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Embaixada Di Performa

- Rodrigues, Ricardo

Authors: Rodrigues, Ricardo
Date: 2016
Subjects: Music and architecture - Cabo Verde
Language: English
Type: Masters (Thesis)
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/226126 , uj:22855
Description: M.Tech. (Architectural Technology) , Abstract: My name is Ricardo Rodrigues and I am fascinated in the relationship between sound and architecture. My year began with a series of explorations into sound and performance, and performance in space. Through short exercises looking at routes through and in the city, I began to build up a vocabulary of sound, space and performance at different scales and in different contexts. The field trip to Cape Verde, lead me to exploring the local culture through their music. Being of Portuguese descent myself, the ability to converse in the local language gave me a unique insight into certain aspects of Cape Verdean culture. The importance of local artists in Cape Verde – as opposed to imported international music –seemed to be one striking and important aspect of their musical culture and heritage. My Major Design Project, the Embaixado Di Performa proposes an architecture derived from sound.I’d like to take you through the chosen site and show how I’ve interpreted sound in terms of form, structure and materiality. Sucupira, the largest market in Praia, the capital city of Cape Verde, has the highest daily foot traffic rate of anywhere in the city. It is a thronging, bustling marketplace, full of life, colour, sound and noise. Using sound, performance, melody and rhythm, it is my intention to stage an intervention in the heart of Sucupira that both explores and exposes the relationship between music and architecture in new and unexpected ways. Bernhard Leinter said that, ‘The the fundamental phenomenon of sound is its development in time. Architecture is basically static; time is introduced through changes in daylight, periods of different intensity of noise and above all, through the movement of people. Sound-architecture is, in its essence, an event of temporal development. Space is developed gradually in time. But it is not a space, it is a constant sequence of spaces.’
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Caravanserai : Farm 2020

- Almond, Julian

Authors: Almond, Julian
Date: 2015
Subjects: Memorials - Zanzibar - Design and construction , Farms - Zanzibar , Chapwani Island (Zanzibar) , Architecture and society , Death in art , Collective memory in art , Plants - Zanzibar - Religious aspects
Language: English
Type: Masters (Thesis)
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/55829 , uj:16315
Description: Abstract: This minor dissertation studies the relationship between Nature and Culture in an architectural sense. Chapwani Island, a small coral Island just off the West coast of Zanzibar is the case study of this investigation. The small cemetery occupies notions of memory, ritual and cultivation. The term ‘creole’ is a word that describes the wonderfully colourful cultural melting pot of Stone Town. Zanzibar is a place where culture and heritage are embodied in religion and ritual. Chapwani Island has the potential to become a cemetery of sorts, where Nature and Culture manifest into a farm that specialises in ritualistic plant material that celebrates the death ritual. , M.Tech. (Architecture)
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