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- Title
Design with Climate in Africa. The World of Galleries- Brise-Soleil and Beta Windows.
- Authors
Caldas, João Vieira
- Abstract
IN the twenty-five years after World War II, Angola and Mozambique were fertile territories for the inception of new urban and architectural projects, in keeping with the principles of the Modern Movement. In the earliest works designed by the architects who moved there in the late 1940s, one can already witness a serious concern with the adjustment to the particularities of the hot and humid climate of the tropics. The Modern architectural idiom was particularly well suited to the local climate building requirements such as solar control and provision of adequate ventilation. Moreover, these architectural solutions were underpinned by sustainable procedures that ought to be re-established in the restoration of Modern buildings of the type presented here.
- Subjects
AFRICA; BRISES soleils (Architecture); MODERN architecture; PRESERVATION of architecture; HUMIDITY; SOLAR control films; AIRTIGHTNESS of buildings; CLIMATOLOGY
- Publication
Docomomo Journal, 2011, Issue 44, p16
- ISSN
1380-3204
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.52200/44.a.8f2dxu59