Welcome to the blog of the architecture students of Eduardo Mundlane university of Maputo, Boukunde University of Pretoria and the architecture faculty of the TU-Delft in The Netherlands.

This blog is a joint venture organized around the graduation project to Revitalize the Baixa de Maputo.

The Baixa is the oldest part of Maputo and is under current threat of new insensitive development. The old buildings are diminishing and the area is losing its historic identity.

The combination of the three universities is a unique way to create a dialogue between different countries and their ways of working.

The driving force behind the realisation of this studio has been and still is the organization "African Architecture Matters". See the link in the menu below.

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

In Maputo kick off

Tuesday 21 February the Maputo project had its kick off. The joint venture between Eduardo Mundlane university of Maputo, Boukunde University of Pretoria and TU-Delft began their field research. An introduction to the Baixa de Maputo and the first lecture by Nicholas Clarke and Karel Bakker introduced us to the project.

Picture from top building near Samora Machel: Author Micha van Boheemen, TU-Delft

After a tour in the Baixa groups were formed and everybody began to focus to create a strategy how to revitalize the Baixa de Maputo.
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