Invited by Ghost Creative Productions, Colectivo Warehouse integrated a team of artists for the realization of an Arts and Ecology festival at Licée Galandou Diouf, a public school in the center of Dakar.
The project’s main objective was to awaken the young students and the entire school community to environmental awareness through Art.
During two weeks in residence, Colectivo Warehouse developed a project in the Library and its surrounding area. Starting by redesigning the interior layout of the existing library, the primary objective was to introduce students to architectural tools. From that point on, the conditions were created for us to start working with a group of kids and codesigning a "new" library, a new space for reading and studying made with, and for, the students.
Through the a collection of local wood waste/scraps, the school students were able to create and build a whole new structure based on circular economy. This structure is built from a small auditorium, nestled by the adjacent tree, where children can have their own "private" space in the school playground.
Project by: Colectivo Warehouse
Me: Design; Carpentry and Tutoring
The project’s main objective was to awaken the young students and the entire school community to environmental awareness through Art.
During two weeks in residence, Colectivo Warehouse developed a project in the Library and its surrounding area. Starting by redesigning the interior layout of the existing library, the primary objective was to introduce students to architectural tools. From that point on, the conditions were created for us to start working with a group of kids and codesigning a "new" library, a new space for reading and studying made with, and for, the students.
Through the a collection of local wood waste/scraps, the school students were able to create and build a whole new structure based on circular economy. This structure is built from a small auditorium, nestled by the adjacent tree, where children can have their own "private" space in the school playground.
Project by: Colectivo Warehouse
Me: Design; Carpentry and Tutoring
The heart as the biological central piece of the unconscious Human and its association with raw emotions; its continuous pumping, pushing the blood through the circulatory system, by rhythmic contraction, creating an endless flux.
Alchemy Circle as the heart of Boom Festival 2022 is a place of fluidity with it’s open plan, allowing for a free immersive experience in the dance floor; a place of connection where the veins act as portals purposefully aligned with the strongest elements in Boom Land: the lake, the sky, the forest and the sunset, connecting the outside to the innermost space of the dancefloor; a place of grounding where the tall arches reach the sky and come down discharging their energy in the earth, forming the shape of the heart coming out of the land.
The skin that covers the structure is a fragmented mesh of polygons that creates a sense of direction towards the artist performing. The overlapping of different layers, shapes and colors of the skin promotes continuous air flow inside the structure and protects dancers from the sun.
Throughout the inside space, the wooden arches and skin layers come alive with the light and sound design, immersing boomers in a collective and pulsating rhythmic experience.
Project by: Colectivo Warehouse + Boom Festival
Me: Concept Design; Techinical Drawings and Project Coordination
Alchemy Circle as the heart of Boom Festival 2022 is a place of fluidity with it’s open plan, allowing for a free immersive experience in the dance floor; a place of connection where the veins act as portals purposefully aligned with the strongest elements in Boom Land: the lake, the sky, the forest and the sunset, connecting the outside to the innermost space of the dancefloor; a place of grounding where the tall arches reach the sky and come down discharging their energy in the earth, forming the shape of the heart coming out of the land.
The skin that covers the structure is a fragmented mesh of polygons that creates a sense of direction towards the artist performing. The overlapping of different layers, shapes and colors of the skin promotes continuous air flow inside the structure and protects dancers from the sun.
Throughout the inside space, the wooden arches and skin layers come alive with the light and sound design, immersing boomers in a collective and pulsating rhythmic experience.
Project by: Colectivo Warehouse + Boom Festival
Me: Concept Design; Techinical Drawings and Project Coordination
Nomad Base Camp is a prefab temporary 100m2 building, created to support CLARA’s international workshops. It’s a modular system created to be fast, adaptable, and with no impact on the site.
The architectural language of the Nomad base Camp introduces a contemporary image, based on a concise and clean design, where the volumetric shape interconnects harmoniously with the surroundings of the old brick factory, with a strong presence on the site.
The design of continuous one-pitch roofs is allusive to the shape of the roof of the brick factory and its slopes are determined to increase the energy efficiency of solar equipment, responsible for capturing and generating energy that leads to the self-sufficiency of this equipment.
Project by: Colectivo Warehouse + Forja
Me: Concept; Design and Build
The design of continuous one-pitch roofs is allusive to the shape of the roof of the brick factory and its slopes are determined to increase the energy efficiency of solar equipment, responsible for capturing and generating energy that leads to the self-sufficiency of this equipment.
Project by: Colectivo Warehouse + Forja
Me: Concept; Design and Build
Precarious shacks without water and sanitation are the homes and lifestyle of nearly 500 people - about 30% children - who live in an informal settlement in Costa da Caparica. This neighbourhood, called Terras da Costa, has been inhabited for thirty years by these people.
Terras da Costa is an isolated territory, invisible to most people, where the locals feel forgotten except for frequent severe police interventions. Many of the families use campfires to cook inside or near their homes, which is a public safety hazard in neighbourhood without water.
This project was conceived and designed by means of an extensive and highly participatory process, in which the communities of Terras da Costa were always present and actively involved in the discussion. The construction process was accompanied by activities aimed at helping the community acquire tools to manage and develop the kitchen, its utility rules and regulations, users rights and duties.
A broad international team of architects, urbanists, carpenters, artists, social mediators, as well as a growing number of volunteers have joined the project, making it bigger and better. The simple wooden framing technique and the numerous activities around the building site allow everyone to become part of the project.
The construction becomes a moment for knowledge-sharing and hands-on learning.
Project by: Colectivo Warehouse + Ateliermob Me: Concept, Design, Participatory Methodologies and Build
Terras da Costa is an isolated territory, invisible to most people, where the locals feel forgotten except for frequent severe police interventions. Many of the families use campfires to cook inside or near their homes, which is a public safety hazard in neighbourhood without water.
This project was conceived and designed by means of an extensive and highly participatory process, in which the communities of Terras da Costa were always present and actively involved in the discussion. The construction process was accompanied by activities aimed at helping the community acquire tools to manage and develop the kitchen, its utility rules and regulations, users rights and duties.
A broad international team of architects, urbanists, carpenters, artists, social mediators, as well as a growing number of volunteers have joined the project, making it bigger and better. The simple wooden framing technique and the numerous activities around the building site allow everyone to become part of the project.
The construction becomes a moment for knowledge-sharing and hands-on learning.
Project by: Colectivo Warehouse + Ateliermob Me: Concept, Design, Participatory Methodologies and Build
“The Arch” was a cultural project developed in a research and technological park in the Waterschei mine, located in Genk, Belgium.
Constructlab coordinated this project, a European network that Warehouse is part of. The project took place between May and September and as a Colectivo Warehouse's member I participated in the construction phase.
In the activation phase the space worked as a temporary research laboratory focused on the infinite possibilities of creation with recycled plastic.
With several participants, guests and a festival program, the second phase of the building’s life was marked by its daily use as a place for socializing, meeting and appropriation by the local community.
Project by: Constructlab
Me: Carpentry and Builder
Constructlab coordinated this project, a European network that Warehouse is part of. The project took place between May and September and as a Colectivo Warehouse's member I participated in the construction phase.
In the activation phase the space worked as a temporary research laboratory focused on the infinite possibilities of creation with recycled plastic.
With several participants, guests and a festival program, the second phase of the building’s life was marked by its daily use as a place for socializing, meeting and appropriation by the local community.
Project by: Constructlab
Me: Carpentry and Builder