Architectural Portfolio & CV by Benjamin Kollenberg

Architectural Portfolio C u r r i c u l u m V i t a e

Selected Works 2011 - 2016 Benjamin Kollenberg

Benjamin Kollenberg | Curriculum Vitae

I was always slightly terrified at the fact that I never wanted to be anything other than an architect. Having grown up as the first born in a household of only architects, I assumed I wanted this future as a result of simply knowing no other alternative, however upon spending a summer holiday work shadowing engineers (who were busyworking on some of the most exciting projects in the profession), I realised that I really do gravitate towards both the practice as well as the profession of architecture. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s funny, as I was having this realisation, my younger sister was having quite the opposite â&#x20AC;&#x201C; declaring she will do absolutely anything but architecture. As I was studying and furthermore while working, this passion and love for the multiple ways of making architecture was again and again reaffirmed. I applied only to Wits University right after finishing school (in hindsight a risky decision to apply at just a single university with intention of studying just a single course), being the third generation (and fourth architect in my family) to walk through these doors, it felt substantially easier an adjustment and much more exciting than I imagine for most. This love for creating as well as appreciating the practice has only intensified and I have been particularly fortunate to have had a set of incredible experiences through my six years of engagement with the profession. This Portfolio serves to delve into these experiences and my continually evolving passion for architecture.

Benjamin Kollenberg | Architectural Portfolio

Personal Details Work Experience Academic Record Undergraduate Portfolio Professional Portfolio Travel Experience

Contents page 1 page 4 page 6 page 8 page 22 page 36

Benjamin

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A Stranger in the Village

Kollenberg

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External Artwork

November 2011

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House Buthelezi

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First Year Design

September 2012

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Urban Gymnasium

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Second Year Design September 2013

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The Academy

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Third Year Design April 2014v

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Museum of Human Rights

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Third Year Design and Construction June 2014

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Film Factory

Third Year Design October 2014

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Project

Index

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Benjamin

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Jan Celliers

Kollenberg

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StudioMAS A + UD August 2015

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Kgoro Precinct, Rivonia Block

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StudioMAS A + UD August 2015

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Sandton Drive Link Bridge

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StudioMAS A + UD November 2015

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Johannesburg Contemporary Art Foundation

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StudioMAS A + UD July 2016

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ARCB 3002

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Private Job, Co-Artist June 2016

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Saatwinklerdamm Ten Brinke Berlin October 2016

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Project

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Benjamin Kollenberg | Curriculum Vitae

Benjamin Kollenberg 7 December 1993 (+27) 82 877 0248 benjikollenberg@gmail.com www.linkedin.com/benjaminkollenberg benjkollenberg South African 25 2nd street, Abbotsford, Johannesburg, 2192 Drivers License aquired in April 2012 and own transport is availible Interests Architecture // Industrial Design // Urbanism // Fine Arts // Photography // Travel Soccer // Rugby // Netball // Cycling // Running // Music - both playing and listening

IEB Matric

King David Linksfield, JHB passed all subjects, 7 of the 8 with distinction Soccer 1st Team (2010 & 2011); Rugby 1st Team (2010 & 2011) “Most Promising Rugby Player” Award (2010) School Athletics Captain (2010) Final artwork recieved Merit Award at IEB Johannesburg Exhibit (2011) Student Leader on the Student Represntative Council - S.R.C. (2011) “Best All-Rounder” Award recieved (2011)

January 2000 - November 2011

Primary Education

1st and 2nd year passed (3 distrinctions acheived in each) 3rd year passed - Bachelors Degree of Architecture received (with 4 distinctions and a distinction average achieved) Chosen for Deans List (2012, 2013 and 2014) Member of the Golden Key Society Recieved award for “Student in any year above first year, to submit best solution to a real life problem of a domestic or residential nature” (2013) Awarded Construction Merit Award (2013) Awarded Everite Prize for “best design utilizing concrete” (2014) Recieved Steel Institute award - “best design using steel components” (2014) Awarded “Top student to graduate from the undergraduate degree” (2014) After being chosen as one of the 6 finalists for the Boogertman+ Partners Design Challenge, [from all architectural students studying in Kenya, Ghana and South Africa], I further received The Design Merit Award Software Proficiency I am proficient and choose to work in Revit [3 years experience], AutoCAD [6 years experience], SketchUP [6 years experience], Photoshop [5 years experience], Indesign [5 years experience] and 3ds Max [1 year experience] I have completed basic training in AutoCAD, Photoshop and Indesign and an official Autodesk Advanced Revit Course 2

August 2015

Bachelors of Architectural Studies University of the Witwatersrand, JHB

February 2012 - October 2014

Tertiary Education

Benjamin Kollenberg | Curriculum Vitae

Reference List

Jan Siggelkow, Ten Brinke Berlin GmbH

[Regional Manager of Ten Brinke Berlin and Previous Employer] Tel. - (+49) 30 26 39 11 400; Fax - (+49) 30 26 39 11 410; jsiggelkow@tenbrinke.com Landgrafenstraße 15, D-10787, Berlin please see - www.tenbrinke-berlin.com

Pierre Swanepoel, StudioMAS Architects + Urban Designers (pty)Ltd. [Director of StudioMAS and Previous Employer] Tel. - (+27) 11 486 2979; Fax - (+27) 11 686 5399; Cell - (+27) 83 227 6380 pierres@studiomas.co.za Unit 3, Courtyards on Oxford , Forest Town, Johannesburg, 2193 please see - www.studiomas.co.za

Julian Michaels, Julian Michaels Architects ©

[Director of JMA and Previous Employer] Tel. - (+27) 11 483 2323; Fax - (+27) 11 483 3010; Cell - (+27) 83 292 1292 julian@archjma.co.za 50 1st Street, Abbotsford, Johanneburg, 2192 please see - www.julianmichaelsarchitects.co.za

Adrian Masarow, AMA Architects ©

[Director of AMA and Previous Employer] Tel - (+27) 11 807 7505; Fax - (+27) 11 807 7509; Cell - (+27) 83 378 2891 adrian@amagroup.co.za 131, 12th Avenue, Rivonia, Johannesburg, 2052 please see - www.amagroup.co.za

Ludwig Hansen, Ludwig Hansen A + Ud

[Supervisor of Bachelors Degree of Architecture program at University of the Witwatersrand] Tel. - (+27) 11 486 1468; Cell - (+27) 82 600 9424 ludwig@ludwighansen.co.za 31, Selkirk Rd, Parkview, Johanneburg, 2121 please see - letter of recommendation attached - www.ludwighansen.co.za

Scott Hunt, Study Doctor

[Past Manager at Study Doctors and as result Previous Employer] Cell - (+27) 79 883 1680 tutors@studydoctors.co.za please see - www.studydoctors.co.za 3

Once I completed my Bachelors degree of Architectural Studies, I began my year of working experience at studioMAS Johannesburg. I am extremely fortunate to have begun working for a company with a growing abundance of work - and no surplus of capacity - and along with four other newly-hired employee’s I began just a week after completing my exams. I worked on eight projects, in a variety of differing sectors and for a multiplicity of clients as well as in a assemblage of positions of responsibility. I spent the majority of my time working solely and directly under Pierre Swanepoel (Managing Director), for a total of five projects - ranging from a primary school, to an urban plan and implementation of a cycle route to the most noteable, The JHB Contemporary Art Foundation (a partner entity with the Pompidou Foundation). I have also been a part of and particularly enjoyed working on the three other projects in different design teams, ranging from three to ten members. It was a non-stop learning curve and an absolutely fantastic experience, being constantly inspired to achieve new things.

Julian Michaels Architects © After my second year at university, Julian Michaels took me in to his Johannesburg based practice as a draftsman to work on two small scale residential renovations. While I was there, I felt I learnt more than I had in the previous 6 months - it was non-stop exposure and was continually eye-opening and humbling, working to the point of practical detail I had never quite imagined existed.

AMA Architects © An internship at AMA Architects Johannesburg, during my very first summer break from my studies proved invaluable, in providing me my first practical experience in the architectural profession - teaching me important real world drafting techniques and standards, as well as hugely inspiring me.

Private Jobs Growing up as the first born to two architect parents, I have been almost constantly surrounded by the architectural profession. Most probably as a result of this upbringing, ever since I completed my first year of studies I have been involved in a multiplicity of projects mostly collaborating with architects looking for an extra pair of hands and a fresh outlook. This has afforded me the opportunity to view a huge variety of means to practice in the construction and design industry - from workshop drawings of steel staircases, to artworks. During my time studying, I worked part time tutoring individual school students (both as my own entity as well as under the Study Doctors umbrella), in Art, Science and Maths. The main motive began as a means to support myself, however I really enjoyed getting involved in the respective studies and the lives of the students I was tutoring. 4

Nov 2014 - July 2016

StudioMAS [Architecture + Urban Design] (pty)Ltd.

Jan 2014 - Feb 2014

I was extremely fortunate to be offered a paid internship at the multi-facetted Ten Brinke office in Berlin, as an inhouse architectural consultant. This was incredible exposure to a completely dissimilar development context and a whole new manifesto of actualisation – based in one of the fastest growing cities in the whole. The scale of work, intensity of production, professionality and efficiency was something I couldn’t quite have conceptualised beforehand. In addition to the projects involved with, living and working in Berlin was constantly inspiring from both an architectural, fine arts as well as sociological perspective.

Jan 2013 - Feb 2013

Ten Brinke Berlin GmbH

Jan 2013 - Present

Professional Experience

Sep 2016 - Oct 2016

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Benjamin Kollenberg | Undergraduate Portfolio

University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg

www.wits.ac.za

I began to study architecture, straight away as soon as I completed my primary education. I always knew that it was what I wanted to do and almost instantaneously I began to love what I was studying (maybe even including the one or two all-nighters). At the university, we had a diverse array of lecturers and supervisors throughout the three years, as well as even more external moderators that we were exposed to. The projects began particularly conceptual and as we transcended through the program became more and more practical as well as obviously exponentially more challenging. This process saw us, beginning with artworks and compositional challenges, designing spaces and ultimately housing (often within as restricted an area possible), before moving on the alternative mixed use developments, forcing us to take a stand and formulate design opinions. As we progressed, we began to focus on construction a the detailing required to actually build these intricately woven designs conceptualised and finally we were designing all kinds of buildings, from feasible office spaces to specialised film studios and museums, all the while following these designs through with construction drawings. Throughout my studies, I was always involved in other creative forms of expression - from being a part of a band to solo artworks. These practices were hugely imfluenced b my studies, as a result of both the time allocated to the course, but also by all that we were constantly learning and being exposed to. However, it is undeniable that these external practices too inflcuenced the university work I was producing at the time.

Benjamin Kollenberg | Undergraduate Portfolio

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A Stranger in the Village External Artwork

November 2011

A Stranger in the Village is based on the age old idiom, beauty exists in the eye of the beholder. It talks to the unavoidably subjective manner of social othering - as a result of one, or even many being different - and the power plays in the manifestation of divides Here in the work, a series of reflective algorithms have been utilized to distort the physical model, however when viewed in the reflection of a bent (almost incidental) sheet of steel, the distortions portray the regularity of a cube. It aims to confuse the viewer as to what is correct, which is acceptable as well as who gets to choose these.

Benjamin Kollenberg | Undergraduate Portfolio

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House Buthelezi First Year Design

September 2012

The final design project given of first year was a residency for a South Africa artist, sited anywhere on The Melville Koppie. I was assigned Mbongeni Buthelezi, creates truly unique and seemingly abstract artworks, by melting coloured plastics to enormous rectilinear canvases, in which the subject matter would, upon taking a few steps back, suddenly became recognisable. House Buthelezi consists of a huge variety of easily adaptable spaces, created by a series of dynamic planes. They were able to be configured in a myriad of arrangements according to the desired ratio between private and public. The private facilities of the residence are partitioned off by changes in level - on the interior - as well as by protruding planes – on the exterior – so that there is still an element of privacy to Buthelezi’s living. This planar house similar to Buthelezi’s art comprises of abstract elements - the extrusions - that exist as interpretive divisions, almost abstract until one actually fully experiences the resultant space created.

Benjamin Kollenberg | Undergraduate Portfolio

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Urban Gymnasium Second Year Design September 2013 Our final project of second year was to design a gymnasium, including a training gym and any two sports fields â&#x20AC;&#x201C; action football and basketball were my two elected - and was sited in Rosettenville, where again we were afforded the choice between the city centre or positioned in, nearby Wemmer Pan Park. I chose the urban gymnasium as I found the pedestrian highway along 1st street, the spine of the site, fascinating. My design was thus centered on this concept of movement - the movement around the gymnasium, through a gymnasium as well as the multiplicity of activities to take place inside a gymnasium. The form as well as partii of the development emphasise perceptions of movement and thereby create a communal consciousness of dissimilar collective movements. The gymnasium design proposes a new pedestrian route of travel, an arcade running through the building envelope. However this new route is by no means to be bound by the building at all, but merely provides much needed access from 2nd street to the marketplace of 1st street. The entire ground floor is essentially purely public, with very few controlling measures in place. The proposed notion is that similar to the market street, if the public utilizes a space and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s necessary to their everyday life, it will be maintained by the general population in a joint venture with the gym management. There are however a private and substantially more controlled facilities to the structure and these begin from the ground floor upwards â&#x20AC;&#x201C; essentially the building begins one floor up. All of the internal spaces, however, have an emphasized and integral relationship, in terms of visibility and connectivity, between the inside and out.

Street Level Perspective [left] and Exploded Axonometric [above] This project marked the beginning of an investigation into digital production methods and a variety of differing means being used to convey all the same message 11

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The Academy Third Year Design April 2014v

One of our first design projects of third year required us to design a Football Academy (for both soccer training and secular education) and Residence for young footballers scouted by Wits. It was sited on an approximately 30 degree hillside, on the Northwards residence property. After an extensive and particularly interesting investigation into this proposed site, I decided to base my design on a culmination and re-interpretation of the surrounding contexts. There were three particular contextual notions for inspiration. At the top of the slope, just south of the proposed site there is a brilliant example of early 20th century architecture, the Northwards residence designed by Sir Herbert Baker. Past the northern boundary, however is a fascinating suburb in the evolution of Johannesburg architecture, Forest Town and the last context is most probably the most important, being the immediate, untouched hillside, teeming with vegetation and natural undulating forms. The Academy takes huge influence from this with the mere forms paying homage to the existing undulations as well as the fact that the building is proposed to function in an almost entirely sustainable manner, utilizing what is already existing and what natural procedures are already in place. The academy brings those contexts together and holds them tight in an stadium type atmosphere – resulting from hard external edges and soft internal ones – in a manner similar to that in which football brings people together.

Single point pivotting galvanised steel shutter doors, mchanically operated - from both inside and out

Precast concrete external sills and internal counters, supporting aluminium window frames and glazing, set back from facade face - in almost constant shade in summer sun, with max. direct sunlight in winter

Natural stone quarried through excavations on site, contained by steel gabion walls, supported and re inforced by 152x152mm steel “H” section

Cross Section and Perimeter Section This project was working through a variety of scales as a means to design a proposal sucessful in overall actualisation, robust solutions and also through the resultant experience of the occupants 12

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Museum of Human Rights Third Year Design and Construction June 2014

Halfway through third year we were tasked with designing a high-rise human rights museum to be situated, in the student hub of Braamfontein. The building was in its essence designed to celebrate the South African individual. This was the underlying concept to the design. Similarly to the manner in which South Africa transcended so much hardship in such an absolutely united effort â&#x20AC;&#x201C; which resulted in the actualisation of the proposal - so too the museum intended to act as a celebration of the notion of collective effort in a multiplicity of spaces and experiences. The architectural elements are designed representing this proposed collective spirit â&#x20AC;&#x201C; both visibly and tangibly - whilst still portraying the collective journey undertaken.

The proposed building has separated some of its many dissimilar facilities in form and experiences as a means to emphasise their individuality and their own unique integration in the collective whole of the precinct, and yet subtly and simultaneously combined them through outside and truly public spaces intended for free usage by all inhabitant â&#x20AC;&#x201C; thus bringing them together

Benjamin Kollenberg | Undergraduate Portfolio

Longitudinal Section The section throughout the building was envisioned as a phenomenological journey through the museum - playing with linkage and division through emphasised through the visual experience

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Museum of Human Rights

Facade developement A new composite concrete modular facade was developed as a means to both passive retain heat and coolth as well as to emphasize the celebration of a collective individuality epitomized throughout the proposal

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Longitudinal Section - Working Drawing Through the course of the project, the building was investigated through a variety of manner over a multiplicty of scales

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Film Factory

Third Year Design October 2014

The Final design project of our undergraduate degree was a production studio situated in the historically rich, central business district of Germiston. The provided site opened up onto a public square, containing the old Germiston Library building â&#x20AC;&#x201C; an intricate early 19th century architectural showcase, proposed to be to renovated into a theatre in the near future. This allowed both the opportunity to open and integrate the proposed building into this public square but also the opportunity to create an arts precinct and link the two edifices. Through the proposed design a huge emphasis has been placed on the creation of as functional and pleasant a public space possible, defining and complimenting it at every opportunity. However, this is simply a selfless act of design, but also prioritized the method in which the resultant vibrant public space will hugely compliment any surrounding building. These studios arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t just any building though. They form a physical manifestation of the creative expression that is the South African Art Industry. The architectural language and forms used, should be to constantly inspire an obviously functional, but also creative and quirky working environment, and the open space and eventual precinct are as mucha part of this inspiration as any single architectural element. This ground floor plan is depicted to the right, with the development of the plan shown below.

Benjamin Kollenberg | Undergraduate Portfolio

The core concept of this development is to be the simple yet contradictory phrase ‘United through Diversity’. Any African, certainly any South African and in particularly, any ‘Joburger’ will understand what an integral notion this juxtaposition represents both historically and culturally. It is quite an astounding concept, just how diverse the population is, and yet how integral every single part is and it is actually particularly inspiring. These notions can only really be personified through the focus of human activity. The architecture will be molded almost entirely around the human scale and experience to provide an environment, encouraging interaction and cooperation. These notions are all good and well to represent with the architecture, however they only really bear intrinsic value once tangible. As a result of this, the core to the functional and programmatic design of the proposed studios, should revolve around the creation of this tangible personification of the concept - collectivity through a collaboration of individual elements, emphasized in their individuality yet collectively creating the whole which will eventually become a small district.

Southern Elevation looking on the main public square This elevation talks to the context as well as the above mentioned concept in terms of its proportion, materiality, inclusive forms as well as the program utilized in the private public interface.

Benjamin Kollenberg | Undergraduate Portfolio

Film Factory

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Longitudinal Sections, cutting East-West and facing North The project again was conceptualised and actualised through a multiplicity of scales, from the urban plan to the human scale of tangibility, however there was then an emphasised consideration for the urban scale once more through that tangibility.

Benjamin Kollenberg | Professional Portfolio

studioMAS Architects + Urban Designers // Ten Brinke Berlin // Private Jobs www.studiomas.co.za // www.tenbrinke.com // www.issuu.com/benjaminkollenberg

This next body of work exhibited in this portfolio has been completed, some on my own but most in collaboration with a host of other talented professionals, from November 2014 until today, as a part of my experience working for studioMAS Architects and Urban Designers and thereafter Ten Brinke Berlin. As the names suggest, both firms work on a huge range of developments, in a variety of scales and across an absolute multiplicty of contexts. As this portfolio is indicative of the work I have produced, (and not actually all the work I have done) I have had to chose select projects to portray. I have chosen 4 studioMAS projects - out of the total 10 I have been involved with - included a single project from Ten Brinke - of total of 4 during my involvment there - as well as a final artwork I produced alongside a friend and colleague as a private job. All these project have been included for many reasons, however the defining considerations are the fact that they are all hugely diverse, indicative of the vast spectrum of intellectual consideration that has occured. I also truly believe that in these projects, there exists experiences definitive of my own continually evolving architectural manifesto, for reasons of both success or failure. The final reason that these are the select projects to make into the collective portfolio is that I genuinely enjoyed working on all of them and have really had a lot of fun being involved.

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Jan Celliers

StudioMAS A + UD August 2015 Client : Jan Celliers Primary School Contractor : Acacia Constructions Personal Role : Project Architect (alongside StudioMAS director) Jan Celliers Primary school is an 80 year old institution in northern Johannesburg, and undoubtedly one of the best primary schools in the country. It functions as an amalgamation of age old tradition and an inspired technological movement of 21st century education. The school, as with any institution spanning a vast number of year, has to be developed and the architecture rejuvenated from time to time. However this very easily results in a disjointed and haphazard vernacular or alternatively an stagnant architecture, stuck in the past. We were recently tasked with the development of an urban framework as well as the architectural edifices to fit into the plan, as a means to take the facilities forward. The overall concept of our approach was to accommodate for and improve the existing facilities currently in use as well as provide the necessary revitalising expansion, so vital to the schools growth and continued educational merit. As can be seen, the proposal begins to prioritize the creation of meaningful open space in and around the new and existing buildings. Space that has been considered in terms of its individual varying levels of security and exposure, but also considered and differentiated alongside their dissimilar functions.

Benjamin Kollenberg | Professional Portfolio

Elevations and Sectional Elevations of the new Cultural Centre These drawings depict the amalgamation of new and old, showing both the juxtaposition and the but also the manner in which the new pays homage to the existing heritage. This became a major informant in the overall design process and opened the discussion of how to move forward through contemporary architecture, whilst still celebrating the existing heritage.

3mm polished brass plate to follow reveal of door 44mm solid meranti frame to be varnished and sealed

30x50mm removable mentis mesh grating to be flush with floor level 3mm steel reveal on bottom top and side reveals

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50x50mm Aluminium frame and door by Alumac 3mm polished brass plate to follow reveal of door 32mm pine subframe on bottom, top and side reveals with 10x16mm groove cut for DPM &DPC

3mm polished brass plate to follow reveal of door fixed to timber with 6mm counter sunk self tapping brass screws at 600mm c/c

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Screed to be cast up against 50x50mm galvanized steel angle

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The architectural manifestations of the new facilities fit very much into the urbanJan plan Celliers creating holistic open space, yet they then become their own unique entities on the inside as a particular focus is very much placed on the individual functionality of the differing programs. These spaces are very consciously designed to be robust and versatile in their respective continued usages and they have the capacity to be utilized for the next 80 years with minimal intervention. As is the nature of a school, the presence of inhabitants to the new buildings fluctuates yearly and for this we have accommodated quick, efficient and inexpensive alterations possible to be made, within the existing frameworks built â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the potential for a dry walling divide or a sound system upgrade are just two examples â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and without altering at all the existing or new functional buildings. This develops a sustainable culture of natural growth for the school moving forward. There were huge time constraints imposed on the project, as we were to build everything (a cultural centre along with a new multi-media hall, two new sets of classrooms, an open air amphitheater as well as a new swimming pool) between the close of the school 2014 and the open 2016. As a result of the above mentioned, it was an absolute whirlwind of a project, working through a multitude of collaborations. Yet all the while, designing for kids and two months later seeing them running about, appreciating that brand new space really did result in a particularly fun and rewarding project.

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Door Plan @ 1000mm above TOC (showing handle detail) Scale 1:5

Door Plan @ 1800mm above TOC (showing rebate detail) Scale 1:5

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Kgoro Precinct, Rivonia Block StudioMAS A + UD August 2015 Client : Regiments Capital Contractor : Unknown Personal Role : Architectural Assistant (alongside project architect and studioMAS director) The suburb of Sandton, is irrefutably the fastest growing architectural and urban development in Africa and as a result has become easily the busiest central business district in the country. However, this rapid growth poses a variety of fundamental issues, both practical and academic and this rapid rate of development means that these need to be solved simultaneous to its continual evolution. The Kgoro (meaning Gateway) precinct is one of the first design projects in Sandton to begin to address these contemporary issues in a sustainable manner advocating a pleasant and viable typology for future inhabitance.

It is essentially a mixed use development, surrounding a series of open (and prioritized) public spaces, consisting of retail, residential, offices, hotels as well as recreational facilities . The entire precinct has been built above a massive parking garage basement and above the Sandton Gautrain station (the biggest station in the underground train system, spreading across Gauteng). A proactive emphasis has been directed towards this unique position in an attempt to address the transportational issues surrounding Sandton in particular and ease into a sustainable lifestyle transcending the brackets of class. While addressing all these issues and focusing on a truly public integration between the dissimilar programs

within the precinct, we were also afforded the opportunity to create a architectural framework for all the buildings as well as design the most prominent one - The Rivonia Block, pictured above. In all of the architectural manifestations, a certain uniqueness to the buildings is celebrated, to create a cosmopolitan type atmosphere from a collection of all the architectural languages, expressing this multiplicity of combined notions and programs throughout the development. Similarly there is also a huge variety of open space, throughout the precinct, in a variety of different forms, from the truly public square, to a entirely private balcony 12 storeys up - yet all these spaces have a certain connectivity between them bringing the precinct together in a holistic sense.

Above is The Rivonia Block seen from the main public square within the precinct, while below the entire precint plans are portrayed These drawings depict the myriad of scales worked within, while designing both the framework as well as an edifice to fit within the plan. This project is truly the first of its kind in Johannesburg and an inredible collaboration between many talented designers.

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Sandton Drive Link Bridge StudioMAS A + UD November 2015 Client : Growthpoint Properties, Liberty Properties, Joburg Developement Agency, Joburg Roads Agency Contractor : Unkown Personal Role : Project Architect (alongside studioMAS director) Rosebank and Sandton are two of the most rapidly developing contexts in South Africa, having now successfully created a shift from the old Johannesburg downtown central business district, to a newer built up business super-suburb. Despite the mere 4,5km between the two, it easily takes 20 minutes to drive from one to the next, as a result of the insurmountable influx of activity and constant presence. This shift created has exposed and exemplified the completely indulgent and entirely unsustainable transportational nature of Johannesburg life.

The City of Johannesburg has been making a very conscious effort to promote alternate means of transport, attempting to bridge the so actively perceived divide between classes. In line with this current initiative we (as studioMAS A + UD) were afforded the opportunity to design a cycle route from Rosebank through to Sandton, in an attempt to connect the two in a sustainable manner. The approach decided upon for the cycle lanes is different to any other individual cycle lane in Joburg. We have opted very much against developing a recognisable typology or at least the one size fits all approach and have designed all the various road edge conditions individually, although always paying careful attention to the ease of transition between any two treatments.

The cycle route culminates midway down Sandton Dr - a six lane, extremely high intensity arterial route - where the monumental linkage bridge has been sited. This bridge, is integral in tying together a multiplicty of urban elements absolutely vital in the sustainable functioning of Sandton - as portrayed above. We (alongisde the various clients) expanded the definition of the bridge extended its regenerational properties to a surrounding radius of 500m. These additional facilities include bicycle storage, linkages into public transport facilities, a constant vigilance, properly public pause areas as well as the obvious connectivity of either sides of an extremely dangerous road. All these elements aside, it initiates a comfortable presence out onto the street and public interfaces that the surrounding buildings desperately lack.

Architecturally the bridge, aesthetically indicates its statement we intend to make by visibly prioritising the collective human figure at a human scale over one travelling in a private vehicle below. There is a serious lack of humane architecture in Sandton a heart of development this issue is epitomized in the lack of public spaces. The walkway is protected by lasercut steel panelling arching around the human figure, providing the illusion of more space than actual as well as allowing a particularly gentle and comfortable dissuasion of one from the edge. This is extremely important in preventing the general public from both jumping over but also throwing anything down - yet is portrayed in a particularly polite manner.

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JCAF Substation StudioMAS A + UD July 2016 Client : Johannesburg Contemporary Art Foundation Contractor : RAD Projects Personal Role : Project Architect (alongside studioMAS director)

An alteration to the historic Forest Town Substation began roughly 10 years ago and ha since then taken the form of a multiplicity of proposals eventually settling on the location for the new Johannesburg Contemporary Art Foundation (JCAF). This beautiful example of early modernist architecture is extremely rare in Johannesburg, and the various proposals all revolved around the conservation of the existing. The JCAF then took this notion one step further in celebrating the existing building as well as the transformation of Johannesburg this edifice has been through â&#x20AC;&#x201C; at least since its earliest records dating back to 1910. From the very conceptualisation there was a very clear intention to define exactly what was new and what is the renovated existing. This brought about many complex philosophical dilemmas in addition to the construction or architectural complications in working with a one-hundred-year-old building. The design constantly emphasises the robust nature of the existing, and matches it in a proposal to last the next one hundred years

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The vast majority of design work carried out, existed at the smallest of scales, detailing that interface and integrating the two dichotomies

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The definition of old and new has been achieved through a multitude of manner, over a multiplicity of scales. The materiality is the most obvious and tangible â&#x20AC;&#x201C; through which all new work was carried out in steel and glass, while renovations to the old utilized only the methods and materials in existence at the time of the initial construction. The proposal extends to such a minute scale wherein the fixing up and replacing of damaged walls was only carried out to the extent that the small stock of original brickwork found in storage (and scavenged through the alteration process) could afford. The extent of collaboration through this project was absolutely eye opening due to the scale of work. The JCAF exists as a sister gallery to the Pompidou Paris and as a result, leading consultants from all over the globe were involved in the process â&#x20AC;&#x201C; many a time flown into South Africa to coordinate mock-up testing on site. These collaborations aside, the local team included the client, the curator and the architect scrutinising every decision to come to decisions wholly believed in through both a philosophical as well as practical viewpoint

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Glass Box Perimeter Section The glass box in between the two outbuildings was conceptualised as a visually light connection, emphasising the sense of approach by celebrating the new.

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Art has always been a point of reference in both my general interests as well as in terms of my work put into practice. Midway through 2015 Gabriel Hope, a South African contemporary artist, approached me to create a collaborative piece - he always having been fascinated in architecture and myself having been constantly intrigued by the arts. The theme was chosen to be that interface and formal relationship between the two practices. The work

then begins to raise some fundamental questions of the conclusive differences and perceptions dividing the two perhaps unnecessarily so. The definitive line between the artist and architect is an age old grey area - simultaneously intrinsically different yet so interrelated. The artwork set was in the medium of blueprints, produced using modern print making materials and methods, yet still paying homage to a bygone era of architectural representation.

Hope and myself both went to the same university, along with tens of thousands of other students, yet both had the exact same interesting and exclusive experience within our respective faculties. It is most probably a universal experience, however exists too through many notions of everyday life - where so often we do what we do because we do it. In ARCB3002 we purposefully antagonised many rules and regulations specifically taught opposite through the architectural discipline and within the world of the arts.

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South Africa / Czech Republic / Austria / Slovenia / Italy / Germany / Spain / Israel / Palestine / Jordan / India / Philippines / South Africa

In June 2016, I was soon to finish all working drawings of the JCAF alteration, and had begun to dabble in other projects in the office, when I realised that this is the perfect opportunity to try something new â&#x20AC;&#x201C; first of all for the new experience, but also such that I wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to leave a project midway considering I had already decided to continue my postgraduate studies in 2017. I managed to acquire an internship with Ten Brinke in Berlin and this resulted in the perfect manner of exposure. I finished working for StudioMAS at the end of July 2016 and travelled for a month before beginning at Ten Brinke, only to travel for another three months following the internship. This experience, traversed three continents (Africa, Europe and Asia), as I moved through twelve countries having such a variety of experiences throughout. I think this had a greater effect on me than I ever thought would be possible. It absolutely reiterated my love for discovery and new experiences, depicting at times the absolute comfort of my life back home. Upon re-entering Johannesburg I was further overwhelmed at the opportunities and experiences available I had available in my every day and became inspired to squeeze absolutely all I can out of them. The following spread portrays a snapshot of six months of travelling and working abroad, which whether consciously or not was viewed through a particularly architectural lens.

Guggenheim, Bilbao, Spain In the process of heading down to Barcelona, I was determined to stop off for a day in Bilbao to experience the Guggenheim Gallery. I spent 8 hours in Bilbao and 8 hours in the gallery! The building was just as overwhelming as expected, immediately playing with perceptions of possibilities predetermined through architectural practice, however the art within was just an incredible. There was a fantastic Francis Bacon exhibit on at the time, but the permanent sweeping forms of Richard Serra were undeniably the highlight

Kraftwerk Berliner Liste, Berlin, Germany While living and working in Berlin, I was still in touch with the Johannesburg based, Kalashnikov Gallery, who were at the time attempting to open a new Berlin based counterpart. As a result I often offered my services, especially in the contemporary Art Fairs strewn across the city. I didnt manage much representation for the gallery, however the exposure to extremely proactive contemporary art was hugely inspiring - expanding my boundaries from technology to perception.

Jewish Museum, Berlin, Germany A few weeks into my stay, I began my architectural pilgrimage throughout the city. The Jewish Museum had always been a fascination of mine, existing in a city so rife with both scars and memorials. I hardly noticed the any of the exhibition displayed as I poured through the openings and voids, allowing myself to engage with the phenomenological building as it dictated. The resultant experience is certainly an overwhelming experience as there is just so much consideration in every turn

Treptower Park, Berlin, Germany As I arrived in Berlin, the whirlwind certainly did not stop. I was thrown into the deep end at work, whilst simultaneously diving into an intense exploration in one of the most fascinating cities, I had ever experienced. Just a few days after I arrived, I discovered that Lollapalooza was about to take place in the Treptower Park - a big bold and brutal park in East Berlin - and I was fortunate enough to come across tickets from a new work colleague. The park had always fascinated me, but this was a whole new experience of it

Swiss Pavilion, Venice Bieannale, Venice, Italy Making my way through Eastern Europe towards my upcoming job in Berlin, I could not help but invest in a blur of a week diving through the Venice Bieannale. It was an absolute whirlwind, hardly even stopping to eat as I delved through exhibition after exhibition, only making my way home at night to continue to read and draw. It was all encompassing and easily one of the most engaged weeks of my architectural career

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Roman Citadel, Jerash, Jordan Previously, unbeknownst to me, Jerash in northern Jordan contains the wholly intact citadels remnant of the Roman Empire extremely well preserved but also a seemingly integral part of the city, both for the development of the city as well as the tourism it brings. I had never experienced anything like these manifestation, other than through my imagination of ruins, and the lack of promotional publicity resulted in the experience being completely overwhelming

Wadi Rum Valley, Jordan In a slightly a spontaneous move I arrived at the Jordanian border, desperate to experience the desert. A bedouin I met there was just as intrigued by myself as I was by him and took me in to stay with him in the Wadi Rum Valley for a week. This was a previously unimaginable lived experience, so unlike anything I had ever seen, and yet still instinctually relateable. The vastness and change of scale experienced very quickly brings up existential notions of mortality and a sense of perspective upon arrival back in the urban sprawl.

Bauhaus Apartment Block, Tel Aviv, Israel I decided to head over to Israel next, both as a result of an intense fascination, but also to meet up with a friend of mine from Addis Ababa. I was absolutely blown away at the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;white cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; of Tel Aviv. The purity of architecture existent in the detailing as well as the urban design was absolutely incredible and I was constantly shocked to find another masterpiece around almost every corner. I landed up determined to convince my econimist friend of the beauty and put together a variety of impomptu architectural tours

Barcelona Pavilion, Barcelona, Spain There were even a few opportunities I managed to arrange, where I guided tours of the Barcelona Pavilion to residents of a nearby hostel - mostly thanks to our first year history lectures. This building is the epitome of timeles architecture, so often confusing one as to the design date and as a result these guided tours, always began at the neighbouring neo-classic Palau Nacional built in exactly the same year. This building landed up inspring everyone I saw there and it was incredible seeing it through their eyes.

Museu Blau, Barcelona, Spain While in Barcelona, my list of significant architectural manifestations continually grew as I ventured through the city - luckily the job of a bartender afforded me many full days of exploring. The Museu Blau, by Herzog and de Meuron, took me by complete surprise being such a successful actualisation of the possible interface of concept and program. The big blue building is immediatly a formiddible sight however continues to intrigue (and impress) down to the smallest detail.

MACBA, Barcelona, Spain Upon arrival in Barcelona, I was immediately drawing to the Museum of Contemporary Art (Richard Meier) and its incredible urban context. I managed to organise a bartending job, in a nearby pub and as a result spent many hours in and around the incredible building, attending each of their exhibition openings during my time there. The clean white lines of the edifice are constantly experienced in juxtaposition to the social pandemonium surrounding and within that interface, there exists an architectural paradise.

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Kibbutz Shdemama, Ashdod, Israel Through the multiplicity of contexts visitted, I always attempted to prioritize an integrated experience, through which I became a part of the everyday social practices of the various cities. I achieved this most successfully by taking on a multiplicity of jobs - both as a means to support myself as well as to involve myself on a slightly deeper level. In Israel, I managed to organise myself a job as a construction worker, building a house just outside of Ashdod and this was certainly an eye opening experience for myself, having almost always practiced from behind a screen - obviously with a good few site visits here or there included. The physical labour, especially in its repetitive actualisation is a whole other world of architecture, I am so glad to have been a part of, even if particularly relieved to not be primarily involved on a day to day basis

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All of these experiences and projects in particular have been progressively informing my continually evolving design manifesto. They have intrinsically influenced where I am today, constantly growing my passion and love for the notion of creation. I am very excited to be a part of this competition and am certainly looking forward to being exposed to what will hopefully be yet another definitive experience within the multifacetted architectural practice.

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Image Source Appendix Page 27 / Kgoro Precinct, Rivonia Block, Render

Recieved from StudioMAS A + UD [pty]Ltd., courtesy of Regiment Capital [pty]Ltd. (2015, October)

Image owned by Regiment Capital [pty]Ltd. and used with permission

Produced by Fictional Pixel Â© (2015, September) - Co-ordinated by StudioMAS A + UD [pty]Ltd. Urban Design by StudioMAS A + UD [pty]Ltd. Architecture by StudioMAS A + UD [pty]Ltd.

Page 28 / Sandton Drive Link Bridge Aerial, Render

Recieved from Nicolas Bischoff , courtesy of BURN, Visual Illustration CC. (2015, October) Image owned by Growthpoint Properties [pty]Ltd. and used with permission Produced by BURN, Visual Illustration CC. (2015, September) - Co-ordinated by StudioMAS A + UD [pty]Ltd. Urban Design by StudioMAS A + UD [pty]Ltd.

Architecture by StudioMAS A + UD [pty]Ltd.

Page 34 / Saatwinklerdamm Courtyard, Render

Recieved from VICE Visualizations GmbH., courtesy of Ten Brinke Berlin GmbH. (2016, October)

Image owned by Ten Brinke Berlin GmbH. and used with permission

Produced by VICE Visualisations (2016, September) - Co-ordinated by Ten Brinke Berlin GmbH Model built by Architekturburo Kottmair

Page 40 / Benjamin Kollenberg Welding, Photograph

Recieved from Kotzen, A., courtesy of Kotzen, A.,. (2017, June) Image owned by Kotzen, A,. and used with permission Produced by Kotzen, A., (2016, November)

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