The project, based on an innovative manipulation of the 1916 New York zoning regulation, serves as a flexible, affordable spatial model highly responsive to site constraints. Context, code, program, precedent and natural climate are adopted as generative tools to challenge the prevalent office building typology and enhance its social impact.

The project is set in the context of the urgent requirement of energy in the fast-growing city of Luanda. B/E Angola explores the impacts of a low-tech energy infrastructure on the urban form and is a critique on the current models of urban requalification.