A J BURGERHOFF Professional Architect
PORTFOLIO OF SELECTED WORKS
ADRIAN JONATHAN
SYNOPSIS OF EXPERIENCE
PROFICIENCY
BURGERHOFF
Stefan Antoni Olmesdahl Truen Architects [SAOTA]
Revit
Lumion
Photoshop
july 2018 – present Cape Town, South Africa www.saota.com
Professional Architect & leading projects in the masterplanning, high-end residential and commercial markets. Experience in conceptual massing and design, project management and co-ordination of the professional team, BIM standards and workflow efficiency.
Zervogiannis Associate Architects [ZAARC] january 2017 – june 2018 Durban, South Africa www.zaarc.co.za
Autocad
Archicad
Candidate Architect – Designed and constructed estate and resort architecture. Worked closely with the interior architecture department on several commercial projects as well. Lead research on branding and identity.
Lux Walker
University of KwaZulu Natal [UKZN]
Professional Architect at SAOTA
FAMILIARITY
SACAP Pr Arch 4400
Adrian Burgerhoff completed his Master of Architecture degree at the University of KwaZulu Natal in 2016. In 2018 he joined SAOTA, where he has worked on numerous projects of different typologies around the world. He is a passionate and forward thinking architect with a focus on setting a new standard of design and professionalism in the top end of the architectural market. He is a pragmatic and dynamic team player, with extraordinary creative talent and innovative ideas. Adrian works as a Project Architect and CGI artist, and plays as goal keeper in the Architect’s football league. Email : adztab@gmail.com Cell : 064 656 7390 Issuu : a j burgerhoff Instagram : aj_burgerhoff Language : English
South African : Nationality Caucasian : Ethnicity Male : Gender Married : Marital Status 30 April 1992 : Date of birth
2015 – 2016 Durban, South Africa
designworkshop : sa [DWS]
Dynamo
InDesign
2014 Durban, South Africa www.designworkshop.co.za
2013 Durban, South Africa
Artlantis
Collaborator – A collaboration with a fellow architect where we explored different conceptual approaches and form finding to architecture through hermeneutics and allegorical study.
SketchUp
Joy Brasler Architect & Associates [JBA] 2013 Durban, South Africa www.joybrasler.com
SOFT SKILLS
Design
Collaboration
Coordination
Junior Architect – Primarily tasked with stages four to six for high-end residential projects, but also explored master planning of an ecologically responsible logistics facility, as well alternative green-building materials. Experienced a short stint working on a construction site for an eco park where building materials were mostly recycled materials such as plastic waste or shipping containers.
University of KwaZulu Natal [UKZN] Adaptability
Critical Thinking
2010 - 2012 Durban, South Africa
INTERESTS & HOBBIES Versatility
ISSUU
Assisting Architect - Predominantly focused on construction documentation, site visits and close out for a multi-residential, hotel and educational facilities. Also gained exposure to design of public and commercial projects.
Ian van Biljon - Concept Explorations [IvB]
Leadership
Master of Architecture degree where my final thesis project focused on a creative hub as means of progressing towards social inclusivity. Also served as a design and theory mentor to the undergraduate studio.
Systemic Thinking
Organised
Bachelor of Architecture – My undergraduate projects typically had an organic or curvilinear approach, with an interest in sustainability. Worked part time in the JBA offices during semester breaks.
current design work experience at SAOTA Commercial / mixed use Multi residential
ADP Competition Entries
Concept Design Design Development
Worked with Revit and Lumion
Single residential
Past employment work experience Commercial / mixed use Multi residential Single residential
SAOTA [2018-present] Past [2013-2014] [2017-2018]
Revit & Photoshop
COMPETITION PROJECT SUMMARY The project suggests an extrovert architectural nature, more joyful and ecstatic, with a looser, more open framework that stimulates the spaces within us. An arts centre by its very nature allows for a whimsical freedom to approach the architecture as an artwork; the curvilinear gives rise to a poetry that influences life and transforms the university through an explicit spatial dimension, generating form innate to the concept. The design accommodates ideas, relations and blended conditions to create an experiential space, acting as a precinct typology that functionally suspends the parallel dynamics of fluidity and rigidity to facilitate evolution and growth. Culturality is continuously dis-entangled and re-entangled through the medium of creativity towards generating a vibrant intercultural interchange. The design intention is a move towards finding a renewed and revitalized vocabulary for human life in the city, simultaneously evolving through democratic, scientific, and artful aspects. The successful integration of mutually evolving societies begins where differing idioms are laminated into a threshold architecture. This does not represent a compromise, inherent to our uncertainties, but as a dynamic ecological logic within our differences and reciprocation of ideas emanating from the rich capital, from which our architecture could begin to reinvigorate its educational paradigm. This project is a competition entry developed from my dissertation, and entered into an international competition as an alternative design to traditional universities. Part of a two person team. Later published in a book and online. Hosted by Non Architecture
RECEIVED HONOURABLE MENTION !
PUBLISHED !
Revit & Photoshop
The design intention is a move towards finding a new vocabulary for human life in the city, simultaneously evolving through democratic, scientific and artful aspects. This tends to imply that rather than a city designed for efficiency and planning for general distribution of basic systems as if urban quality can simply be gridded up as a resource, but rather creating a focus on hotspots as nodes of insipient and potential that commits itself to sensory, vivid phenomena – like ripples in a pond from dropped pebbles – through new facilities, popular events or new monuments.
By revising place, image, modes of and uses of monuments in Durban’s inner city, intercultural ideas can be generated through a building that acts as an icon, a logo; a mascot, for change. As a new concept of monument, the intercultural precinct could mark a point in Durban’s social history, to keep the vibrant charisma of place and infuse new energies to create fresh growth. The building is not an end in itself, but by mutually creating energy for its surroundings, injecting mutual functions, kinetic qualities and proactive spaces into it. To design is to hope : what are we hoping for?
Proposal to transform an empty shipping container storage yard into a low cost housing village.
Addressing excessive containers in the city of Durban
Design for a waste pickers mobile control station and refuse site with an educational component – to be deployed on landfills for exchange of collected recyclable materials for cash.
Hand & Photoshop
2x CONTAINER ARCHITECTURE
Archicad
Archicad
Archicad & Artlantis Both of the above projects involved renovating existing landmark buildings within Durban’s central business district and required close collaboration with the local heritage council, AMAFA, as well as working closely with various preservation societies.
IN PRACTICE - MARKETING GRAPHICS
Revit
Revit & Lumion
Hand & Photoshop
POST-GRADUATE URBAN NETWORK AND SOCIAL MOVEMENT STUDIES
Archicad & Photoshop
Hand & Photoshop
POST-GRADUATE WORK – 4TH YEAR
Archicad & Photoshop
Photoshop
DURBAN BLUFF BEACH UPGRADE
IN PRACTICE - URBAN STUDIES
UIA DURBAN 2014
Archicad
Archicad
IN PRACTICE – TENDER DOCUMENTATION
Clarity in Visual Communication is essential
Archicad
Archicad
Archicad & Photoshop
Archicad & Photoshop
Revit & Lumion
Heimdallr's Post Heimdallr's Post serves as a gateway to understanding the Vidzeme Biosphere Reserve, located on Kurgi farm in northern Latvia. The concept draws from the myth of the Bilröst as the burning rainbow bridge between heaven and earth, as it soars into the sky to serve as an observation tower and an ecological education centre for the region. The form is inspired through a biomicicry of equine anatomy, following the elegant curve of the Ardennes' muscular contours, accentuating the dynamic flow of a perceiver's eyeline as it it drawn upwards towards the clouds. Atop the tower sits an observation post from where the vast nature reserve can be admired.
This project is a competition entry Part of a two person team.
The structure grounds itself with fluid, monolithic plinth of concrete that translates into a light, screened superstructure that is bronze-coloured to provide a warm, soft, rich silhouette in the natural landscape. The natural wetlands of the surrounding terrain is then weaved through the architecture to integrate the project into the environment and encourage natural ecosystems to develop again in the farmland.
OVER THE EDGE coursework project The Unravel concept explores a more tangible approach to design through emotion and sculpture. The approach to this concept started with visualizing desired adjectives to best describe the impression one would feel when experiencing the architecture – followed by sculpting a form without first sketching it out on paper. The form is of a singular ribbon that wraps around a conical enclosure – the studio – before unfurling out and swooping up into an obelisk expression. The fluidity and femininity of the curvilinear line are characteristic of some forms of Arabic calligraphy – particularly of ‘ummi’ – the Arabic word for ‘mother’ and an inspiration for the form.
Revit & Lumion
The allegorical driver of ‘unravelling’ is indicative of shedding socially accepted norms of what can drive architecture, allowing an artist the freedom to reach beyond collective imagination and show how fragile yet resilient reality can be. “An architect’s role is to show how fiction can become fact”
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Revit
Revit & Lumion
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