Currency Museum
The new Currency Museum is located on the waterfront of Luanda, just in the heart of the city downtown, nearby the charismatic headquarters of the National Bank of Angola.
Courtesy of Costa Lopes – Photography: Fabrice Fouillet
The purpose was pretext for two major interventions. On one hand, it disposes the museum spaces below ground, becoming more reserved and quiet. On the other, its roof establishes a new urban square that both denotes the museum and enables the celebration of public space, in some way expanding the new public spaces of Luanda’s waterfront.
Courtesy of Costa Lopes – Photography: Fabrice Fouillet
The new museum, with about 4.800 sqm, reveals itself in the stereotomy 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.
Courtesy of Costa Lopes – Photography: Fabrice Fouillet
On the surface, the stone paved urban square generates a subtle topography justified by the bay views and the nearby context, allowing rest, pathways, diverse public equipment and redesigning its central ambition as a public space open to the city and the community life.
Courtesy of Costa Lopes – Photography: Fabrice Fouillet
Project Info
Architects: Costa Lopes
Location: Luanda, Angola
Area: 4794.0 sqm
Year: 2015
Type: Museum
Photographs: Fabrice Fouillet
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