African project
Kintele Congress Centre – The Congo Republic
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he positioning of the buildings on the site is largely dictated by this
topography where Avci Architects focused on minimising excessive
excavation and shifting of earth away from the site. The larger objects of
the programme: the 1 500 seat Congress Hall, the 300 person Presidential
Hall, the 1000 seat Banquet Hall and the 1 000 person Public Piazza, were
placed in a line sequence interrupted by courtyards, and all reached by
a public sheltered colonnade that links these elements. The Hotel, on the
other hand, is positioned 5m above this general public promenade, largely to
provide better views to the river, while making a public/private segregation
of functions on the site. All but two courtyards linking the enclosed volumes
are accessible to the public, which allowed the architects to form landscaped intermissions
amongst the large masses of these functions. Thus the form of the KCC settles in to the
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