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.

Thursday, April 28, 2011

P1 presentation Sjoerd

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In four weeks Maputo, points of interest have been accumulating and translated to text and image. In order to get grip on these subjects, the cacophony of ideas were filtered to a residue of 3 projects that overlap each other in a certain area, and totally differ in other parts. The challenge that is being faced at this point of the design process is the decision what role these three will play in the subject of the final project. Within the spectrum of the physical, social, political, economical and environmental subjects that these projects touch upon the degree of intervention has to be determined.
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  1. ByronApril 28, 2011 at 6:25 AM

    sjoerd! Now that you have a big Dutch Dyke, where is the bicycle lane?

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