Ground control: The Zoma Museum by Meskerem Assegued and Elias Sime
By: Berlanda, Tomà
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Publisher: Londoan EMAP Publishing Limited 2020Edition: 10 February 2020.Subject(s): ARCHITECTURE GENERAL (AR-GEN)Online resources: Click here
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Architectural reviewSummary: The urban history of the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa is relatively short in time but dense in superpositions. Established by the emperor Menelik in the late 1880s on a valley site at the foot of Mount Entoto, it grew out of a collection of several ‘villages’ scattered over a large area, which has since been filled to constitute today’s sprawling ensemble. Multiple plans were drawn, and some implemented, during the 20th century to intertwine what was deemed a more modern infrastructure for the topographical setting and respond to the large demographic growth.
As with other cities in Sub-Saharan Africa, the urban/rural binary is quite inadequate to describe urbanisation phenomena, since the multiple economies and ways to ensure sustenance to households resort to a combination of makeshift agricultural ecosystems within the urban fabric. The notion of ground, both in terms of land tenure, and the Earth’s crust, which can be cultivated or used for building, is essential to the new Zoma Museum, which opened in the Mekanisa district of Addis Ababa in March 2019.
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The urban history of the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa is relatively short in time but dense in superpositions. Established by the emperor Menelik in the late 1880s on a valley site at the foot of Mount Entoto, it grew out of a collection of several ‘villages’ scattered over a large area, which has since been filled to constitute today’s sprawling ensemble. Multiple plans were drawn, and some implemented, during the 20th century to intertwine what was deemed a more modern infrastructure for the topographical setting and respond to the large demographic growth.
As with other cities in Sub-Saharan Africa, the urban/rural binary is quite inadequate to describe urbanisation phenomena, since the multiple economies and ways to ensure sustenance to households resort to a combination of makeshift agricultural ecosystems within the urban fabric. The notion of ground, both in terms of land tenure, and the Earth’s crust, which can be cultivated or used for building, is essential to the new Zoma Museum, which opened in the Mekanisa district of Addis Ababa in March 2019.
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