Cine Estudio Namibe

Its implementation would occupy a crucial place for the development of the urban plan, which did not come to fruition due to a large demographic evasion during the popular movements that preceded the country's independence.
The cinema, nicknamed by many as “the spaceship”, is located on a vacant lot, at the intersection of the new avenue for the new airport, which began to be built in January 1974, with Av. Dona Amélia, the which would give access to the road to Porto Alexandre, to the south.
Located between Rua Major Teixeira Pinto and the new avenue, it defines an important hinge in the current city: to the north the new Provincial Government building was built, the colonial urban fabric undergoes some arrangements without significant changes; to the south, the informal and non-conformist city develops.

In addition to the centralized plan, the cinema is also located in a “central place”, today located next to the bay and Av. D. Amélia, which is Nowadays, it is assumed as an axis, or limit, between the old city and the musseque.
It is therefore important to reflect on its historical and social role for the city in the future.
Due to the uniqueness of its form and representing , in this dissertation, the final chapter of the evolutionary study of Angolan cinemas, a concrete look at their architecture is taken in depth.
The Cine-Estúdio was designed as a coupled structure that contained, in addition to the movie theater program, a restaurant and commercial area in a separate body.

The services, distributed on three floors behind the stage box, guarantee vertical access to the bar, kitchen, bathrooms and artists' cabins. The booth occupies the space before the audience, on the first and second floor.
Under the booth slab, the ticketing and bar program is inserted, implemented in the extension of the side galleries that embrace the space wasted under the audience's slope.

In addition to Cine-Estúdio Namibe, the city had two more cinemas: the Moçâmedes cineteatro and the Impala cine-esplanada. Gaspar Madeira, son of Mr. Eurico, who commissioned the project from Botelho Pereira, states that “it was in the interest of the distributors to spread the films here in different cinemas”. When recalling the urban transformations that preceded the construction of cinema, he adds:
“Angola has always had great development despite the war, due to industries: coffee, corn, fishing... so it was necessary to respond to demographic growth and take advantage of it with the construction of these leisure spaces for the people who came here looking for work. Now, with the appearance of the industrial port close to the city, Namibe experienced rapid growth and then another cinema was needed, you see? It follows that, when the cine-studio appeared, in the seventies, it was designed with the purpose of being located in a future, more diplomatic area of ​​the city, with today the Provincial Government building nearby, which was built later” .
Gaspar Madeira, 2016 [interview by AQ. cf. Annex II]

There would, therefore, be an urban plan to beautify Avenida D. Amélia, to which the cinema would serve as an urban reference.
Regarding the implementation plans for Pereira's proposal, some considerable differences stand out with the current situation.
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