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11/11/2021

Greenhouse Revisited - Concept for an arched timber greenhouse with an emphasis on adaptive reuse. (1) 🌱

10/11/2021

Waiting for plants to render be like:
Greenhouse Revisited, Detailing. 🌱

08/11/2021

Social Infrastructure is Justice - Mqhekezweni Community Centre for Justice 🌴

14/10/2021

A Tectonic Loveletter to Graaff-Reinet 🌾
Continuing the exploration of gradual changes of site due to climate change, so too can the facade transition with the seasons. Thatch gradually ageing like patina on copper, reflecting the harsh environmental and socio-political realities of the Karoo and her people.
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02/08/2021

Material Explorations - People's Pavilion Proposal Mid-2021. 🌴

08/07/2021

The People's Pavilion of South Africa - Parliament Square Indigenous Ecology Park, Cape Town CBD. Design Proposal Mid-2021. 🌴 (2)

07/07/2021

The People's Pavilion of South Africa - Parliament Square Indigenous Species Park, Cape Town CBD. Design Proposal Mid-2021. 🌴

23/06/2021

Ons Identiteit is Veelvoudig - A Contemporary Identity of the Karoo 🌴🏜

18/06/2021

Mqhekezweni Community Centre for Justice (1) Floorplan
Eastern Cape, South Africa

17/06/2021

Mqhekezweni Community Centre for Justice (2) Competition Board
Eastern Cape, South Africa

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The building form evokes the communal nature of the Royal Court and the traditional Xhosa methods of settling disputes. The royal court would discuss issues affecting the community around a central, towering tree – memorialising it as symbolic of justice in the region. The central courtroom allows for a programmatic expansion of interaction, abstracting the notions of discussion and mediation. Movement is dictated by obstacle, not obstruction – so as to allow the free movement of visitors and to facilitate the deconstruction of the hierarchal Western conception of the court floorplan.

The building combines social and public infrastructure with justice services to form a new public typology – one that equalises access to justice and makes it synonymous with basic infrastructure. The architecture evokes the vernacular qualities of the traditional Xhosa huts, while strictly adhering to 100% local knowledge, materials, and construction methods to deeply integrate with its surrounding context.

The project aims to address the intersectional nature of race, gender, environmental sustainability and the expansion of justice through addressing the causality of crime and not just its symptoms. Justice through the provision of basic social infrastructure can act as a powerful tool in redress, and the typology of restorative justice centers, such as the Mqhekezweni Community Center for Justice, will go a long way in shifting the way our current justice system treats the accused – improving upon its capacity as the mediator between public and state.

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04/06/2021

Composite Slab Detail (4)
Materials = Concrete × Steel Decking

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