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The Currency Museum of Angola
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Costa Lopes The Currency Museum of Angola [/vc_column_text][edgtf_separator type="normal" position="center" color="rgba(255,255,255,0.01)" top_margin="29" bottom_margin="0"][vc_column_text el_class="caseta"] Location Luanda, Angola Architect Costa Lopes Project type Cultural Gross floor
Costa Lopes
The Currency Museum of Angola
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Location
Luanda, Angola
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Architect
Costa Lopes
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Project type
Cultural
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Gross floor area
4 794 sqm
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Construction period
2012-2015
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Photographs
Fabrice Fouillet
The new Currency Museum is located on the waterfront of Luanda, just in the heart of the city, nearby the headquarters of the National Bank of Angola. The situation became pretext for two major architectural gestures. On one hand, it places the museum spaces below ground, allowing them to become more reserved and quiet. On the other, its roof establishes a new urban square that emphasizes the public dimension of Luanda’s waterfront.
The new museum, with a built surface of about 4800 square meters, reveals itself in the space generated by excavation, with its entry announced by the stairs’ void and the metallic parasols that generate shadow and urban scale. It includes two exhibition areas (permanent and temporary), complemented by public areas and an auditorium to support learning activities. At the surface, the stone-paved urban square generates a subtle topography justified by the bay views and the nearby context, thereby redesigning a public space open to
the city and community life.
