Renewal-Zone：金属桶盖与建筑的人文新生│西非CNAD国立艺术工艺设计中心
Centro Nacional Arte Artesanato e Design, CNAD
CNAD国立艺术工艺设计中心位于佛得角港口城市明德卢，这里的藏品均为手工制作，从名字到功能都是如此；更重要的是，在当地手工制作意味着将公共资金分配给岛上的工匠，这也是当地政府努力的结果。因此这里实现了一个公共中心建筑的主要功能，造福于社区。从材料到饰面的每一个设计抉择都致力于达成这一目标。
Photographer: Sergio Pirrone
世界的这一区域，从手工劳动到机械化的工业变革正在慢慢开始。手工作业仍是主流，每天工匠们为人们打造各种制品。找工匠打造一件家具、一扇门或是一些座椅，然后耐心地等待完成，感知以必要的努力用心打造的物品背后的灵巧在这里非常普遍。CNAD的每一个建造元素也是这种类型手工艺的凝结，整个建筑是一个伟大的手工艺品。
Photographer: Sergio Pirrone
在简易工具型的机器辅助下，建造和安装工作完全由人工完成。清水混凝土由娴熟的木匠用不同类型的木材和层板加固。木质框架在工匠的作坊中用切割机和打磨机制作完成，然而手工元素仍然占据主导地位。金属结构由工匠安装、焊接和组装预制构件，其中2532个从旧金属桶回收的桶皮经过喷砂和手工喷漆后铆接其中，一个个构成了充满活力、色彩缤纷的通风立面。
在这些岛屿的生活里，回收利用是不可或缺的文化。人们知晓如何珍惜每一种资源。空桶从不会被浪费，会被拆开并改造成金属皮来覆盖房屋、用作混凝土浇筑的模板，以及重新制作成锅和刀具。将它们用作修复的基础材料听起来是完美的创意。在新建筑中——与作为参议员Augusto Pereira Vera-Cruz住所打造的殖民地房屋一起经过修复后改造为一所高中，后成为历史悠久的Barlavento广播电台的总部所在地，西莎莉亚在此录制了她的第一首歌曲。在泥瓦匠和木工的共同努力下，这一由当地手工匠人所打造的伟大作品得以完成。尽管不完美之处清晰可见，但这些瑕疵也成为了附加的价值，传递出一种独特的手工艺感。
Photographer: Sergio Pirrone
这种不完美将人的工作与机械生产区分出来，表达了人们希望无限接近完美的渴望，既呈现了对完美的追求也体现了人的本质。正是这种人性化的内容将构筑物转变为建筑，因为没有人的建筑是空洞的。远离任何虚伪的修饰或对短暂的媒体热度的追求，做建筑始终专注于设计一座简洁的建筑，以清晰的力学、被动的降温系统和原本将运去填埋场的回收材料打造，并致力于通过工艺、艺术和文化的项目来推动当地手工业的发展，以从中产生的经济造福于人们。
Photographer: Sergio Pirrone
色彩中暗含着乐谱，每一种颜色都隐藏着音符。建筑师想要利用这种联觉感知，因此邀请了作曲家、演奏家Vasco Martins参与其中，谱写出隐藏在色彩背后的音乐，以此向岛上的传统音乐致敬，并将其作为可视的音乐欢乐传递给广场。
Photographer: Sergio Pirrone
每一种先锋派都由人开启，而非地理主导。宇宙的中心可以位于宇宙的任何区域。对于CNAD项目，建筑师的灵感来源于居住在明德卢的市民，从佛得角解决难题的方式到奇尔斯托和珍妮·克劳德的桶形雕塑等多方面。
Photographer: Sergio Pirrone
建筑师始终寻求和谐，希望人们通过他们想象和打造的建筑获得快乐，这种快乐也将以多种方式回归他们身旁。
Photographer: Sergio Pirrone
“对于我们来说，位于非洲佛得角明德卢的CNAD项目是一场建筑的呐喊。我们在佛得角的目标之一，就是让建筑脱离西方范式，向人们展示出这不是所谓建筑中的第三世界；从这个角度而言，既然建筑都是由人所打造，我们同样不该区分第三世界，事实上只有一种人类，所有的色彩都能够和谐共存。”
Photographer: Sergio Pirrone
功能性的外皮可以像百叶窗一样倾斜，有助于保持室内的温度。“不同用途的回收桶盖的使用，也彰显出一个物体可以拥有多种用途和多次生命，仅取决于观察者的心理灵活性。在我们的项目中，我们尝试用材料来改变认知。”
Photographer: Sergio Pirrone
位于非洲佛得角的RamosCastellano建筑事务所从第一个作品起便致力于用建筑和材料改变人们的认知。事务所的每一个作品都将艺术、自然、社会竞争、当地知识、生物和技术融合。国际化的团队诞生于建筑师Eloisa Ramos和地中海多媒体艺术家Moreno Castellano的合作，Eloisa Ramos的建筑手法具有前瞻性，简洁清晰有力。Moreno Castellano致力让建筑和艺术成为社会变革的力量。作为非洲最早的建筑事务所之一，RamosCastellano的作品在全球范围里均有发表。
Photographer: Sergio Pirrone
CNAD, centro nacional de arte artesanato e design, Mindelo, Cabo Verde, West Africa
The works of the CNAD National Centre for Art, Crafts and Design in Mindelo, port city of Cape Verde, on the island of São Vicente, had to be handcrafted, and not only for the name and the function it was to perform, but above all because entrusting the manual works locally would have meant distributing the public funding, resulted from a great government effort, among the artisans of the isle. Thus fulfilling, all the more so since it is a public centre, one of the primary functions of architecture, namely that of being useful to the community. Every design choice, from materials to finishes, has been aimed at seeking to achieve this goal.
Photographer: Sergio Pirrone
In this part of the world the industrial revolution, meant as the transition from manual labour to mechanization, is slowly starting now. Here there still exist, and they are the majority, craftsmen who daily build artefacts for the people. It is normal to turn to a craftsman for a piece of furniture, a door, some chairs, to wait patiently for him to make it, and to perceive the dexterity behind the object, built with the necessary effort and care. Here, time is still not money. Every constructive element of the CNAD is the result of this type of craftsmanship, the entire building is a great artisan work.
Photographer: Sergio Pirrone
The construction and assembly work was carried out entirely by hand with the aid of machines which can be assimilated to simple working tools. The fair-faced concrete was reinforced by skilled carpenters with different available types of wood and plywood. The wooden frames were manufactured in artisan workshops with the aid of cutting and smoothing machines, where, however, the human element was predominant. In the metal structure, on which the prefabricated elements were mounted, welded and assembled by the carpenters, we have riveted 2,532 drumheads, recycled from old metal drums, which have been sandblasted and manually painted one by one, to form a vibrant, colourful ventilated façade.
Photographer: Sergio Pirrone
The culture of recycling is an integral part of the life of these islands, which know how to treasure every resource: here empty drums are never wasted, they are opened and transformed into metal sheets to cover the houses, used as formwork for the concrete casting, reworked to obtain pots and knives. The idea of using them as a base material for the restoration sounded perfect. In the new building – combined with the restored colonial house built as the residence of Senator Augusto Pereira Vera-Cruz, then transformed into a high school and, subsequently, into the headquarters of the historic radio Barlavento where Cesária Évora recorded her first songs – masons and carpenters have worked together to achieve the result of a great work of local craftsmanship, in which imperfection is tangible, and it is seen as an added value, not a defect, because it conveys a sense of manufacturing, of uniqueness.
Photographer: Sergio Pirrone
Imperfection, which distinguishes the work of man from that of the machine, is the closest to perfection one can expect from a human being, as it testifies to both his search for perfection and his being human. That same content of humanity that transforms a building work into Architecture. Because architecture without people is just inert matter. Far from any false rhetoric or search for ephemeral media visibility, doing architecture has been designing a simple building, with clear mechanics, which functions with passive cooling systems, reusing materials destined for landfills, with a program intended to foster the manual work through craftsmanship, art and culture and distributing the economy that generated it among those who will benefit from it.
Photographer: Sergio Pirrone
The colors hide a musical score. Each colors is a musical note. We wanted to use the perceptual phenomenon of synesthesia so a Caboverdian composer and multistrumentist, Vasco Martins, was invited to partecipate and wrote the music behind the colors. Paying homage to the musical traditions of the islands and trasmitting a visual musical joy to the square.
Photographer: Sergio Pirrone
Every avant-garde is generated by people, not by geography, the centre of the universe can be located anywhere in the universe.
Photographer: Sergio Pirrone
For the CNAD project we have taken inspiration from the people that live in the city of Mindelo, from the Cabo Verdian manner to find solution to difficult problems, and from Chirsto and Jeanne Claude barrel sculptures.
Photographer: Sergio Pirrone
We are constantly in the search of harmony. The same joy that people receive through the building that we imagine, came back to us in multiple ways.
Photographer: Sergio Pirrone
“For us the CNAD in Mindelo, Cabo Verde, Africa, is an architectural scream. One of ours aim in Cabo Verde, is to decolonize architecture from the western paradigma, and show people that there are not third world countries in architecture, from this point, since architecture is made by human being, we can also say that not exist third class human beings, there is only one single humanity, and all the colors can live in harmony”.
Photographer: Sergio Pirrone
The functional lids can be angled like blinds which help to maintain the internal temperature of the place. “The use of recycled barrel lids with a different purpose also symbolizes the fact that an object can have multiple use and multiple lives, this only depends on the mental flexibility of the observer. In our project, we try to use materia (matter) to change consciences.”
Moreno Castellano, Eloisa Ramos
RamosCastellano arquitectos
www.ramoscastellano.com
Photographer: Sergio Pirrone
Cabo Verde, Africa
Since the first projects the main purpose of RamosCastellano arquitectos was to use architecture and materia, to change consciences.
Each work is a mixture between Art, Nature, Social contest, local knowledge, Biology and Technology.
The studio with an international team, based in Mindelo, Cabo Verde, West Africa, is born from the collaboration between:
-Eloisa Ramos, Caboverdian architect with an approach to architecture visionary, direct, clear, and simple.
-Moreno Castellano, Mediterranean multimedia artist triyng to use architecture and art, as a social revolutionary tool.
The studio, is one of the first african based architecture studio, with projects published worldwide.
Photographer: Sergio Pirrone
Name: Centro Nacional Arte Artesanato e Design, CNAD
Location: Mindelo, Sao Vicente Island,
Country: Cabo Verde
Client: Ministerio da Cultura e industrias creativas, Governo de Cabo Verde
Project of new building, restoration of the old house, exteriors: Ramos Castellano arquitectos
Architects: Eloisa Ramos, Moreno Castellano
Design team: Zico Lopes, Bruno Kenny, Edoardo Meneghin, Marvin Delgado, Danil Silva, Marco dos Anjos
Engineers: Ilidio Alexandre, Daniele Salvadorini, Francesco Bini, Denise Martins e Ricardo Martins, Luis Delgado
Consultants: Shrikar Bhave, Linda Lam, Ti Nene', Giulia La Ganga, Concetta Cavallaro
Interior design of the new building: Ramos Castellano arquitectos
Architects: Eloisa Ramos, Moreno Castellano
Design team: Bruno Kenny, Edoardo Meneghin
Expositions and Branding: CNAD design team
Paintings and textiles: Alex Da Silva, Bela Duarte, Manuel Figueira, Joao Fortes
Project year: 2015
Old House Area: 375㎡
Pátio: 381㎡
New Building: 1069㎡
total surface: 1265 sqm
total exhibition surface: 811 sqm
number of recycled barrel caps: 2532
Public opening: july, 2022
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