Usually representing spirits, ancestors or the primordial couple, these figures were placed in shrines and treated with great respect. Through a wide range of style, scale, belief and function the couples depicted share a timeless, serene equality necessary to the continuity of their societies.

Dyeji Building / Costalopes

Architects: Costalopes
Location: Luanda, Angola
Interior Décor: Costalopes
Project Year: 2015
Photographer: Fabrice Fouillet
Website: www.costalopes.com

- 30 January 2017
- Datum Editorial
Residential , Urban Renewal , Urban Architecture , Urban , Selected Works ,

From the Architects;
The Dyeji Building is part of the Bay of Luanda Parcel 3 development scheme located at the narrowest part of the Ilha do Cabo promontory. The scheme consists of a total of 57 plots (its limits being marked by the Hotel da Marinha in the north-east and the Clube Náutico in the south-west).

Dyeji Building / Costalopes

This mixed use building (housing and offices) is on one of the most central blocks in the development, providing excellent views over the coastline.

Dyeji Building / Costalopes

If one sees architecture as an excellent guide and storyteller (where each work has something to tell from generation to generation, and is always surrounded in a mystery of collusion with space and time), one could say that the geometric zigzag form of the Dyeji building creates a markedly rhythmic dialogue.

Dyeji Building / Costalopes
In the design of the building, which has 1 office floor and 7 residential floors, the asymmetry of the façade planes together with the somewhat angular windows make for an expressive corpus that can be likened to a huge music staff. Over the course of the day, the sunlight creates and recreates a multiplicity of games of light and shade, bringing to life this great partiture that presents variations of scales, metre signatures, interruptions and silences.

Dyeji Building / Costalopes

In the interior (which provides space for 28 apartments, each with either 2 or 3 aspects) one finds a refined narrative in the form of ample multiplication of visual perspectives over the horseshoe of the bay coastline and the city skyline.

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1st Congress Tower / Costalopes
The 1st Congress Tower is located in Luanda, the capital of Angola. The project equates itself around four fundamental conditions: the program for a banking institution - corporate and generic offices but with a socio-cultural area - with an inevitable intensive occupation of the available plo...

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