Portfolio Bonnie O. Bopela

P O R T F O L I O BONNIE O. BOPELA

A selection of work from 2019 - 2021

P O R T F O L I O BONNIE O. BOPELA

A selection of work from 2019 - 2021

DOCUMENTS

PROJECT 1:

HARVEST SO-TIETY MIXED-USE BUILDING BRIEF

YEAR : BAS HONOURS 2021

Negotiating difference, adaptability, and dual-use through mixed strategies around the home, work and leisure. This project aimed to design a mixed-use building in Rosebank, including affordable housing and shared space.

Site Location : Jan Smuts Rd

Proposal Area : 1800 sqm

CONCEPT

The concept development of this project responds to food security within Johannesburg. It explores how architecture can play a role in combating it as the world move toward sustainable food production.

This project utilises food as a creative place-making tool of social connection by growing or cooking healthy foods, it creates a path equitable food access to residents in the city and economic emancipation for local culinary artists.

GROUND FLOOR RESTAURANTS, VEGGIE MARKET FIRST FLOOR CULINARY SCHOOL

UNIT PLAN INTERIOR

NORTH ELEVATION

EAST ELEVATION

FACING NORTH COURTYARD

SECTIONAL ELEVATION

ATLAS OF DECAY: ANALYSIS OF FIRE

PROJECT 2:

ATLAS OF DECAY: ANALYSIS OF FIRE

YEAR : BAS HONOURS 2021

BRIEF

Can we begin to imagine a world after ruination and what it would look? We identified and analysed fire as a present product of ruination in Johannesburg's postcolonial context.

Site Location : London Rd, Alexandra Johannesburg Abel Rd,Hilbrow Johannesburg

CONCEPT

As a result of the lack of fire prevention and fire fighting infrastructure in Johannesburg, many households, buildings and communities are left destitute by frequent fires. The project utilises Forensic Architecture to investigate recent significant fires in Johannesburg’s CBD and informal settlements.

From there, I interrogated current methods of fire escape within the city as they have proven ineffective in ensuring safe passage for all residents in the event of a fire and proposed fire escape slides as an additional means of escape. The fire escape slides would also act as a daily circulation through an elevated promenade. That connects activities, and businesses within, around and under the buildings.

LACK OF RELIABLE AND SAFE ENERGY , A CAUSE OF FIRE

LACK OF FIRE TRUCKS LEADING TO COMMUNITIES FIGHTING THEIR OWN FIRES

FORENSIC ANALYSIS OF THE ALEX FIRE

CONCEPTUALIZATION OF FIRE ESCAPE SLIDE

CONNECTING DIFFERENT SPACES IN THE CITY.

CONCEPTUALIZATION OF FIRE ESCAPE TO ACTIVITIES WITHIN AND AROUND BUILDING

MIXED-USED RESIDENTIAL BUILDING

YEAR : BAS 2019

To propose a mixed-use urban village with student accommodation, apartment units and a commercial ground floor.

Site Location: Rick Turners Rd, Durban

Proposal Area: 2700 sqm

BRIEF CONCEPT

The proposal provides a building that expands across the site allowing the commercial spaces to spill into multiple communal areas around the building.

In response to the already dynamic student culture in and around the UKZN Howard College campus, the building’s design encourages interaction between the residents, visitors and the building.

Multi-layered roof terraces soften the contrast between build form and landscape. They also allow visitors to distinguish between public and private functions.

From the residential wing, the inhabitants' view of the layered roof garden extends toward and connects to the green hills of the UKZN landscape.

SITE PLAN AXONOMETRIC

SECTIONAL ELEVATION

GROUND FLOOR COMMERCIAL

PROJECT 4: COMMUNITY CENTRE

YEAR : BAS 2019

BRIEF

To propose a community centre for the Bulwer neighbourhood

Site Location : Bulwer Rd, Durban

Proposal Area : 300 sqm

CONCEPT

The proposal celebrates the vibrant culture of the Bulwer community and satisfies the apparent desire for freedom of artistic expression. The existing site sits next to the NSA Gallery, which is the beating heart of art, architecture and history in the context of Durban.

The form maintains the natural pedestrian route through the site. Solid planes divide different functions and serve as blank canvases for local artists to paint on. The building is not only a community hall but an outdoor gallery and promenade that partners with the adjacent NSA gallery to bring the area to its full potential

CONCEPTUAL MASSING

EAST

OUTDOOR STREET ART GALLERY FACING NORTH

OUTDOOR STREET ART GALLERY FACING

NEP PETROL STATION

PROJECT 1: NEP PETROL STATION BRIEF

Proposed Additions and alteration for New Energy Petroleum.

Site Location: Phoenix industrial Park, Phoenix, Durban

Duration of Participation: 2 months

RESPONSIBILITIES

Door and window schedule revisions.

Revising elevations.

Preparing drawings for council submission

Building a model on SketchUp.

Rendering on Lumion and Photoshop

MUT ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING LABS

PROJECT 2: MUT ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING LABS BRIEF

Proposed New building for CMQS and Electrical engineering laboratories and offices for Mangusothu University of Technology.

Duration if participation : 11 months Site Location : Umlazi S, Durban

RESPONSIBILITIES

Drawing detailed section through the CMQS department.

Drawing Updated Elevations.

Updating window and door schedules.

Designing 'Coming soon' Poster for the construction site.

Balustrade Details.

RENDER PRODUCED ON SKETCHUP AND LUMION

AUTHOR: PGA ARCHITECTS

AUTHOR: BONNIE BOPELA

ELEVATIONS PRODUCED ON AUTOCAD

AUTHOR: BONNIE BOPELA

COMING SOON CONSTRUCTION SIGN PRODUCED ON PHOTOSHOP

AUTHOR: BONNIE BOPELA

PROJECT

PROJECT 1: BLUE

Medium : Black white and blue acrylic paint

Date Completed : March 2020

" Runnin' around, catching up all that light. In moonlight, black boys look blue, that's what I'm gonna call you."

Moonlight (Film), 2016

Author : Bonnie Bopela

PHOTO

PROJECT 2: A LOCK-DOWN GRADUATION PHOTO

Author : Bonnie Bopela

LOCK-DOWN GRADUATION

Date Completed : June 2020

The cancellation of the 2020 graduation ceremonies due to covid robbed my family of an opportunity to celebrate. My mother expressed how she wished we could have at leasttakenapicturetogetherinmygraduation gown.

This image illustrates the graduation photo we nevergottotakeandisatokenofappreciation to my mother.

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PROJECT 02

Medium : Digital hand-drawing produced on Photoshop

GURU'S EATERY BUSINESS CARD

PROJECT

PROJECT 3: GURU'S EATERY BUSINESS

CARDS

Medium : digital illustration produced on Photoshop

Date Completed : august 2020

This is a commissioned business card design to capture the essence of the guru’s eatery logo and the founder himself.

Author : Bonnie Bopela

MAEVE MILLAY

PROJECT

PROJECT 4: MAEVE MILLAY

Medium

Date Completed : June 2020

Inspired by her charisma, intelligence, passion and enduring determination, this is a fan art illustrationmadeoutofloveforThandiNewton's performance as Maeve Millay in Westworld.

Author : Bonnie Bopela

: digital illustration produced on Photoshop