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PERSONAL Kate Keightley-Smith 44A Terrace Rd London UK mobile: (+ 44) 75 616 38236 References:
Link to Full Portfolio ht t p: // i s s u u .c o m / k ate ke ig ht l ey - s m i t h /d o c s / k ate _ ke ig ht l ey - s m i t h _ p o r t fo li o Education 2011 - Masters in Architecture (professional) - University of the Witwatersrand (RIBA Part 2). 2010 - Bachelor of Architectural Studies BAS) Honours - University of the Witwatersrand. 2007 - Bachelor of Architectural Studies(BAS) - University of the Witwatersrand (RIBA Part 1). 2004 - Full Matric Exemption (IEB) A Aggregate (distinction). St Mary’s School for girls, Waverley. Work Experience 2014 - present - Hawkin\Brown - Architectural Assistant (Part 2) 2013 - Paragon Architects - Architectural Assistant (Part 2) 2012 - Paragon Architects - Architectural Assistant (Part 2) 2010 - Back Interior Design - Architectural Assistant (Part 1) 2009 - Daffonchio and Associate Architect - Architectural Assistant (Part 1) 2008 - Micheal Scholes and Associate Architect - Architectural Assistant (Part 1)
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Achievements 2005-2007 - Member of the Golden Key Association - University of the Witwatersrand. 2006-2007 - Dean’s List (top 10% students of faculty of the built environment) - University of the Witwatersrand. Continuous Education 2011 April - AZA C&CI MASTER CLASS, International Union of Architects. 2011 May - DIGITAL CONSTRUCTIONS Masterclass : parametric modelling and algorithmic design, Cement and Concrete Institute. 2012 - 2013 - Revit Training (Modena South Africa) 2012 - 2013 - Registered Candidate of SACAP (South African Council for the Architectural Profession).
Educational
Employer - Oliver Milton olivermilton@hawkinsbrown.com (+44) 020 7336 8030 http://www.hawkinsbrown.com/ - Anthony Orelowitz - Paragon Architects anthonyo@paragon.co.za (+27) 11 482 3781 http://www.paragon.co.za/work/
- Enrico Daffonchio - Daffonchio and Associates Architects sadacc@iafrica.co.za (+27) 82 414 2331 http://www.daffonchio.co.za/ - Mark Pencharz - TC Design Architects markp@tcdesign.co.za (+27) 11 784 3860 http://www.tcdesign.co.za/main.htm - Micheal Scholes - Micheal Scholes and Associate Architects michael.scholes@msarch.co.za (+27) 11 440 0772
- Hannah le Roux - Thesis supervisor University of the Witwatersrand hannah.leroux@wits.ac.za - Elena Rocchi - Architect, Artist Universitat Intercional de Catalunya labrea_a@yahoo.it - Jonathan Nobel - Professor at University of the Witwatersrand Jonathan.Noble@wits.ac.za
educational, new build
FIRM WORK
Hawkins\Brown Living Systems Building Exeter size: 7500m² Work stage : RIBA Stage 4 Cost : £38.5m Time on project: February 2014 - present
Role within project:
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Detailed technical documentation Specification writing Fortnightly design team meetings Fortnightly design team meetings User group meetings Project administration Revit information modelling (BIM) Mechanical and electrical co-ordination. Structural co-ordination.
Project Challenges:
Site challenges - steep slope, inaccesible site. value engineering process new to UK standards new to AEC BIM standards very technical programme and requirements reliance on consultants length of time taken to get to site +-3 hours each way
The Living Systems Building at the University of Exeter is 7500 square meters of new build facilities for multiple science disciplines. This building provides technical, specialist and CL2 laboratory facilities for a range of departments whereby post graduate students are encouraged to mix amongst departments so that their research is beneficial to others encouraging collaborative rather than competitive research environments. The proposal draws on the successful Hawkins\Brown’s Biochemistry building at the University of Oxford. This facility promotes a collaborative approach to research, mixing up traditionally segregated ‘wet’ and ‘dry’ researchers. Unlike Oxford, the incredible steeply sloped site at the heart of the Streatham campus requires a sensitive response against the historic parkland setting of the University. Hawkins \ Brown Architects have been involved in the project since 2012 when they were invited by Mace Group (project managers) in tendering for the works under a regional public
Living Systems allowed me the opportunity to work second to the Project Architect as a Part II Architectural Assistant and BIM coordinator. I have so far been attending fortnightly Design Team Meetings, lead facade workshops, compiled workstage reports, developed design speciďŹ cations, lead on controlling and issuing BIM models while maintaining relationships within the project structure. This is an unparalleled experience and has allowed me a great amount of responsibility, as I look towards becoming a project architect. The project is being procured in BIM Revit and was one of the ďŹ rst Revit projects for Hawkins\Brown and some members of the team. I have 4 years of experience in delivering projects in
Revit in South Africa and while very proďŹ cient in the software, have never had to produce information under the recent and strict AEC standards. The task of issuing a 3D BIM model to the main contractor fortnightly was in the beginning a hugely daunting task, over which I as the Part II BIM coordinator felt very little control. Post-contract Hawkins\Brown were novated to the contractor whilst also maintaining a client side role. The project is currently on site and due for completion in March 2016. Key to the success of the facility will be its ability to encourage interaction between disciplines both within the new building but also in the existing buildings to which it sits adjacent.
Left lower: Image of coordinated Revit BIM model between Hawkins\Brown and the Structural and M&E Consultant models.
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educational, new build
FIRM WORK
Hawkins\Brown
Project Challenges:
Urban Sciences Building
Newcastle size: 13 700 m² Work stage : RIBA Stage 3 Cost : £58.1m Time on project: November & December 2014
Large building with large volumes Being on the project for a short time Revit BIM as a deliverable - having to maintain AEC standards Complex BIM massing complex team structure
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Assisting with Stage 2 Report documentation Assisting with Faced Report documentation Revit information modelling (BIM) and temporary BIM assitance within project Structural co-ordination.
I was brought onto this project temporarily during November to assist in the submission of a Stage 2 report. Similar to the Living Systems building, the SAge Newcastle Urban Sciences building is designed around a programme of laboratory and research facilities with shared communal spaces. Science Central will become the physical hub for the Newcastle Science City initiative creating private sector employment and new businesses in the knowledge economy. Working on this project was beneficial in that I got to grips with the new RIBA workstages, something which having come from South Africa, was quite foreign.
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) sets out protocol for developing a building from appraising the client’s requirements through to post construction. The process is set out as key work stages which describe the activities of the Architect at each of these stages. The other consultants’ work stages run approximately parallel to the RIBA work stages. This study which formed part of the Stage 2 report indicates the projects output of RIBA Stage 2 (Concept Design). During this phase of work the Design Team are to have consulted heavily to help prepare the final brief, site feasibility studies and concepts to inform the design as Hawkins\Brown move to Stage 3.
t Additional growth for the School of Computing Science including both staff and student numbers
The below right diagram indicates the complexity of the brief. The progress was an interesting learning curve in that architecture can often become formulaic. The graph shows the progress of the brief up to the end of Stage 2. As can be seen, through the consultation process the brief expanded to beyond the agreed gross floor area allowed within the outline planning envelope This report presents three scenarios for the building in detail, which need to be decided upon prior to moving to Stage 3.
relation to the brief and adjacencies.
384 SQM MEETING / COLLABORATION SPACES 1342 SQM WORKSPACE 330 SQM TEACHING / LEARNING SPACES
t The requirement for the specialist research spaces for the Digital Interaction Group (within the School of Computing Science) to be included as well as their workspace 270 SQM ROOF GARDEN 400 SQM COMMERCIAL SPACES
The following diagram shows the progress of the brief from the ITT to the end of Stage 2. As can be seen, through the consultation process the brief expanded to beyond the agreed gross floor area allowed within the outline planning envelope.
627 SQM LAB SPACES
400 SQM COMMERCIAL SPACES 380 SQM LAB SPACES
1622SQM MEETING / COLLABORATION SPACES
ITT Brief
1469 SQM MEETING / COLLABORATION SPACES
790 SQM SHELL SPACE OPPORTUNITY 400 SQM COMMERCIAL SPACES 440 SQM LAB SPACES 260 SQM MEETING SPACES
3359 SQM TEACHING / LEARNING SPACES
4012 SQM OFFICE SPACE
DIGITAL INTERACTION 3153SQM
796 SQM MEETING / COLLABORATION SPACES
2690 SQM WORKSPACE
3983 SQM OFFICE SPACE
1232 SQM COMMERCIAL SPACES
1622SQM MEETING / COLLABORATION SPACES
870 SQM SOCIAL LEARNING/ STUDY ZONES
1026 SQM MEETING / COLLABORATION SPACES
4174 SQM TEACHING / LEARNING SPACES
3983 SQM OFFICE SPACE
3663 SQM TEACHING / LEARNING SPACES
3146 SQM OFFICE SPACE
2930 SQM TEACHING / LEARNING SPACES inc DT
3030 SQM TEACHING / LEARNING SPACES
1325 SQM ANCILLIARY SPACES (including DIG and not including cloud data storage)
1128 SQM ANCILLIARY SPACES
95 SQM STORES
1510 SQM ANCILLIARY SPACES
3663 SQM TEACHING / LEARNING SPACES 2980 SQM CIRCULATION @ 25% (including DIG)
3066 SQM CIRCULATION, WCs, WALLS, RISERS & PLANT
2500 SQM CIRCULATION @ 25%
714 SQM ANCILLIARY SPACES
HAWKINS\BROWN COMPETITION DESIGN 10,620 SQM
1254 SQM ANCILLIARY SPACES/STORE (not including cloud data storage)
2395SQM CIRCULATION @ 25%
3397 SQM TEACHING / LEARNING SPACES
PURE BRIEF ITT 7,155SQM NET 10,221SQM GROSS
80SQM WALLS/ RISERS @ 3.5% 150SQM PLANT SPACE @ 6.5%
380 SQM LAB SPACES
810 SQM MEETING / COLLABORATION SPACES
315 SQM LAB SPACES
2601 SQM OFFICE SPACE
585SQM CIRCULATION @ 25%
50 SQM ROOF GARDEN 657 SQM COMMERCIAL/ BUSINESS SPACES
400 SQM COMMERCIAL SPACES 605 SQM LAB SPACES
4025 SQM OFFICE SPACE 400 SQM COMMERCIAL SPACES 380 SQM LAB SPACES
35 SQM ANCILLIARY SPACES/STORE
1128 SQM ANCILLIARY SPACES
RevA: DEVELOPED BRIEF 17/04/14 11,176 SQM
2600 SQM CIRCULATION @ 25% 300 SQM WALLS @ 2.5% (including DIG)
500 SQM PLANT SPACES @5%
Rev B: DEVELOPED BRIEF INCLUDING CIRCULATION / PLANT ALLOWANCES 28/04/14 14,176 SQM
520 SQM PLANT SPACES @5%
Rev C: DEVELOPED BRIEF INCLUDING CIRCULATION / PLANT ALLOWANCES 12/05/14 13,487 SQM
621 SQM ENERGY STORE + PLANT SPACE @ 5% (Including DIG)
Rev D: DEVELOPED BRIEF INCLUDING CIRCULATION / PLANT ALLOWANCES 28/05/14 16,191 SQM
335SQM WALLS/ RISERS @ 3.5% 825SQM ENERGY STORE + PLANT SPACE @ 6.5%
Rev E: DEVELOPED BRIEF INCLUDING CIRCULATION / PLANT ALLOWANCES 02/06/14 13,182SQM
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commercial, new build
FIRM WORK
Paragon Architects
Role within project:
Corlett Drive
Johannesburg size: 4500m² / 48 427ft² Work stage : RIBA equivalent 7 Cost : 62 000 000 ZAR Period: May 2012 - October 2013
Conceptual massing Council submission Detailed technical documentation Service co-ordination using Revit Links and Autocad layouts overlaid into Revit ceiling/ soffit plans. Structural co-ordination over-laying steel engineer’s models. Weekly site & project meetings Weekly client & tenant meetings Client presentation using Photoshop Project administration Inspection and quality reports Door schedules using Revit Cladding details Revit information modelling (BIM)
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Site challenges - vehicle noise, shape, floodline/ water table, slope, security. Budget constraints - having to value engineer the structure. Material application to curved forms. Curved concrete forms. Steel forms of pods. Specialised programme and specific circulation. Access control/ security demands. Technical detailing to produce organic shapes. Quality inspection of glazing facade on high scaffolds using harnesses.
Role within project: Conceptual massing Council submission Detailed technical documentation Service co-ordination using Revit Links Site inspection Structural Co-ordination over-laying steel engineer’s models Weekly site & project meetings Weekly client & tenant meetings Client presentation using photoshop Project administration Inspection and quality reports Door schedules Cladding details Revit information modelling
8 photograph: Andrew Bell for Paragon Architects
This landmark office complex overlooks the M1 freeway running through central Johannesburg. The concrete structure features a two storey office structure with curved gable ends. The building comprises: 1. Three levels of basement parking with 1480m² storage facilities. The fire department required the warehouse storage to be compensated with a 300m² water storage tank, positioned in basement 3. 2. An external ground floor podium floating at highway level with three organic pod shaped volumes, used for reception and waiting area, training rooms, office and meeting rooms, all lying an indigenous landscaped garden. 3. Office spaces include a first and second floor of 1560m² each.
4. Roof top - entertainment area with full canteen and landscaped deck amongst and within three organic pods of the same cladding layers as ground floor. Right: The Revit mass which was linked into a central Revit file. Materials were attached to organic undulating faces, producing an accurate method to detail and measure various skins of the ‘pod’ forms. Each gable end facade was caste from 3 different timber shutters. Once stripped each shutter would rotate vertically and be used a second time on the opposite end of structure. Vertical boxed-out sections of the concrete shutter created east and west facing fenestration openings, where later, laminated solar curved glazing would be inserted from scaffolds. The east and west concrete facades were originally designed to receive a high-class timber plank textured shutter, but was later replaced with a smooth steel shutter due to budget constraints.
The concrete podium stretches hard up against building lines on three sides and is restricted by a 100-year flood line on its fourth boundary. The basement facade comprises a continuous ribbon of concrete which sandwiches powdercoated silver louvre blades. This harshness is softened with the ground floor landscaping and is a response to the closeness of street edge. The harsh basement facade acts as a security buffer, creating a raised and secure space amongst the organic curves on ground floor podium.
9 Photos: Kate Keightley-Smith
The brief of this building maintained that it would be used as an advertising canvas. The Ground floor podium lies elevated along a major highway providing a solid east and west gable end surface which faces arterial vehicle routes. These ‘faces’ were always intended to be used as advertising spaces based on the approval by local authority of advertisement rights. Unfortunately, in order for the developers to for see the project as being viable, they would have to supplement the cost with funds brought in from advertisers. Our beautiful concrete facade with curved glazing would soon be concealed.
space requirements were to be hardwaring yet stimulating. The tenants requirements involved high-spec conference rooms for business meetings with prospective clients. The company’s own staff required a large open plan environment. The three spaces are distinctly demarcated, while hard and soft landscaped areas make up the negative space. The longitudinal section below indicates how three coneshaped ‘pods’ seemingly puncture through the concrete off-shutter box which floats on 36 ‘pilloti’ style columns. The materiality of the two provide a strong juxtaposition which is softened by thick indigenous landscaping on ground and roof levels. At dust through until late evening the box glows. Passersby are witness to working staff, elevated through a double storey high performance glass facade.
The womb-like structures on ground floor came about from the tenant’s very specific business routine of running their business Variation in programme informed three very insulated an segregated spaces. The operational process of the tenant’s company involved young students who would come to be trained in 4 +/- 30 seater training rooms. The
Below elevations were part of the submission to local authority. In order for the building to be approved, it was to be ensured that the building’s edges be thoroughly landscaped. The site is situated adjacent to a park including a river which residents use regularly. The council requested that due to its location, the building compliment the park with landscaped elevations. We were to plant three out of four boundary lines with indigenous creeping plants and trees. Ironically, as architects, our intention was always to conceal the lengthly stainless steel balustrading on ground and roof levels, using long deciduous grasses which die back in winter months. Amongst Dietes and Agapanthus, a sawcut high-polished concrete walkway creates a compelling approach towards flush glazed shopfront doors into the reception space.
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commercial, refurbishment
FIRM WORK
Paragon Architects 6 Sandown Valley Crescent Johannesburg size: 15 900m² / 171 146.18ft² Work stage : RIBA equivalent 4 & 5 Cost : 120 000 000 ZAR
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Core layout and design Council submission Detailed technical documentation Site inspection Weekly site &project meetings Weekly client & tenant meetings Client presentation using Photoshop Project administration Inspection and quality reports Door schedules/ Room Schedules/Finishing Schedules using Revit schedule and door families Timber cladding details Revit information modelling (BIM) Sun Stud
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Site challenges - tight site, Budget constraints. Material application to curved forms. Parking ratio demands within a small area and tight floor to soffit height to work with. Exiting structure having to remain. Time constraints. Demanding and involved client.
The existing building, built in the 1080’s, belonged to a law firm and was run down and aesthetically displeasing in juxtaposition to its modern neighbours within the Sandton precinct. Bought by a property developer, the brief was to make a suitable structure for a prospective tenant. Most existing components were gutter leaving merely a structural shell of floor slabs and columns. The site’s slope and inefficient shape various challenges in design through to site.
aluminium. The Novelis sheet metal is supported by an aluminium frame which in turn is secured to a steel cage, running the entire height of the stairwell. The staircase which runs up within the frame is to be painted charcoal so as not to reveal itself through the cut-outs. The staircase will be back lit from within, in order to achieve the opposite image at night. This process was workshopped by myself and two others architects with the aid of the structural engineer and specialist subcontractor.
After adding two partially enclosed fire escapes to the east and west ends of the building, an opportunity arose to design both perforated aluminium clad ends of the structure. After variations of patterns we decided on a composition of abstracted leaf-shaped openings cnc cut from Novelis
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FIRM WORK
Paragon Architects Topo da Mata Rio de Janeiro size: unknown Work stage : RIBA equivalent 2 Cost : unknown Period: June 2012 - July 2012
Role within project: I was one of 6 who made up the team to design the conceptual ‘Topo da Mata’, which would later be realised if Paragon were to come first amongst other firms. Each of us designed a component to the scheme and then designed the interweaving of the precinct as a whole. Later, I was one of 2 who had the responsibility to Photoshop the project into a more convincing scenario. Paragon’s Brazilian office was able to acquire Paragon as being one of 5 architectural firms to propose
16 photograph: Andrew Bell for Paragon Architects
a scheme within competition constraints for a Brazilian company who wished for a scheme, designed within the protected Brazilian forest of Rio de Janiero. The precinct included a platform of circulation running through the dense thicket of trees - an ode to wilderness awareness in an era where information is available everywhere. Our design involved training centres, hanging sleeping pods, canteen and food spaces, a funicular, fire pits and a museum for readily available information. The walking platforms were to be raised above the forest floor, touching the earth lightly from a colonnade of steel poles. The parking area, positioned at the foot of the mountain led on to a reception area, varying in programme which eventually let to the ‘Google Tree’. Tourists and locals can weave their way through a 2 dimensional exploded cut section of what appears to be a tree, however when close up reveals flat screen monitors which relay information regarding conservation in Brazilian forests. With the imminent Football World Cup, this ‘amusement’ type precinct would be sure to attract tourists and locals.
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Working closely with a team of designers where everyone wished for their ideas to be heard. An abstract and esoteric brief. Creating realistic impressions of complex structures.
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commercial
FIRM WORK
Paragon Architects Angola Offices Luanda size: 24 760m² / 265 868.5ft² Work stage : RIBA equivalent 3 Cost : unknown Period: July 2012
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Translating client brief into programmed spaces. Massing building based on gross and rentable floor area Forming the mass and shape of the building. Modelling using masses in Revit and attached curtain walls. Client presentation using Revit and Photoshop
Luanda’s density and city structure make for an incredibly difficult task in building high-spec, technically advanced structures. We were also restricted by building lines and a site area of 2000m² for a 27000m² building area. The client’s brief included over 200 parking bays, on a site where earthworks would be extremely difficult. We managed to design for 4 levels of basement parking, restricted hugely by a spiralling ramp, allowing 250 bays. The 14 varying floor plates included lift shafts, fire escapes and a 10th floor garden. The ground floor, with a much larger floor to soffit height, is programmed as mixed-use with two receptions proving multi- tenanted upper levels. A single atrium runs 10 floors of the structure in section creating the illusion that the structure two buildings, cutting up the mass as to result in an elegant and expressive form. The south face of the building comprises horizontal silver louvre blades, providing protection from harsh sunlight onto a typical office floor plate. The east and west ends form an a hour-glass shaped
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silhouette, mimicking two androgenous forms in a back to back stance. This allows circulation space to run in an east-west direction, maximising floor plate space and gross rentable area. These facade ends were designed to be constructed from steel frame, clad in an aluminium sheet material. The glazed regions on these faces are sunk into the building space with enough overhang shading to allow a comfortable working environment.
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Challenges: Short time frame for design and presentation Allocating client’s brief / area within tight constraints of the site. Designing media-orientated spaces with specific lighting conditions. Designing and producing presentations and concepts without a team/others.
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education
FIRM WORK
TC Design Architects
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Campus Centre Extension
The brief entailed low to no maintenance areas while ensuring a level of respect towards the existing antiquated structures in its surroundings. Most campus buildings were designed during the explosion of precast innovation where a certain mechanical harshness became the standard. The buildings cubic rigidity hints at this style, however the newness of the yellow and white spandrels reveal its youth.
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg size: 3800m² / 40 902.85ft² Work stage : RIBA equivalent 7 Cost : 9 000 000 ZAR Period: January 2012 - March 2012
Role within project: t Site Inspection - Quality Reports t Technical documentation t All break-out space joinery documentation and co-ordination with sub-contractor t Furniture kit out and layout - working with tenants t Specification documentation and building manual
The elevated concrete box hovers above a parking lot with fire escapes on either end, a simple look out platform enclosed in an off-shutter wrapping. A glazed curtain wall featuring yellow and white spandrel panels slots within the concrete frame. Each stairwell end is clad in 9 galvanised steel grids where a diagonal strut mimics each flight of stair. Project Challenges:
The University of Witwatersrand’s undertaking to increase its annual intake of students has brought about the need for a larger teaching and academic space. Campus Centre Extension makes up a portion of the university’s master plan of support facilities for the intake of desperately required new staff. This addition to the main Campus Centre Administration Building compiles two floors, added to an existing 80’s style concrete structure which houses up to 90 new and present staff, including formal boardrooms, informal meetings areas and kitchenette nodes. The second floor features an open and covered, hard-landscaped garden, ‘villa savoye’ like, pushing the bygone enclosed and insular office type spaces, into an outside environment. The building was to be designed with the blind and paraplegic in mind, featuring ramps, elevators and paraplegic grab rails within breakouts spaces. The structure ties into an existing ramp system which runs throughout the
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Sanitary and tile layout & design Statutory requirements /local authority requirements
This landmark office complex overlooks the M1 freeway running through central Johannesburg. The concrete structure features a two storey office structure with curved gable ends. The building comprises: 1. Three levels of basement parking with 1480m² storage facilities. The fire department required the warehouse storage to be compensated with a 300m² water storage tank, positioned in basement 3. 2. An external ground floor podium floating at highway level with three organic pod shaped volumes, used for reception and waiting area, training rooms and office and meeting rooms, all lying amongst an indigenous landscaped garden. 3. Office spaces include a first and second floor of 1560m² each.
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4. Roof top - entertainment area with full canteen and landscaped deck amongst and within three organic pods of the same cladding layers ad ground floor. The Revit mass which was linked into a central Revit ďŹ le where materials where attached to the organic faces, producing an accurate method to detail and measure the skin of the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;podâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; forms. Each gable end facade was cast from 3 different shutters. Once stripped each shutter would rotate vertically and be used a second time on the opposite end of structure. Vertical boxed-out sections of the concrete shutter created east and west facing fenestration openings, where later, laminated solar curved glazing would be inserted from scaffolds. The east and west concrete facades were originally designed to receive a high-class timber plank textured shutter, but was later replaced with a smooth steel shutter due to budget constraints.
Built-in furniture and joinery - 2D Revit
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FIRM WORK
Daffonchio and Associates Architects Arts on Main - Nirox Studio Downtown Johannesburg size: 4300m² / 14 107.60 5ft² Work stage : RIBA equivalent 3 Cost : 5 000 000 ZAR Period: July 2009 - January 2010
Role within project: Client/developer briefings and meetings. Tender documentation Construction technical drawings Site management Photography
In 1911, a mere 25 years after Johannesburg began developing, Arts on Main was originally built. It began as a bonded Liquor store and a construction company. In the 1960’s a new architectural phenomenon began in New York City, in the SoHo district, which saw the conversion of old industrial warehouses into domestic and work spaces. Originally favoured by artists due to their need for space, the artistic lifestyle became synonymous with these conversions. This became one of the important tendencies in architecture and brought about a change in the direction of migration, from suburban areas to the city centres, creating a new urban awareness. Side effects of such phenomenon and highly controversial, is the process of gentrification. A supported of inner city rejuvenation, I was well aware during the process of this project and Main Street Lift of the women who work in sweat shops and the migrant labour who were driven out of these regions due to the capitalizing of developers.
Nevertheless, what was once formerly associated with industrial warehouses, represents not only abodes for artists and bohemians but also hot properties desired by urban professionals and creative businesses. This is what Arts on Main has today become. The conversion at Arts on Main honours the building’s history highlighting features such as the double volume ceilings, concrete floors and over sized windows, while incorporating more contemporary elements to reflect the creativity and innovation the space promotes. Nirox Studios was commissioned by Benji Lieberman who allows artists a residency within his studios in order for work to be produced. The space thus requires a sleeping area with bathrooms facilities for a single person. It also requires water and storage within the studio space.
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new drywalling flush with new storeroom door
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FIRM WORK
Daffonchio and Associates Architects Main Street Life - (Hastem House) Downtown Johannesburg size: 21 500m² / 70 538.058 5ft² Work stage : RIBA equivalent 7 Cost : 25 000 000 ZAR Period: July 2009 - January 2010
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Site investigation. (Measure and find existing drawings) Model complete existing structure in Revit based on findings on site. Demolition drawings. Proposal to developer. Presentation using Revit and Photoshop. Construction and technical drawings in Revit and CAD Design of furniture within units. GLA and rentable plans. Working with artists who were to design “12 Decades Hotel.” Site meetings. Design of roof top bar Council Submission
Main Street Life is part of the on-going Maboneng Precinct project, which began with the hugely successful Arts on Main. The space is an eclectic mix of art galleries, advertising agencies, artists’ studios, retail spaces and restaurants. The property developer worked closely with myself and Enrico Daffonchio, transforming this industrial building into a modern yet functional complex showcasing small apartments to penthouses, shops to restaurants, creative workspaces to a roof venue with a stunning 360º view over the city. The top floor is home to the 12 Decades Johannesburg Arts Hotel. This self-catering boutique hotel embodies a unique concept The developer commissioned some of South Africa’s bestknown designers and artists to take the 12 rooms of the hotel and have them represent Johannesburg’s past 12 decades.
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Site investigation - finding that the existing tenants were various sweat shops which were overcrowded and dirty. Deciphering the existing structure from very old plans Demanding client/developer who was very involved in the design process.
The units in Main Street Life vary from 33 square meters to 120 square meters. The furniture in the smaller units was designed with Adrian Hugo from Doktor and Misses; modular pieces. These units were aimed at students living in the inner city. The large units had more bespoke furniture pieces designed my myself (see left on castor wheels). These units were all open plan with a very industrial atmosphere while still maintaining a level of high-spec within the large apartments. Common spaces are available on each floor, surrounding the lift core and lobby, where a lounge environment was designed with free Wifi. The culture of the precinct abides to the idea of free living within tight city constraints.
thus designed around this icon, the telescope, central to the communal out door area where residents and hotel guests came to eat and drink and watch the city. The area was littered with glass enclosures with soft beddiwng for comfort. The design incorporated concealing the large ducts from the waste pipes of the units.
Below: Basic Isometric views of the Revit model. Each unit was linked into the central file for ease of use.
Below Left Marcus Neustetter ‘ telescope’ done for Jonathan Liebermann and Enrico Daffonchio.
Below: Renders done for developer and client presentation; the communal roof space including the telescope cage.
One of the artists of the 12 Decades Hotel with whom we worked was Marcus Neustetter. Neustetter produced pen-ink drawings of telescopes in a city landscape. When designed the roof space at Main Street Life, Neustetter was commissioned to design a large scale steel structure to take an oversized cone shaped telescope. The roof scape was
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House Wides December 2009
conceptual design conceptual massing in Revit
House Botha December 2009
Council Submission Design layout and basic construction details
interior interior interior
site study weekly project/client meeting technical drawings 3D views and modelling - client presentation weekly site visit council submission
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House Coci July 2009 - December 2009
model existing structure from site study conceptual layout and design of units conceptual roof design measure site and existing building technical documentation client meetings
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Main Street Life July 2009 - December 2009
client brief and meetings tender documentation technical drawings construction oversight photography
interior
mixed-use/refurb mixed-use /residential
Arts on Main - Art Galleries July 2009 - December 2009
Back Interior Design
residential/ office
residential
FIRM WORK
Daffonchio and Associates Architects
360 degrees December 2009
House Doorasamy March 2010
House Back January - September 2010
House Mayers July 2010 - March 2011
3D modelling of interior spaces medium sized kitchen joinery lobby furniture design and technical drawings of joinery
3D perspectives of new exterior design interior furniture layout
paving and tiling layouts of interior and exterior joinery documentation and detail drawings
joinery and furniture design site meetings site inspection client meetings conceptual design interior design of house tiling and paving layout
House Wetzl November 2010
furniture layout
House Schmidt November 2010
furniture layout
domestic
Posniak Motocycle Garage
commercial
Woodlands Gatehouse & Landscape
Jan 2008 - October 2009
residential
May 2008 - December 2009
domestic
conference
lodge
March 2008 - December 2009
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lodge
FIRM WORK
Micheal Scholes and Associate Architect
House Shanduka
Lebala Lodge
Dinokeng Lodge July 2008 - October 2009
House Pahad February 2008 - January 2009
House Woodhead November 2008- January 2009
conceptual design council submission heritage assessment details and technical documentation site inspection design of landscaping and gatehouse council submission technical documentation site inspection client meeting assisted working drawings project administration inspection and quality reports assisted sketch/design drawings building of physical model for client finishes, fit out and furniture layout project meetings Bathroom design and fit outs client presentation drawings site visits initial design layout stages layout drawings snagging site visits photography model for clients initial working drawings site documentation and survey conceptual drawings client presentation drawings
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Master Class “ on the edge” Durban April 2011
Myself and three other students embarked on a journey to Durban for a four day workshop from 14 to 17 April 2011. After visiting Warwick Junction, Durban City by Richard Dobson Architect, we returned to a beach front studio where we conceptualized and then proposed ideas relating to “edges”. The paradox with which we were presented, was that between a pristine beach front and Warwick Junction. Similar to Kwa Mai Mai cultural market in Johannesburg, this space allows traders to sell traditional healing and medical goods as well as merchandise to people passing through an urban link. This intervention was designed around the economies and dynamics of informality. (Knipe 2008:88). The success of Warwick Junction lies in that trade capitalizes upon peoples’ routes. This opens new opportunities for proposed programmed spaces. Boys playing pool, people shopping, traders awaiting transport all at close proximity to a main arterials underlines the importance of activities at the “edge”. This edge provides promise for activities to be fulfilled owing to the nature of one’s everyday journey.
Parametric Master Class Johannesburg July 2011
From 8 to 17 July I participated in a digital constructions, parametric modelling design workshop. Although not directly related to my thesis topic which was underway, it did allow my current trajectory to widen. After a two day crash computer course in Rhinoceros its plug-in Grasshopper we were to use our newly acquired skills to design low-income housing which would be affected by changing parameters. Grasshoper allows one too change any aspect of the design so to better suite the user. ie weather conditions, sun angles, roof overhang lengths, all to aid and speed up design process. What was of interest was how modular units (in this case social housing enclosures) fit together and how the parametric variables of each could be manipulated according to the proximity of clustering and weather conditions. Similar to containers and their ability to fit together and lock into place, myself and 6 others designed a unit which was driven by the notion of clustering. Shack housing in informal settlements congests to extremities owing to space shortages. Regarding space efficiency, we designed each unit the target that four units could back into each other creating a group. This also allows for a privacy threshold as well as demarcated circulation routes when laid out linearly.
Low-cost Church Hamburg, Eastern Cape, South Africa 2009
The design of a church in Hamburg, Eastern Cape, saw me travel down to this small and rural part of South Africa several times. The community there used an early 1920â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s building for Sunday and weekly services, however in December 2007 it burnt to the ground as part of suspected vandalism. The community required a church up on the hill which faced the Keiskamma river below. The church was to reuse existing stained glass windows set within clay bricks, below an open truss rectangular structure. The church walls were to be 500mm thick, allowing each window slot to form a seat. The church design is very simple as the community itself was to build it from existing and donated materials from within the town. The surroundings were to be landscaped with seated surfaces, within protected berms so that Sunday School could be held outside and the spaces would be protected from the winds coming off the coast line.
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Architectural Thesis submission Dry Port Support
proximity to the CBD. Transnet has proposed the expansion
Deep and Spoornet’s Kazerne are both made up of various
Urban Strategies for City Deep’s Terrain Vague
of its inter-modal container terminal Of Kazerne, along with
components which work independently from each other. This
road infrastructure and lighting masts across both City Deep
document serves to investigate the feasibility of restoring use
2011 For Link to Full Thesis document:
and Kazerne. This 130 hectares of land is intended to meet
into this terrain, a use which is simultaneously beneficial to
http://issuu.com/katekeightley-smith/docs/
a future demand of medium-rated space for containers. The
surrounding communities, an expanding container terminal
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surrounding processing industries are also forecast to grow
and the environment in which it wildly lies.
in capacity and size. (City of Johannesburg Transportation Department, 2009, 14). What lacks amongst these expansive Every year 310 000 containers are transported by rail into
terrains, is any form of supporting facility, that which aids
“Google” perspectives have a way of captivating any
City Deep and Kazerne container terminals. By 2020, this
the labour force, the drivers of massive machinery, those
landscaper or designer owing to the variations of scale and
number should increase to 500 000. (City of Johannesburg
which keep containers moving, the modern-day slave to
measures of control at which one can view the surface of the
Transportation Department, 2009, 1) Although Transnet
globalization. The labour force will in the future, increase with
earth. This vast and toxic terrain has left me encapsulated
owned railway yards and truck container depots are a
the additional container depot space. The number of container
through potential and ideal of what this site holds. The
huge economic drive in Johannesburg, much of this space
trucks which transport these containers will consequently
site however needs to be fully understood and carefully
is disused and degenerate.
increase. A pinnacle ‘cog’ in the mechanism that is container
unpacked at the level of each system of operation. What
transportation via road in Southern Africa, is City Deep and
appears to be one singular goods terminal at Kazerne
Kazerne, yet neither area yields any place regarding trucking
is actually a variety of companies who deal with specific
maintenance. The road conditions of the area are subsequently
storage and transportation needs of their customers. An
threadbare and dilapidated with a great lack of coherence,
understanding of each operation had to be gathered from
signage, systematic movement and communication.
each corporate company individually. From here, Kazerne
Transnet previously had sole rights to freight transport from
emerges as a working machine, made up of different
Durban, Cape Town and Port Elizabeth into Johannesburg.
components. Each is quiet different in density, intention,
Currently local road haul activity is now controlled by a
structure and in anthropological state. When zooming out
variety of logistics companies. As a result, each container
and viewing City Deep as a whole, it merges again into one
terminal acts independently as a smaller-scale operation.
area, navigated as a route or road map, having different
The loss of coherence and depot communication within City
stations which make up a sum of its parts, a completed
Deep prevails. Instead of one large container terminal, City
journey.
To make use of the undeveloped spaces of City Deep would be to ‘infill’ vacancies, assisting in the promotion of the idea of a compact city. (Jenks, Burton & Williams, 1996) The compact city draws parallels to the notion of the ‘resilient city’ in that transportation and overall infrastructure costs decrease. (South African Cities Network, 2011) The proposals of industrial or commercial activity in this area would result in the promotion of the economic growth of Johannesburg. These ‘pockets’ of land surrounding the marshalling yards and cargo depots are ideally located in that they exist within close
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What attracted me to the site initially was the manner in which supposed tightly coordinated systems occur amidst a chaos. I learnt later that this chaos manifests itself owing to a very specific condition. This condition comes from the meeting of two very strong arrangements. One arrangement is the set of existing buildings. These existing structures can further be parted into two groups, those buildings which are generic in form and layout, yet used daily, and then those which lie in ruin. The other arrangement, is the human side of freight operation. This humanist mechanism comes with a brutal routine, strenuous on the body, cruel in its hours. The non-human side to this freight sector, that which comprises structure and building, mere envelopes around which it works, is rigid, banal and often superfluous. This
“The terrain vague runs contrary to the desired image of a prosperous city. Because it punctuates the ideal of plenty and order, generally associated with urban prosperity, it presents a problem. While waiting for future developments to solve the problem, people try to ignore the’ terrain vague’, abandoning it to lucrative parking lots or trying a quick cosmetic fix to minimize the possibilities for use.” (Lévesque 2002: 6-7) “Since the 1920’s when the railway goods yard for the Johannesburg area was moved from Braamfontein to Kazerne, the area experienced gradual growth in freight transport activities. The relocation of the Fresh Produce market in the 1970’s also resulted in many food and cold storage related businesses contributing to freight transport to and from the area.” (City of Johannesburg Transportation Department 2009: 1)
Model of City Deep and Kazerne by author between March and October 2011. Laser cut grey card and perspex. White indicates roads while coloured blue and white perspex indicates containers. Opposite photograph shows 2 meter contours of a mine dump being reprocessed for gold dust. Scale 1:2000
superfluity exists in that freight operation is not dependent on enclosed architecture. What is pertinent is that these sterile and seemingly unorganized operations occur owing to this paradox.
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The Foreign Office BAS Honours design Studio 2010
Foreign people and their stories as asylum seekers, is a point to which my design was central. Rockey/Raleigh Street is alive with trade, communication and emotional tensions experienced by refugees. Instead of a destitute xenophobic suffering community, a strength and specificity lies prevalent in the way foreigners in Yeoville live their lives. Their technological abilities and methods allowing communication with families back home riffles any computer corporate. The initial reason of interest was in the architectural manner in which they used their space. Rockey/ Raleigh street is layered with a language difficult to comprehend initially. When one goes beyond the prelude, a new sediment of space transpires. The courtyard, the ally, the services, the void. These spaces are manifest through necessity rather than through a cut-copy projected colonial or perhaps “contemporary” structure This necessity is from where a certain language arises. The built environment suddenly becomes a space constructed from reason instead of ideal. Cutting through Rockey Street at various points, and drawing from the section, the spaces behind the street front emerge as the ‘belly’, a defensive space, away from street tensions, roaming police and vehicular traffic. The possibility lies in that what if this defensive space were to cater for these very anxieties and hardships felt by a foreigner. What if this space was as architecturally advanced as modern day technology proves to be? ‘Sugar bags’ are cheap bags which street vendors use to transport goods. After photographing sugar bags, they became the compartment from which a temporary nomadic tent structure would expand, providing a secure structure out of which people would operate. Entrepreneurs could also use such a space, constructing it from anywhere, into any void space. This intervention sees the meeting of hi-technology and low materiality, providing a defensive place, flexible in size but specific in programme.
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