THESIS EXHIBTION

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THESIS ABSTRACT

ABSTRACT

MOVE TO A NEW BLOG

This blog has been a document of my journey through the last 5 years at the University of the Witwatersrand's Architecture School. A journey that I feel has been well worth the blood and tears (metaphorically speaking of course). In a move towards my professional career as an architect, I have decided to create a new blog that will become in future a document of my experiences as a practicing architect, in addition to any other creative endeavors that I will undoubtedly explore.

I have valued your support, and interest over the last few years, and hope that this journey will provide for interesting reading and viewing.

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GOLDRING

Programmatic Mapping for a Winery

Without Going into to much detail, this is some programmatic mapping that I am using to generate a programme for my winery... I shall elaborate at a later stage. Consider this mapping candy for now :)

BEST WEB DESIGNER IN SA!!!

AS FAR AS I'M CONCERNED... AMY IS THE BEST WEB DESIGNER IN SA!!!

HAVE A LOOK AT HER PROFILE:

AMY ELLMAN

Johannesburg has gone Bafana Mad!!

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BRT Artwork Glass Panel

Here are some pics of the 'finished' artwork on the glass side... The steel work is yet to come... 

OTHER BRT ARTWORKS

BRT ARTWORKS

BRT Artwork by Bronwyn Kotzen and myself

Initially, by mapping out the tree coverage ratio within the containing north south axis boundaries of Empire Road and the M2 Highway, and the east west axis boundaries of Charlton Road and the M1 Highway, the fact that “Johannesburg is one of the most treed cities in the world” is celebrated. This exclusively identifying quality separates the city as not only a unique metropolis within South Africa, but within the global community as a whole.


The graphic as an entirety seeks to create a figure ground to emphasise the tree coverage to space ratio found within the inner city that gives Johannesburg one of its many unique characteristics. This graphic is focused onto the area surrounding Braamfontein Metro Centre and the Constitutional Court of South Africa and further concentrated around the Joubert Street Ext Station. This approach contextualises the tree densification quality around this particular station within the inner city. 

Pics via Johannesburg Daily

Re-scripting the winery

investigates how a space as crude as factory has become an architectural

icon of romance, culture, tradition and sophistication. It is an exploration of tourism theory which

utilises the work of John Urry to build an argument that tourism is 'fabricated autheticity'. This

agrument is then opposed with the work of Joseph Pine which makes a contradictory argument

impying that everything is authentic. Orientalism and its impact is explored through the work of

Edward Said which combines with the work of Urry and Pine to analyse selected wineries within the

Cape wine region. This exploration illustrates that the winery is a hybrid of villa, palace, place of

worship and factory and because of the typological link to the villa, the winery typology is able to

utilise the social reading that essentially embuse a factory space with romance, culture, tradition and

sophistication. The essay culminates with the idea that should one re-script a winery, it becomes a

typology that could offer a multitude of possibilities in driving urban renewal and community

regeneration.

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Design Models

These were diagram models created for the design charrette. Essentially the idea was to show the social effect  of a winery in the landscape in comparison to a winery that is placed into an impoverished settlement.