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架构师提供的文本描述。LAP住宅建筑群的主要目标不仅是提供一座由现代别墅组成的豪华大院，提供所有完整的住宅服务，让一种先进和环保的方式能够以和平、宁静和熟悉的方式在这个不断发展的小镇上生活。这一计划的主要问题是对非洲特性的重新诠释，以当代优雅的风格重新创造当地和大陆的根源。

Text description provided by the architects. The main target regarding the LAP residential complex is not only to provide a luxury compound of modern villas with all the full residential services, allowing a sophisticate and environmental way to live in the growing town in a peaceful, tranquil and familiar way. The main issue that substantially stays back the idea of this plan is the reinterpretation of the African identity, reinventing the local and the continental roots in a contemporary elegant style.

我们面临的挑战是向世界表明，在这里也有可能平淡地从发明与传统、奢侈与生态、全球化和地方文化之间的综合中吸取最好的东西，享受生活方式和尊重人的尊严。

The challenge is to demonstrate to the world that also here it is possible to bland and take away the best from the synthesis between invention and tradition, luxury and ecology, globalization and local culture, enjoy life style and respect for human dignity.

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通常，住宅小区是由一个城市栅格构成的，街道和任何一个地块的匿名和围墙都定义了外部城市想象，给人一种封闭的感觉和保护私有财产的感觉。在这个国家，我们不能回避这一保护要求。因此，我们把目标颠倒过来，试图为北非和沙漠城镇的“墙”树立一个新的形象，这给我们带来了灵感。像利比亚的Gath和Gadamesh这样的地方，Marocco的绿洲小镇把我们推向了由墙建造的城市结构的概念。

Usually the residential compounds are made by a urban grid where the streets and the anonymous and wall fencings of any single plots define the external urban imagine giving a sense of enclosure and protection of the private properties. In this country we cannot avoid this protection requirement. So we invert the target trying to develop a new image for the “walls” taking from the north African and the desert towns the inspiration for this. Place like Gath and Gadamesh in Libya, the oasis town in Marocco drive us to the concept of the urban fabric made by walls.

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墙本身创造了建筑的集体形象，别墅内部呈现出其应有的、私密的身份。我们已经找到了一个与这个私人和公共世界相匹配的联系解决方案。这堵墙沿着街道和林荫大道，或者我们可以说，街道是由连绵的墙建造的，它使自己适应了房屋的存在，只容纳了洞口和一些突出入口处的“塔楼”的抽象图像。如果墙壁形状不稳定且不线性，黄铜和雪松木门和大门、墙壁本身的红色和欧拉颜色，以及一些应用的瓷砖或小开口，作为唯一明显与情绪传统有关的装饰系统，随机碎片是唯一的装饰系统。

The wall itself creates the collective image of the architecture, inside the villas take their proper, private identity. We have look for a linked solution to match this private and public world. The wall follow the streets and boulevards or we can say that the streets are made by the continuous wall that adapt it self to the presence of the Houses, hosting just the opening and some abstract images of “towers” that underline the entrance door. If the wall shape is instable and not linear the brass and cedar wood doors and gates, the red and ocra colour of the wall itself and some applied ceramic tiles or small opening, as random fragments are the only decorative system clearly related to the mood tradition.

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Architects 5+1AA Alfonso Femia Gianluca Peluffo, Peia Associati

Location Cotonou, Benin

Category Housing

Architect in Charge Alfonso Femia, Gianluca Peluffo, Giampiero Peia, Marta Nasazzi, Simonetta Cenci

Design Team Simonetta Cenci, Ilaria Sisto, Sara Gottardo, Enrico Arrighetti, Emanuela Bartolini, Annalisa Beghelli, Stefania Bracco, Emanuele Mondin, Valeria Parodi, Francesca Recagno, Sara Traverso, Luca Bonazzoli, Massimo Mauro, Matteo Nicotra, Anna Pavoni, Francesca Patti

Area 54500.0 sqm

Project Year 2008

Photographs Peia Associati