Padaria Saipal

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Today, Mozambique's national water infrastructure company is located in Padaria Saipal

As Padaria Saipal to German "bakery Saipal", a building of modernist architecture in the Mozambican capital Maputo called. The building designed by Pancho Guedes for the colonial baker's cooperative now serves as the headquarters of the national water investment fund FIPAG.

history

On behalf of the Lourenço Marques bakery cooperative ( Cooperativa dos Padeiros de Lourenço Marques ), Pancho Guedes and Vitalle Moffa designed the building between 1952 and 1954, which was to serve as the headquarters of the cooperative and at the same time as a bakery. It is located in the Alto Maé district on Avenida Filipe Samuel Magaia 1291. Guedes describes it as follows:

“A padaria Saipal was a sede ea fábrica da Cooperativa de Padeiros de Lourenço Marques. (...) Desenhei o edifício com base nas plantas de máquinas fornecidas pelos fabricantes alemães de fornos e outro equipamento. Infelizmente as máquinas nicht sabiam fazer pão à portuguesa e recusaram-se a ser adaptadas. Os padeiros começaram a desentender-se ea Saipal em breve abriu falência. "

“Saipal Bakery was the headquarters and factory of the Lourenço Marques bakery cooperative. (...) I designed the building on the basis of the German ovens and other equipment provided. Unfortunately, the ovens couldn't bake German bread and it wasn't possible to adapt them to it. The bakers began to quarrel and Saipal went bankrupt. "

- Pancho Guedes : From a flyer for an exhibition of Guedes' works at the CCB , 2004, quoted from Serra and Guedes themselves

The shape of the building is characterized by two large arches, which makes it possible to divide it into two naves and thus two work areas. Ribbons, in the form of arches, are repeated at regular intervals across the elongated building. While the larger and broad ship with the main hall was intended for the production of bread, the small ship had three floors and was designed for office use. The large chimney is also remarkable.

The cooperative, which was called "Saipal", called itself "the bread of the city" ( o pão da cidade ). Hence the urban legend that Guedes based his architectural design on the shape of Portuguese bread, which he denies. The ovens mentioned were installed in 1957 and operations began in 1958.

Today the building houses the headquarters of the national water investment fund FIPAG ( Fundo de Investimento e Património do Abastecimento de Água ).

The building is registered with the number 31709 in the Portuguese monument database Sistema de Informação para o Património Arquitectónico , which also includes monuments to former Portuguese colonies.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ João B. Serra: Pancho Guedes em Maputo. In: O que eu andei ... August 12, 2009, accessed June 22, 2014 (Portuguese).
  2. ↑ a b Pancho Guedes: Saipal Bakery. In: guedes.info. Retrieved June 22, 2014 (English).
  3. ↑ Elisiário Miranda and José Manuel Fernandes: Padaria Saipal / “Pão da Cidade”. In: Património de Influência Portuguesa (HPIP). Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, October 18, 2012, accessed June 22, 2014 (Portuguese).
  4. ↑ Elisiário Miranda: No caminho de uma arquitectura racional: Infraestruturas modernas em Mozambique. (PDF) Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa, November 29, 2011, p. 3 , accessed on June 22, 2014 (Portuguese).
  5. ^ Tiago Lourenço: Padaria Saipal. In: Sistema de Informação para o Património Arquitectónico (SIPA). 2011, accessed June 22, 2014 (Portuguese).

Coordinates: 25 ° 57 ′ 37.7 ″  S , 32 ° 34 ′ 28.6 ″  E