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# Eight priciples of spatial organization
- URL: https://arts-of-the-working-class.ghost.io/text/eight-priciples-of-spatial-organization/
- Published: 2021-07-27T00:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-08-30T21:14:31.000Z
- Author: Sénamé Koffi Agbodjinou
- Tags: #silverstripe, #issue-12

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1.  
FIGURE OF GESTATION  
The permanence in African  
architecture of symbols, of  
coupling, parturient, fetal, etc  
...

2.  
ANTHROPOMORPHISM  
The house, and the space have  
systematic figures and  
attributes of a human, an  
"Anatomy of architecture" !

3.  
DIFFERENTIALITY  
The space is sexed or gendered.  
worked from male / female tension  
... never neutral, divided,  
hierarchized or stratified. This  
friction produces rythm, beauty  
by contrast ... puts architecture  
in motion.

4.  
GYRATION  
Organization is rotating.  
Volutes, concentrism, turns: this  
movement which makes rise; also  
does the house aspire to ...

5.  
FRACTALS  
The inifnite repetition of  
everything in the detail ... The  
calabash is the village bound on  
itself 'n' times. the deployment  
is "logical", consistent ...  
care to spare all parties at each  
change of scale. The house is the  
teenager of the calabash whose  
village is the figure of old.

6.  
PANOPTICON  
All points of view converge in  
the African space. The house is  
the place where everything is  
said. everything is under the  
gaze of everyone.

7.  
TOTALITY / COSMO ARCHITECTURE  
The place is complete. Nothing  
is missing. Desire for finitude.  
ambition to summarize the  
world. Full companianship where  
plants, animals, minerals, sky,  
earth, air, water ... Order /  
Complementarity / Completeness /

8.  
UNITY  
"Everything is one!" Principle of  
inextricability of principles.  
Cohesion where we do not  
distinguish ...

*Sénamé Koffi Agbodjinou is an architect and anthropologist who created the collaborative research platform on the issues of architecture and the African city 'L'Africaine d'architecture'. He leads the network of WoeLabs (African Spaces of Technological Democracy), atypical places that make it possible to pool intelligences and mix different populations adopting practices with low environmental impact.*