of visual noise.
The project of all accesses, the outdoor living areas and gardens, consisted in redesigning all of them. We created panels/scenes in light boxes, vinyl coated with a floral composition in various shades of gray, in front of all the annexes (leaving a circulation walk behind the panels.). These 3 meters high panels created an L-shaped scenic front of the entire back garden. We eliminate the big roof and created a plafond of shade all over the rear facade, under which a living room and outdoor dining is organized.
From the main access of the house to this area, walkways and gardens were drawn in a very marked sequence by a white travertine floor, like a horizontal painting, and planes coated with textured limestone that mark and direct the circulation between the multi-level gardens.
LOCATION
Luanda, Angola
YEAR
REMODELING
MANUELA DAVID
HOUSING EXTERIORS
2008/
2009
INTERVENTION
AREA
432.75 m ²