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STREET LIFE IN IVORY PARK The township informal economy is part of South Africaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s urban future. Our population is steadily increasing, yet the formal labour market cannot absorb all work-seekers. With few formal employment opportunities, the poor seek livelihoods in the township in informal economic activities, with street trade, micro-manufacturing and small household businesses often providing an entry point. These micro-enterprises provide an income for the business operator, employment opportunities for friends and relatives and a service to residents, providing them with access to goods and services that are convenient, accessible and often cheap. Informal businesses should not be seen as a problem, but as a solution to unemployment, low skills, and the inclusion of the marginalised within the South African economy.

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GIfA Awards 2015 GIfA President - Daniel van der Merwe GIfA is a voluntary association established in 1996 and incorporates the Gauteng region of the previous Transvaal Institute for Architects (founded in 1909). The Institute is a member of SACAP (SA Council for the Architectural profession) and is a regional affiliation of SAIA (SA Institute for Architects). The Institute has been hosting the Awards since 1912 as the then Transvaal Institute, allowing the programme to have become synonymous with excellence in Architecture in Gauteng. Central to the programme is the need to identify and recognise the intrinsic quality of architectural merit in completed work of all scales and genres; to showcase the best work and to allow for the promotion of the profession. The 2015 Awards Programme captivates the contemporary creativity of Gauteng’s architectural fraternity and celebrates the most meritorious buildings completed in 2013-2015. For the 2015 GIfA Awards for Architecture, 23 new buildings were selected as finalists out of a record number of 44 projects submitted for consideration. The Jury commented that the work to be evaluated were all of an extraordinary high quality and very diverse in terms of their scope and their scale of urban intervention. A very special thank you go to my fellow jurors: Anne Graupner, partner at 26 10 Architects; Nabeel Essa, founding member of Office 24-7 Architects; Anthony Orelowitz, founding partner of Paragon Architects and Alex Opper, senior lecturer at the Dept. of Architecture, UJ. To Karen Mailer who convened the adjudication, our energetic executive manager and the rest of the team who have assisted in putting the gala event and exhibitions together- thank you! Daniel van der Merwe GIfA President

CRITERIA FOR 2015 GIfA AWARDS

Architecture that ‘pushes the boundaries’/ ‘stretches the envelope’/is particularly innovative/ or takes risk Originality Buildings that contribute to the public realm Legible, easy to navigate, and offer rich spatial experiences Buildings that are humane and make our city a better place or build a better society Buildings that use resources efficiently Buildings that sit comfortably within their environments Buildings that succeed at multiple scales – urban, site, scale of the building, detail Buildings that respond to the client’s brief Buildings that I would be proud to have designed

PAGE ARCHITECTURE 5 POD-iDLADLA Almeida T/A Collaborate000 7 Megan+Neil BD Studio 9 BMW Head Office Boogertman + Partners 11 Steyn City Clubhouse Boogertman + Partners 13 House 01 Hyde Park Daffonchio & Associates 15 House 02 Hyde Park Daffonchio & Associates 17 Maboneng Precinct Daffonchio & Associates 19 Lecture Venues, UJ GAPP Architects 21 Animal Centre for SAID GAPP Architects 23 American School Aquatic Centre GLH Architects 25 My Little Red House Kate Otten Architects 27 Malapa Fossil Cave Krynauw Nel Assoc 29 Research Institute The Mount Lemon Pebble, Greenbrick 31 Outreach Foundation Local Studio 33 Math, Science Building, Wits MMA, Savage Dodd 35 Sandibe Lodge Nicholas Plewman 37 House Nicholas Noero Architects, Lemon Pebble 39 Anthropology Museum StudioZA 41 Burger Field Gym TC Design Architects 43 The Last Glass House Thomashoff + Partner 45 A Tribute To Sutton - Johannesburg New Studio Victoria de la Cour

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Jabulani Masterplan Almeida T/A Collaborate008 Building Discourse Guy Trangos Architecture Guide Fisher, Roger C & Clarke. Nicholas J. Street Life in Ivory Park UrbanWorks Architecture and Urbanism

POD-iDLADLA Almeida T/A Collaborate000 Looking for the minimum space needed to live reasonably _ 17m2. The smallest-best quality housing option makes it possible for you to expand the size and functionality of your investment incrementally, making it an option for life. It responds to the mobility of people in a fast evolving economy; to Africa’s ‘youth bulge’, opening an asset growth start-up strategy; it uses the land-lease system, affording a best-performance house-skin from the start; it envisages the temporary-organized occupancy of land unused or, in transition of use. Sustainable by efficiency through modularity, adaptability, passive systems and prefabrication, it ensures 2% wastage whilst using a low-skill workforce. www.pod-idladla.com Citation POD-iDLADLA is South Africa’s latest contribution to a long lineage, across the world, of attempts at architectural prefabrication of small and affordable habitats. What sets this one apart from many others is its nomadic nature. Its carefully designed formal and aesthetic qualities are legible and accessible. The building is its own user manual. Its longitudinal section allows the house to unfold as the user navigates its very economically designed zones and caringly designed multiplicity of possibilities of use. Finally it also refreshingly demonstrates the value of a committed and playful collaboration between a risk-taking architect and industrial designer couple.

Megan+Neil BD Studio This project pursues an obsession with quietness - When the building program and natural slope of the site intersect, unique spatial relationships occur effortlessly and simple forms derived from rigid geometries aim to be unequivocal. A cantilevered mass of concrete accommodates bedrooms with a splendid view of the garden but also shades the faรงade below. It is detailed to shed water and reveal the efforts of its off shutter construction but it is also left raw to weather gracefully, so that with every passing day it will become more and more of this place and add to the sensual experience and quietness. www.bdsa.co.za Citation The design of this family home elegantly navigates the topography and layout of its site, as two stacked private and public boxes. This successfully determines the layout and positioning of activity areas. Situated at the lowest level of the site affords a dramatic double volume sunken lounge space accessible from street level with a tight staircase. The adjacent kitchen flows out onto a sheltered deck linking garden with living, as one socialising area. Clever manipulation of openings allows for a play of light and shadow. The open plan design is continued in a minimalist architecture with strong Modernist references and a limited palette of colours and materials such as off-shutter concrete.

BMW Head Office Boogertman + Partners Controversially questioning the brief to refurbish the iconic, Hans Hallen building, resulted in a dialogue promoting creative resolution. Demolishing of the inner façade enabled the courtyard extension, which spatially connects the building to the landscape and enhances movement & transparency. The impact of this glazed façade is extended by the dynamic, solar tracking, fritted glass louvres. The result - an engineered co-existence between efficient dynamics, reinvention of an icon, implementation of a corporate standard and improving dialogue and efficiency within the working environment. Employing sustainable building principles, achieved a Green Star, 5* As Built rating, thus extending the building’s life span through progressive building principles. www.boogertman.com Citation This project successfully mediates and refreshes an iconic building by an iconic architect for an iconic client. Apart from the questionable decision to remove Hans Hallen’s car motor-like strip window fins, this project takes a beautiful piece of architecture and makes it more. Entering the internal round courtyard is a sublime spatial experience. The layering of glass fins in front of curved glass walls dematerializes the building with an innovative and textural sense of lightness. This architectural skin is also a rich new internal experience, while a new double volume canteen punctuates the monotony of the round circulation. The project is an exercise in quality, robust finishes and refined detailing.

Steyn City Clubhouse Boogertman + Partners Where once there was nothing, the Steyn City Golf Clubhouse exploits the landscape itself to create shelter and space, blurring the boundaries between natural and built, achieving a constant connection with nature. Utilizing local materials and labour, the building integrates with its surroundings and the indigenous landscape, creating architecture that is responsive, sensitive, functional and sustainable, while also making use of the latest available technology. The grassland sweeps over the architecture and the building components fragment in order to enhance its connection with nature by juxtaposing the buildings organic shapes with the Highveld landscape. This achieves a harmonious symbiosis between nature and the architecture which nestles within it. www.boogertman.com Citation The suburban gated context and the model of a wealthy enclave problematize this project before entering. Reading this urban context as outside the mandate of the project, one finds the ingenuity of the architects played at full force. The buildings that house parking and clubhouse facilities dematerialize and emerge in a dynamic and organic play of forms. This project provides an ingenious landscape-architecture approach for partially submerging buildings in the Highveld landscape. The use of site-sourced stones in carefully packed gabions creates beautiful surfaces that merge architecture and landscape. The buildings are experienced from within and from around and the seamless design hides infrastructure and services.

House 01 Hyde Park Daffonchio & Associates This house has been designed to be highly flexible and adapt to the ownersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; changing needs. The house has two skins throughout, enabling the owners to constantly transform the spaces. On the ground floor, all of the living area doors can slide away to open out onto the expansive covered patio and garden, while the shutters on the south of the patio can slide away so that the patio is open on both sides. Along the full length of the northern facade on the first floor, folding stacking shutters provide shading and privacy, but can be stacked open for extra sun and views.Â www.daffonchio.co.za Citation This high-end home has a strong conceptual design that reads very purposefully. The innovative patio with sliding screens, the play on layers and lines of privacy and spatialhold and the ability to transform the space across seasons all confound in an aweinspiring spatial moment of the long spanning hovering first floor. This open covered space is a significant highlight in the architectural narrative of the glamorous Joburg lifestyle aspiration. The upper floor houses a contained and secure bedroom wing while the other end of the span is a self-contained guest suite.

House 02 Hyde Park Daffonchio & Associates The house is set on a secluded, tranquil stand surrounded by established trees. The main house consists of 2 wings: the living wing and the bedroom wing. Both wings have long, low roofs which appear to float over and past them. Along the full length of the northern side of the living area is a 16 meter long floor to ceiling motorized frameless glass sliding door. When opened, the door disappears into cavity walls, and the living area effectively becomes a covered patio. www.daffonchio.co.za Citation The house separates into 2 wings, a living and a private bedroom leg. Modernist planning principles translates into a contemporary yet restrained open plan layout. Walls are separated from horizontal roof planes with clerestory windows affording views and diffused daylight into spaces. Living spaces are successfully integrated with garden spaces visually and planning wise. The interior architecture is successfully quiet and minimalist with expansive spaces, not distracting from surrounding views, thereby allowing itself as a backdrop to artwork and habitation. The garden takes precedence over the interior with an eco-pool as its focus, visible from every internal vantage point. The indoor/outdoor relationships and confinements of the site are successfully manipulated and suited to Johannesburgâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s climate.

Maboneng Precinct Daffonchio & Associates One Project – One Precinct – 20 buildings.The Maboneng Precinct is an open, mixed–use neighbourhood located on the East side of Johannesburg. The Maboneng project started in 2008 with the acquisition of Arts on Main by Enrico Daffonchio and Jonathan Liebmann. Jonathan Liebmann then brought the finance, vision and entrepreneurial skills together to move from one project to the development of the entire precinct. Jonathan Liebmann’s Propertuity and Daffonchio and Associates Architects collaborated from 2008 to 2014, making the Maboneng precinct a unique case of vast urban regeneration produced by one Developer and one Architect. www.daffonchio.co.za Citation This Urban Renewal is one of Johannesburg’s most ambitious and successful urban regeneration projects. This development is unique, as it has successfully rehabilitated the city fabric from an industrial and manufacturing node, into a place where people can work, play and live. This project is particularly significant, as it has been a catalyst for change, acting as the bench mark for urban renewal not only in Johannesburg but also for many cities with emerging economies.

Lecture Venues, UJ GAPP Architects The University of Johannesburg strives to ‘inspire its community to transform and serve humanity through innovation and the collaborative pursuit of knowledge’. The new building is the personification of these principles in built form. Two auditoria flank a cylindrical courtyard and lock into the 1960’s masterplan, providing seating for 1500. An elegant yet powerful sculptural form, the name Ivemvane relates to the gathering of knowledge, the process of intellectual growth and emergence of new ideas. The existing Brutalist monoliths connect to previous institutions; Ivemvane expresses dynamic transformation and progress. www.gapp.net Citation The newest addition to the UJ Kingsway Campus is in conscious contrast to the architecture of the old RAU campus. Making a sculptural landmark different from its context is a powerful political statement of a break with the past. As a threshold building it creates an important new transitional and multi-functional eastern entrance which is inviting and maximise opportunities offered through user friendly edges - and circulation spaces, creating pause and social spaces which are well utilised by students. The concrete and zinc cladding make material references to the existing architecture. Cantilevering the auditoria maximises sculptural form making and outdoor overhangs. Re-cycling the old eucalyptus trees into outdoor furniture and sculptures is thoughtful. The building bravely manifests the new face and future of education at UJ.

Animal Centre for SAID GAPP Architects The Society for Animals in Distress (SAID) is a non-profit organisation providing professional veterinary care to domestic animals belonging to low income or no income earners living in marginalised communities. SAID provides approximately 100,000 treatments per year for both small and equine animals. The language of the new buildings is based on a modern interpretation of farm-like buildings, clustered around central paddocks. The main construction components include high pitched steel sheeted roofs, monolithic face-brick blocks, simple consolidating roof lines and high level windows to allow natural light and ventilation within the facility. www.gapp.net Citation This facility integrates a variety of complex requirements in order to achieve a working environment conductive to humans and a treatment and healing environment for small pets and large farm animals. The resultant architecture is straightforward and functional, making use of hard wearing materials as a direct response to medical needs and maximising the direct impact of donor funds. The architects skilfully respond to the specialised needs required for a first class animal facility which will only reach capacity in 50 years. Relief is found in the placement of buildings as simple linear, lowslung structures in an open landscape which harks back to the original farmsteads in the area, which have now been largely covered in high density cluster homes.

American School Aquatic Centre GLH Architects The American International School Aquatic Centre was a collaborative project between Boston based Flansburgh Architects, GLH architects and Terra Ether Architects. It is at the heart of the schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sports precinct and encloses two state of the art indoor swimming pools. The building is designed as a perforated wrapped pavilion that protects against the weather while using natural ventilation and solar heating to create a temperate swimming and spectating experience. The design intention was to create an elegant structure that would suggest the nature of water and swimming and would be at once functional, expressive and playful. www.glh.co.za Citation Stringent international norms and standards had to be met and maintained whilst also responding to a specific site as part of a bigger campus plan. The generous roof shelters swimming activities from Joâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;burg thunderstorms, tempering the extremely bright Highveld sunlight but also maintaining a sense of being outdoors by allowing breezes and natural light to pass through the faĂ§ade. Several sustainability systems such as sun screening and solar heating (which ensure consistent pool temperature throughout the year) as well as rain water collection for the surrounding plants, are aesthetically integrated with the straight forward engineered white roof structure. Technical details are rigorously resolved and joyfully contrasted with a graphically playful detailing applied in tile work, making the space a delight.

My Little Red House Kate Otten Architects Through a process of removal, restoration, adaptation and addition, this 1931 small Arts & Crafts style house, is coaxed into a contemporary version of its former self. A faceted, pitched ‘red box’ was added, filling in the ‘missing’ part on south-east corner of the original plan. The ‘box’ is clad in red corrugated iron sheeting, taking its cues from the existing roof forms and materials, but simultaneously retaining its clarity as a new form. A timber portal frame encapsulates the outbuildings creating a barn-like structure. This framed structure is clad with pine plywood and translucent sheeting on the outside and plaster board on the inside. The new materials are clearly different to the existing but the form and rhythm references the historic fabric. www.kateottenarchitects.com Citation The simple move of placing a double story light weight envelope over an ordinary outbuilding transforms the existing site in a powerful and unexpected way. A new entrance and courtyard is created, setting up a dialogue between the original and its newly transformed backyard. Skylights, openings and framed views are strategically and playfully placed to flood walls with light where needed, highlighting textures that talk of the projects history and framing aspects of the lush garden and suburban environment. New, affordable, off-the-shelf materials like plywood, steel and corrugated sheeting are used in contrast to the red brick of the old existing house, where construction, uncovering and the use of bold colour create a charming dialogue. On a shoe-string budget, the architect demonstrates an original, resourceful and refreshing approach to a sustainable live-work setup in its commercialised neighbouring environment.

Malapa Fossil Cave Krynauw Nel Assoc On the site “Malapa”, an extraordinary hominin fossil Australopithecus sediba was found within a pristine private game reserve and UNESCO World Heritage Site: Cradle of Humankind, rich in early human fossils and endemic fauna and flora. The structure is insect-like, light weight, fully disposable, ±85% percent recyclable and semipermanent for an envisaged minimum of ±50 years on site. Nestled amongst a ring of trees, the structure protects and celebrates in its design the fragile found fossils – as a landmark, a research instrument and an education tool – with a total surface impact of less than 2m² on the site. www.krynauwnel.com Citation The brief called for protection of the excavation site from the elements and to allow visitors an unobstructed view with minimal impact to the site. This was executed not only successfully but with an unexpected and fresh design intervention. The ‘invisible’ building, like an insect, camouflages itself through site colours and with an asymmetrical design transparent floating steel structure. Remarkably no trees were removed or construction disturbances affected on the site. The cleverly designed premanufactured eight legged steel structure provided the solution. The main structural element- an oval curved space frame allows for a protective roof, visitors viewing platform and a manual crane hoist. It blends remarkably with the environment yet offers a unique visitors experience once inside. It is at once contemporary and primordial, a grand spatial experience inside yet insignificant when approached. Nothing was taken away, yet more was added.

Research Institute The Mount Lemon Pebble, Greenbrick The Mount at 09 Jubilee road, Parktown: A project for Wits University to house the Sidney Bremner Institute for Molecular Biology. The building is historically significant and is one of the first Randlord houses along the Johannesburg Ridge. The intervention sought to re-script the residence into a public institute by unearthing and restoring subverted layers of history. This was done by unearthing the social histories of the subverted class and turning the uncovered spaces of the staff quarters and privileged private views on the north into public spaces. The histories were made legible through the insertion of a new architectural language alongside the old. A contemporary glass box was inserted in front of the restored original columns on the northern faรงade to create a new reading of a contentious past. www.lemonpebbledesign.co.za Citation This project is a discourse in questioning our staid approach to heritage. It critically asks what heritage means and whose heritage is being preserved. In a profound moment of subversion it makes hidden subservient space public and successfully converts the building to fit a new institutional programme. The new and covered spaces are thoughtfully layered and programmed to allow for places of conversation and interaction.

Outreach Foundation Local Studio Architecture and Urban Design The outreach Foundation Community Centre was completed in early 2015, and is one of the first new social infrastructure projects to be built in Hillbrow since the 1970’s. The project is situated within the broader Hillbrow Lutheran Church/Friedenskirche precinct - a site given to the Lutheran church by Paul Kruger at the turn of the century. The actual building site is in the staggered rooftop of an unfinished community hall built as part of the German Consulate in the 1970’s. The building houses 3 primary functions: a computer centre on ground floor, a dance studio at 1st floor and offices and meeting areas at 2nd floor. These functions are collected within an angular volume draped over the two levels of the site. The building also presents its primary function, which is the dance studio to Twist Str. through a 12m window. www.localstudio.co.za Citation Local Studio’s Outreach Foundation Community Centre – in the no-nonsense lineage of ground-breaking buildings like OMA’s midcareer ‘Kunsthal’ and ‘Educatorium’, in the Netherlands – demonstrates a confidence and maturity rare for such a young practice. It’s not surprising that an image of the project, knitted comfortably into its urban Hillbrow context, serves as the opener to the firm’s website. The building, with its strong social and communal focus, confidently grafts itself onto the rooftop of an earlier block in the precinct. It excellently demonstrates the necessity for a considered and elastic relationship between Urban Design and Architecture, and how these disciplines should always aspire to be mutually informative and interdependent.

Math, Science Building, Wits MMA, Savage Dodd The new Mathematical Sciences building on the University of Wits west campus is a 14 000m2 building built to accommodate five mathematical schools into a new Mathematical Sciences department. Situated on the historical Skeen stadium site which formed part of the old Johannesburg showgrounds and which has now been developed as the social heart of West campus. The design challenge was to accommodate the required bulk including academics offices, lecture rooms and computer labs into the desired curvilinear footprint commemorating the old stadium race track. Formally this was achieved through developing the building as a â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mobius stripâ&#x20AC;?; a continuous series of formal inflexions that mathematically recreate the curve in a non-curvilinear way. www.mmastudio.co.za & www.savagedodd.co.za Citation The buildings urban response is successfully linked to the overall structure of Witsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; development and campus open space framework. Visually connecting and balancing the scale and verticality of its sister building, the Wits Science Stadium, both complete the framing of the historic sportsgrounds which remain central as a shared open space where student life, social and academic interaction can happen. Specific departmental requirements for high- end maths, science and computer labs are responded to in a matter of fact way whilst, double volumes, indirect, filtered light, bright colours, considered materials and well resolved architectural detailing are employed to strategically assist with wayfinding and counter-balance the overall institutional nature.

Sandibe Lodge Nicholas Plewman Architects Sandibe is a luxury game lodge in the Okavango Delta, Northern Botswana. Recently the Okavango was declared a World Heritage Site and with that came numerous environmental regulations to protect it. The brief was forbidding; removing all traces of previous building and insert new sustainable interventions on a sensitive site without permanent footprints. The buildings had to adhere to the highest LEED / Greenstar guidelines possible. The design aesthetic and concept was inspired in form and function by the site and local traditions. Sculptural shelter making; the unique ‘genius loci’ of the site; climate; the armadillo as inspiration and using mostly timber and bio-degradable materials create a once-off bespoke intervention. www.plewmanarchitects.co.za Citation The project rises magnificently to the challenges of site, brief and its restrictive guidelines. The buildings are zoomorphic, yet functional, beautifully crafted yet with high-tech sustainable technologies and contain seamlessly integrated indoor and outdoor connections; planning; circulation and passive energy design strategies are skilfully executed. The project exceeds its imperatives and is a refreshing contribution to the typology of ‘eco-lodge’ architecture, setting a new benchmark.

House Nicholas Noero Architects, Lemon Pebble The original mine worker’s house has been remade as a place to live in and a museum to house the owner’s collection of Coca-Cola memorabilia. The museum is located on the top floor facing the iconic Hillbrow Tower. Conventional relationships are confronted in the house - one enters through the kitchen – the bedroom opens off the kitchen/dining space – a mezzanine office area overlooks these areas. On the first floor the museum space opens to the east through six meter high glass sliding folding doors. The character of the house pays homage to the under estimated Art Deco History of Johannesburg. www.noeroarchitects.com & www.lemonpebbledesign.co.za Citation What is an architect to do when confronted with a brief to merge a Melville house with a nostalgic sense of Hollywood Art Deco? This project manages to traverse the everyday Melville context with this outing of quirky deco glamour and an aspiration for otherness. The careful design of proportion and scale of the bulk form and the raw but visually potent ornamentation and symmetry is mesmerising. The double volume loft space holds itself in comfortable fantasy between Hollywood camp with a breathtaking framing connectivity to the city of Joburg.

Anthropology Museum StudioZA This project entails the expansion & upgrade of the University Anthropology Post Graduate Student Seminar and Museum Space. The site is situated in one of the courtyards of The Great Hall at the University Of Witwatersrandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s main Campus, within walking distance from the Johannesburg City Centre. The existing Architectural space speaks of a facility focused on control and separation. It has been our intention to offer a new kind of space that introduces an element of openness and connectivity that more closely represents the institution and its goals. www.studioza.co.za Citation The significance of the Anthropology Museum, lies in the sensitivity displayed by the architects in integrating the museum into one of the under-utilised service courtyards of Senate House at Wits University. The language of the architecture is uncompromising within its historical setting and adds to the overall aesthetic of the complex. The skin of the structure comprises a glass curtain wall system, encapsulating a tactile and organic interior. The programme includes a gallery space, which is attached to a large meeting room (which lies within the existing building fabric). This project by Studio ZA is sensitive to its setting without compromising its architectural language.

Burger Field Gym TC Design Architects The new contemporary gym for St John’s College in Houghton, Johannesburg, is a modest building that stands in strong contrast to its older counterparts on this renowned school campus originally designed by Sir Herbert Baker. It is physically shaped by its need to fulfil multiple purposes and briefs. The building was initiated as a project that would afford the school a new gym facility and function space for their principal Burger Rugby Field as well as a temporary facility for the Pre-Preparatory School during the construction of the new Pre-Preparatory Building in 2014/2015. It was designed to allow for robust use in all phases – conveyed through its solid materiality and large open spaces. Keeping in mind the building’s final utilisation as a gym facility, one of the key design drivers of the project was the building’s use of “green” design fundamentals implemented in the planted roof structure, the folding concrete roof planes that allow for ingress of natural light and the use of the natural movement of air through the space.’ www.tcdesign.co.za Citation The Burger Field Gym’s significance lies in the novel approach that the architects have taken in dealing with the integration of a new gym for St John’s School. The programme for the gym was substantial leaving the architects with the challenge of how to integrate a modern facility into this historically sensitive site. This project by TC Design Architects, displays a heightened level of sensitivity and innovation to a complex architectural challenge, landscape, setting and heritage.

The Last Glass House Thomashoff + Partner The last Glass Houseâ&#x20AC;? is situated on the rocky outcrop of the Westcliff Ridge, with a view to the west, through existing electricity pylons, over a valley, with Auckland Park and Melville in the background. The brief was simple: A dwelling for an artist. The design is inspired by the rich history of Johannesburg - the goldmines and its industry, the essential functionality of the industrial buildings in central Johannesburg. The project was conceptualised as a series of interrelated spaces, defined by elements such as retaining walls, the horizontal planes of the terraces, and glass walls. Hierarchies of privacy are obtained through vertical separation, by the use of a split-level configuration. To the North and South of the main structure, the Guest Room facilities and Staff Quarters are accommodated in re-purposed industrial shipping containers. www.thomashoffstudio.co.za Citation Flying in the face of energy efficiency building codes, this cheeky building is a creative tour de force where customized and quirky detailing abound. There is a reimagining of the idea of house, blurring and redefining notions of studio, work, living and guests. This linear glass box mediates the landscape in a way where the architectural form and landscape merge and re-settle. The origami folded roof experienced both internally and externally is an act of sophistication and deftness by courageous, affluent and fluent architecture.

A Tribute To Sutton - Johannesburg New Studio Victoria de la Cour Designed as a home office, this new studio is a stage from which to contemplate the old- an original 1968 Michael Sutton house on the south side of the property. The building is made up of monolithic forms activated by the play of light on textured plaster, pared down detailing and carefully considered openings with framed views and layered screens. Having been involved in the restoration of the main house, the opportunity to work on a building that echoed the work of Sutton was the culmination of a series of professional and personal interests. This was my opportunity to emulate his style delivering a simple, beautiful space with effortless detailing that perfectly caters to the clientâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s needs. https://www.facebook.com/Victoria-de-la-Cour-Architect-251710818311981/ Citation One of a number of small projects submitted this year, represents a successful and respectful architectural nod to the monolithic Michael Sutton-designed residence in the Johannesburg suburb of Dunkeld. Apart from conscious stylistic echoes of its bigger brother, this refuge-like studio also convincingly assumes an Urban Designlike attitude at the scale of a suburban site. This is achieved via its axial dialogue with the main house and its function as an important knuckle and clever facilitator of a threshold, of both arrival and departure.

RESEARCH DOCUMENTS Jabulani Master Plan Almeida T/A Collaborate 008 This complex master planning study for the Jabulani Precinct shows an in-depth understanding of the area and its surroundings. The significance of the master plan lies in its long term vision, which extends to the year 2025. The proposal sets out to ensure that the development adapts with the needs of the surrounding community and in each phase of its development, where possible, it is economically and programmatically self-sustaining and enhancing.

Building Discourse Guy Trangos Guy Trangosâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Building Discourse research submission consists of a beautifully designed booklet of a set of six carefully chosen and arranged articles. It takes on the ambitious but important task of fostering a critical local public debate on the pivotal role of the built environment as a lens through which not only to read, but also to positively influence the complex everyday conditions which make up contemporary South African cities. There are not many skilled writers on architecture and builtenvironment discourse in South Africa. TrangoĹĄ is a rare exception. His pursuit of a more inclusive society, by making critical articles on the subject of architecture available to broader audiences, should be encouraged and developed further in thefuture.

Architecture Guide Fisher, Roger C & Clarke. Nicholas J. Doing a book and getting the facts right is hard work. Doing an architectural guide book requires added rigour and the authors have acquitted themselves well on this task. Covering the 3 largest cities the personal introductions of their cities by leading architects and academics add a wonderful subjectivity through a personal lens. This encourages to explore and discover the wide spectrum of built and cultural heritage which offer insights into various social, political, economic and stylistic influences that have brought our cities into being. Placing carefully selected buildings in their broader urban and project specific context, this book becomes a highly recommendable read and reference - which is more than a pocket guide for anybody genuinely interested in the transformation and developmental challenges of our South African urban centres. DISTRIBUTION OF MICO-ENTERPRISES BY ENTERPRISE CATEGORY, IVORY PARK, JUNE 2012

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A pre-manufactured tarpaulin structure, the principal function of the gazebo is to provide shade from the sun and shelter from the rain. These structures are portable and can be assembled along the sidewalk, sheltering other trading structures (such as a table, benches or chairs). Branded gazebos are used to advertise and promote specific products, often located along high streets and at the taxi rank. Some examples include banking services, funeral services and phone shops. 11. 12. 13. 14.

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SIZE CATEGORY

HOMEWARE

6. 7. 8.

10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15.

STREET LIFE IN IVORY PARK

HAIRDRESSING FINANCIAL

3. 4.

TRADE TYPE

AVERAGE AREA OF STRUCTURE

SPECIALITY

TRANSPORT

7 mÂ˛

ENTERTAINMENT FASTFOOD

GROCERIES

16.

SWEET/SNACK/FRUIT/CIGARETTES

17.

MICRO-MANUFACTURING

medium footprint AVERAGE REVENUE

R 300/mÂ˛ per month ECONOMIC INDICATORS Installation Running Cost

3 1

costs for business installation & operation from 1-5 (low to high)

PERFORMANCE INDICATORS Permanence

Assembly Infrastructure

3 1

Legal Barriers Security Risk

2 1

Locational Adv

Range

performance indicators of mode of trade from 1-5 (low to high)

1. 2. 3. 4.

TARPAULIN AND POST

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2. 3. 4. 5.

HEALTH 6.

FASHION

HEALTH

BUILDING 8. SERVICES BUILDING 8. SERVICES BUILDING SERVICES MOTOR9.TRADEMOTOR 9. TRADE MOTOR TRADE

10. 11. 12.

Informal businesses should not be seen as a problem, but as a solution to unemployment, low skills, and the inclusion of the marginalised within the South African economy.

FINANCIAL 2. FINANCIAL

FASHION 4.

HEALTH6.

ACCOMODATION 7. ACCOMODATION 7. ACCOMODATION

13. 14. 15.

HAIRDRESSING 1. HAIRDRESSING 1. HAIRDRESSING FINANCIAL 2.

ELECTRONICS/CELLULAR 3. ELECTRONICS/CELLULAR 3. ELECTRONICS/CELLULAR FASHION 4.

HOMEWARE 5. HOMEWARE 5. HOMEWARE

6. 7. 8. 9.

5. 6.

2. FINANCIAL 2. FINANCIAL

FINANCIAL

3. ELECTRONICS/CELLULAR 3. ELECTRONICS/CELLULAR ELECTRONICS/CELLULAR 4. FASHION 4. FASHION

FASHION

5. HOMEWARE 5. HOMEWARE

HOMEWARE

6. HEALTH 6. HEALTH

HEALTH

7. ACCOMODATION 7. ACCOMODATION ACCOMODATION

8. BUILDING BUILDING SERVICES BUILDING SERVICES8.SERVICES

9. TRADE MOTOR TRADE 9. MOTOR TRADE MOTOR

10.

10. TRADE ILLICIT TRADE 10. ILLICIT

ILLICIT TRADE

11. SPECIALITY 11. SPECIALITY

SPECIALITY

12.

12. TRANSPORT 12. TRANSPORT

TRANSPORT

13.

13. ENTERTAINMENT 13. ENTERTAINMENT ENTERTAINMENT

11.

Assembled daily, this is a semi-permanent structure that is comprised of a taurpaulin sheet, wooden posts and a single display shelf. These structures are located on the sidewalk or the extended verge, but as close to pedestrian movement as possible. Goods are strategically laid-out on the display shelf and suspended from the frame (and existing adjacent walls and fences) to showcase the diversity of items on sale. Some examples include micro-enterprises selling electrical goods, fruit and vegetable stalls and stands selling chips, sweets and cigarettes.

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These micro-enterprises provide an income for the business operator, employment opportunities for friends and relatives and a service to residents, providing them with access to goods and services that are convenient, accessible and often cheap.

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SPECIALITY 11.

SPECIALITY 11. SPECIALITY

TRANSPORT 12. TRANSPORT 12. TRANSPORT

ENTERTAINMENT 13. ENTERTAINMENT 13. ENTERTAINMENT FASTFOOD 14.

FASTFOOD 14. FASTFOOD

GROCERIES 15.

GROCERIES 15. GROCERIES

16.

SWEET/SNACK/FRUIT/CIGARETTES 16. SWEET/SNACK/FRUIT/CIGARETTES 16. SWEET/SNACK/FRUIT/CIGARETTES

17.

MICRO-MANUFACTURING 17. MICRO-MANUFACTURING 17. MICRO-MANUFACTURING

14. 15.

14. FASTFOOD 14. FASTFOOD

FASTFOOD

15. GROCERIES 15. GROCERIES

GROCERIES

16.

16. SWEET/SNACK/FRUIT/CIGARETTES 16. SWEET/SNACK/FRUIT/CIGARETTES SWEET/SNACK/FRUIT/CIGARETTES

17.

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ELECTRONICS/CELLULAR FASHION

5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15.

HAIRDRESSING FINANCIAL

3. 4.

SIZE CATEGORY HOMEWARE HEALTH

BUILDING SERVICES

9. 10.

12.

BUILDING SERVICES

13.

MOTOR TRADE

14.

ILLICIT TRADE

15.

SPECIALITY TRANSPORT ENTERTAINMENT

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16.

SWEET/SNACK/FRUIT/CIGARETTES

17.

MICRO-MANUFACTURING

FASTFOOD GROCERIES

16.

SWEET/SNACK/FRUIT/CIGARETTES

17.

MICRO-MANUFACTURING

AVERAGE AREA OF STRUCTURE

7 mÂ˛ medium footprint AVERAGE REVENUE

R 250/mÂ˛ per month

ECONOMIC INDICATORS Installation

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Running Cost

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15. MEAT 16. GROCERIES

PERFORMANCE INDICATORS

17. EXPRESS

Permanence

Assembly Infrastructure

4 1

Legal Barriers

Informal micro-entrepreneurship is a response to market conditions. Yet businesses must also conform to social rules, community etiquette and reciprocal obligations. In this way an organic local business order has arisen in which business contributes towards social cohesion, whilst the businesses seek to provide a service that benefits the community.

HEALTH ACCOMODATION

11.

ACCOMODATION

HAIRDRESSING FINANCIAL ELECTRONICS/CELLULAR FASHION HOMEWARE

6. 7. 8.

12. TRANSPORT 13. ENTERTAINMENT

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The township informal economy is part of South Africaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s urban future. Our population is steadily increasing, yet the formal labour market cannot absorb all work-seekers. With few formal employment opportunities, the poor seek livelihoods in the township in informal economic activities, with street trade, micro-manufacturing and small household businesses often providing an entry point.

1. 2.

1. HAIRDRESSING 1. HAIRDRESSING HAIRDRESSING

SECTION A-A Enterprise Category and Count of Enterprise

HIGH STREET & TAXI RANK

Internal trading area governed by the taxi rank operator. Trading on both sides of the fence.

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Informal trading occupying the large space between shop and road.

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The immediate economy is dominated by the taxi industry. The side-walks are unoccupied by street traders, allowing customers to move swiftly to the taxi rank for transport in the mornings. The street itself is congested XJUI UBYJT KPTUMJOH UP FOUFS UIF SBOL BOE JOGPSNBM UBYJT PQFSBUJOH MPDBM routes. Pedestrians enter the street when crossing the road, a task that requires dodging the traffic. Morning commuters have little time to shop and only purchase items that they can consume or carry to work. The early morning street traders sell vetkoek, sweets, cigarettes, newspapers and fruit. A few individuals stand in the middle of the traffic, selling cigarettes or working for the taxi association and collecting dues from passing informal taxis. Taxi horns sound repetitively, as taxis muscle their way into the rank, intentionally hurrying commuters. There are three orders of spatial authority working at this site, the taxi rank, the pubic street and the land which allow spaces to be appropriately differently.

1. 2. 3. 4.

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performance indicators of mode of trade from 1-5 (low to high)

TRADE TYPE

2. 3. 4. 5.

SHOP Private

Public

HAIRDRESSING 1. HAIRDRESSING 1. HAIRDRESSING FINANCIAL 2.

FINANCIAL 2. FINANCIAL

ELECTRONICS/CELLULAR 3. ELECTRONICS/CELLULAR 3. ELECTRONICS/CELLULAR FASHION 4.

FASHION 4.

FASHION

HOMEWARE 5.

HOMEWARE 5. HOMEWARE

HEALTH6.

HEALTH 6.

ACCOMODATION 7. ACCOMODATION 7. ACCOMODATION

HEALTH

BUILDING 8. SERVICES BUILDING 8. SERVICES BUILDING SERVICES

MOTOR9. TRADEMOTOR 9. TRADE MOTOR TRADE

5. 6. 7.

1. HAIRDRESSING HAIRDRESSING 2. FINANCIAL FINANCIAL

11. 12. 13. 14.

ILLICIT TRADE 10. ILLICIT 10.TRADE ILLICIT TRADE

SPECIALITY 11.

TRANSPORT 12.

SPECIALITY 11. SPECIALITY

TRANSPORT 12. TRANSPORT

ENTERTAINMENT 13. ENTERTAINMENT 13. ENTERTAINMENT FASTFOOD 14.

FASTFOOD 14. FASTFOOD

GROCERIES 15.

GROCERIES 15. GROCERIES

16.

SWEET/SNACK/FRUIT/CIGARETTES 16. SWEET/SNACK/FRUIT/CIGARETTES 16. SWEET/SNACK/FRUIT/CIGARETTES

17.

MICRO-MANUFACTURING 17. MICRO-MANUFACTURING 17. MICRO-MANUFACTURING

10. TRADE ILLICIT TRADE ILLICIT

15.

M 03

HEALTH

8. BUILDING SERVICES BUILDING SERVICES 9. TRADE MOTOR TRADE MOTOR

14.

SIZE CATEGORY

3. ELECTRONICS/CELLULAR ELECTRONICS/CELLULAR 4. FASHION FASHION 5. HOMEWARE HOMEWARE 6. HEALTH

7. ACCOMODATION ACCOMODATION

8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13.

11. SPECIALITY SPECIALITY 12. TRANSPORT TRANSPORT 13. ENTERTAINMENT ENTERTAINMENT

The sidewalk ground provides space and exposure to display goods in the open. Sites are typically positioned close to the pathways of high frequency pedestrian movement. Placed upon a sheet of plastic, these businesses often display the goods in a layered and colour coordinated configuration to attract customer attention and showcase the range of products. These micro-enterprises are reliant on off-site storage of their goods. Some business examples include traders selling plastic homeware, sellers of second-hand clothes and manufactured furniture. 10.

15.

DIAGRAMATIC STREET SECTION

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Locational Adv Range

Shop signage: advertising the shop across the street to commuters waiting at the taxi rank.

Security Risk

14. FASTFOOD FASTFOOD

15. GROCERIES GROCERIES

16.

16. SWEET/SNACK/FRUIT/CIGARETTES SWEET/SNACK/FRUIT/CIGARETTES

17.

17. MICRO-MANUFACTURING MICRO-MANUFACTURING

AVERAGE AREA OF STRUCTURE

10 mÂ˛ medium footrpint AVERAGE REVENUE

R 120/mÂ˛ per month

ECONOMIC INDICATORS Installation Running Cost

1 1

costs for business installation & operation from 1-5 (low to high)

PERFORMANCE INDICATORS Permanence Assembly

1 1

Infrastructure

Legal Barriers

Security Risk

Locational Adv Range

4 2

performance indicators of mode of trade from 1-5 (low to high)

Street Life in Ivory Park UrbanWorks Architecture & Urbanism This substantial research document explores the township street in South Africa with a fresh and new perspective. It provides insights into the existing contributions of the Informal as a guide to future new practices. This study and exhibition persuasively promotes the diversity and potential made possible by â&#x20AC;&#x153;the streetâ&#x20AC;?. It opens the window to new approaches and to new alternative socio-economic models to current â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;first-worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; bureaucratic legislation and enforcement.