XVII SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL FORUM
CONSTRUCTIVE
TRADITIONS IN
THE ERONGO
REGION
Architects: Paula Arango Enríquez and
Nurys Videaux Abelardo.
IPF-MICONS
INTRODUCTION
What happened with the constructive Traditions of ethnic groups that
currently inhabit in Erongo Region?
General Objective:
• Revalue the Constructive Traditions of different ethnic groups that currently
inhabit in Erongo Region.
Specific Objectives:
• Characterize Culture, idiosyncrasy, tastes, customs, livelihoods and especially
the architecture of the different ethnic groups.
• Highlight Construction techniques used in the preservative of the
characteristics of the place where they settled and get it in modern
reinterpretation according to ethnological heritage.
• Emphasize the consequences that produce the importing a culture to region
and benefit of this
• Warn the importance of the selection and evaluation of construction materials
in the coastal area of the Erongo Region.
Justification.
We need to recognize ethnic groups in the city were identified with their culture
and establish the link between humans and their history through architecture.
The beneficiaries of this research will be the different ethnic groups living in the
region and especially the World Cultural Heritage to be enriched, if implemented
in the architecture concepts.
Viability.
We believe it is feasible and of great importance in the conceptualization of
these criteria and tools for architects and administrative staff responsible.
Methods Used:
• Observation of the city and its surroundings.
• Documentary Bibliographical Method.
• Interview people of different ethnicities in the Erongo region.
NAMIBIA
Population: 2.055.080 inhabiting
Capital: Windhoek
Nationality and ethnics: Namibia
counts with 13 ethnic different
groups. The bigger group is those of
the ovambos. Other groups are the
hereros , himbas, san or nam ,
baster , german, afrikaners ,
between other.
CULTURA
Although a great part of the Namibia
cultural patrimony takes root in your
fauna, in your virgin landscapes and
in the unquenchable wealth of your
nature.
Namibia has thirteen regions, Erongo
is
one of them and this located in
the west of the country.
DAMARAS
HEREROS
OVAMBOS
AUCTION
CONSEQUENCES THAT HAVE BROUGHT THE CROSSCULTURAL FOR THE ERONGO REGION SPECIFICALLY
FOR SWAKOPMUND
• The ethnics they settled the place lost your social
identity ( disappeared your institutes ).
• It is imposed you the development of an unknown world
(years-culture).
• Plundering of the natural resources (ivory, diamond etc).
• The colonialists imposed your power without scruple ).
• The obtained culture is a mixture of the originals by
giving a novel sample ( brought of the Herero dress the
Afrikaner language, use of the local materials in modern
architecture , etc).
COASTAL TOWNS IN ERONGO REGION.
•
Swakopmund
• Henties Bay
• Walvis Bay
It have seeing that the native it used in your majority the
local available materials predominant those of vegetable
origin of the desert area and dry as the fiber, stick, guano ),
by achieving a diversity of spectacular geometric form and
such a adaptation they achieved in many cases to mix up
with it natural.
(see example of the Damara traditional houses that it are
like blunder, the roofs of the Ovambos).
In this Region as explain previously it has limit natural well
defined physical: The desert and the Atlantic Ocean.
The constructive technical in the settlings of coast have
differed of the remainder due to the influence of the marine
climate ( example of it is the cities : Swakopmund, Walvis
Bay y Henties Bay.
Here the coverings of the steel are bigger.
Is vital and necessary the dam proof membrane (dpc),
which avoids that the water ascends for capillarity.
The mixture for the coatings of walls (plaster) is more
consistent and in the majority of the cases it uses tiles of
stoneware that it is more durable.
The carpenter’s must be of materials that do not oxidize
with facility.
In any way whatever of supposition all of these technical
specification raise the cost of the construction in these
coastal areas.
SWAKOPMUND
SWAKOPMUND
HENTIES BAY
WALVIS BAY
CONCLUSIONS
1-Different ethnic groups have a rich cultural heritage It
should be the architecture as one way of perpetuating
them.
Interpreting the style of the ancients with the use of new
materials and Intensifying the study for the use of the
local materials,
are the suitable for the different
geographical areas.
In the architectural design it takes as relating the
vernacular architecture on time of new proposals.
Creating multifunctional centers where the different
ethnics have your space, your tradition, your history.
The new constructions need a space to interchange with
the halfback, terraces etcetera, it has the in account.
The cities lack of spreading areas.
To analyze on time to make the budget the value of the
materials used in the coastal areas, is different to those
of other area in the region.
It is necessary the contracting of professionals in the
construction of agricultural works, saves to him
resources.
Recommendations.
We recommend that the administrative entities involved in
takes decisions of the Region keeps in mind this analysis.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Wikipedia: Namibia, Swakopmund, Walvis Bay and
Henties Bay.
Elections 2010, Erongo Regional Profile (16th
November 2010 ).
Local authorities, Association of local authorities in
Namibia CALAN. (1th October 2012).
Namibian Newspaper, Civic conscience and UDF,
Hartmann Adams (22th May 2008).
Die Brand Wag, interviews (29th April 1990).
Wikipedia: Namibia traditional houses, Damaras
Traditional Houses and Ovambo Traditional Houses.
Alternate African world, tribes and ethnics, ( 31th
October 2009 ).