"The modular, lightweight structure dialogues with the formerly abandoned Brutalist building housing the museum, transforming its skeletal concrete structure and its surrounding land into spaces for use, care, and encounter. The project reflects on the boundaries between unfinished urban architecture and the landscape, foregrounding the labor and stewardship often invisible in both urban and institutional contexts."
"The installation is designed as a modular system of lightweight components that can be carried by a single person and assembled on site. Oversized daybeds, inspired by the woven beds commonly found on construction sites and within unfinished buildings in West Africa, provide shade, filtered views, and spaces for sitting or lying down to foster interaction among farmers, caretakers, and museum visitors."
"It uses steel profiles and construction techniques familiar from roadside kiosks and billboard structures, combined with salvaged billboard material cut into strips and woven onto the frames. Individual frames are aggregated to form larger canopy and seating elements, allowing the system to adapt to different sites and configurations."
The Limbo Museum in Accra commissioned TAELON7 architect Juergen Benson-Strohmayer to create Limbo Engawa, a modular architectural installation in partnership with Art Omi. The structure dialogues with the museum's formerly abandoned Brutalist building, transforming its concrete skeleton and surrounding landscape into functional spaces for use, care, and encounter. The installation features oversized daybeds inspired by West African construction site beds, using steel profiles and salvaged billboard material woven onto frames. Individual components can be carried by one person and assembled on site, allowing adaptation to different configurations. The design blends local African construction techniques with adaptable strategies, emphasizing the civic potential of overlooked urban sites and the invisible labor within institutional contexts.
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