In Angola’s capital, Luanda, every space simultaneously performs a diversity of programs: each space is constantly becoming other from itself thus turning the city into a morphing conurbation that resists any “zoning.” By avoiding any radical destruction of the urban fabric, the plantation of Arundo Donax in the interstitial space between buildings produces a new urban condition. Simultaneously garden and infrastructure for filtering waters and producing biomass for electricity, this energetic “common ground” develops an alternative method of imagining the African city.
This is "Beyond Entropy Angola", a documentary by Pedro Lino about the making of the first Angolan National Pavilion at the 2012 Venice Architecture Biennale. Shot over the Summer of 2012, it goes to show how one simple (and brilliant) idea may very well change the future sustainability of developing countries. And maybe the rest of the world as well.
