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EIGHT PRICIPLES OF SPATIAL ORGANIZATION

  • Jul 27 2021
  • Sénamé Koffi Agbodjinou
    is an architect and anthropologist who created the collaborative research platform on the issues of architecture and the African city 'L'Africaine d'architecture'. He leads the network of WoeLabs (African Spaces of Technological Democracy), atypical places that make it possible to pool intelligences and mix different populations adopting practices with low environmental impact.

 

1.
FIGURE OF GESTATION
The permanence in African
architecture of symbols, of
coupling, parturient, fetal, etc
...

2.
ANTHROPOMORPHISM
The house, and the space have
systematic figures and
attributes of a human, an
"Anatomy of architecture" !

3.
DIFFERENTIALITY
The space is sexed or gendered.
worked from male / female tension
... never neutral, divided,
hierarchized or stratified. This
friction produces rythm, beauty
by contrast ... puts architecture
in motion.

4.
GYRATION
Organization is rotating.
Volutes, concentrism, turns: this
movement which makes rise; also
does the house aspire to ...

5.
FRACTALS
The inifnite repetition of
everything in the detail ... The
calabash is the village bound on
itself 'n' times. the deployment
is "logical", consistent ...
care to spare all parties at each
change of scale. The house is the
teenager of the calabash whose
village is the figure of old.

6.
PANOPTICON
All points of view converge in
the African space. The house is
the place where everything is
said. everything is under the
gaze of everyone.

7.
TOTALITY / COSMO ARCHITECTURE
The place is complete. Nothing
is missing. Desire for finitude.
ambition to summarize the
world. Full companianship where
plants, animals, minerals, sky,
earth, air, water ... Order /
Complementarity / Completeness /

8.
UNITY
"Everything is one!" Principle of
inextricability of principles.
Cohesion where we do not
distinguish ...

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