Creative Portfolio - Katrin Tenim

CREATIVE PORTFOLIO

Emphasizing and optimizing triangular site this 43000m2 commercial campus offers a flexible floor plates in order to future-proof, allow flexible space-planning, and future sub-division opportunities. The impressive outside spaces with planted areas are used as pause areas, work spaces and facilities for the staff. These facilities include courtyards, outdoor hot desks and yoga facilities with xeriscaped planted areas.

This 55 000 square meter proposed development locates itself in Waterfall Estate. With views directly from the N1 highway between Johannesburg and Pretoria. Conceptually entrances offer multi volume spaces between the office plates with boardrooms located on ground floor and cantilevering into the atrium. Connections both visually and physically allow the internal and external spaces to become one in the same the ground floor is to be set in the landscape. The building orientates predominantly North/South to minimize heat gain into the office plates.

Internally, abundant natural light reaches all parts of the floor plates maximizing comfort within the building. Skylight cones in the atrium filter natural refracted light into the central space. Central cores and atrium space allow for multiple tenant divisibility’s with bridges that link floor plates for future efficiency purpose.

Conceptually, the building is oriented around a publicly accessible plaza that promotes pedestrian engagement with public space. Planted balconies overlooking the plaza soften the space by connecting landscaping from the horizontal plane into the vertical. Walkways around all three sides of the building further promote street interaction. Boardrooms, cafés and gardens fill the ground floor, with strong visual connections and finishes uniting internal and external spaces.

This proposed A-grade office development, offering 20,000m 2 of lettable area over 12 storey’s, is located on the gateway to the Sandton Summit Precinct, fronting directly onto Rivonia Road, Empire Place and Discovery Place.

REFURB TO ABLUTIONS, NEW VISITORS LOBBY & NEW COFFEE BAR

RENDER

BIRDS EYE VIEW

Programmatic Diagram

AXONOMETRIC OF BUILDING ZONING

APARTMENT CONFIGURATION CONCEPT

tudy for the sky Gardens

Park Central Apartments is a high end residential development, offering a wide range of apartment types. The building is located on a site vacated previously six-storey Sasol building situated next to the Rosebank Library Park, within walking distance of the Gautrain Rosebank Station. The apartments have stunning views of the city, and boldly shaped sky gardens will provide some added green space to the urban environment.

Using the concept developed by Le Corbusier in the 1950s, one public internal passage will service three residential floors, with apartments spread over two floors to create a sense of space and light.

This design competition located in the heart of Cape Town’s City Centre across an open park, demonstrates the design considerations of a mixed-use scheme. Between sloping city blocks all lower levels engaged with street interfaces and draw inspiration from local practices namely the ‘stoep’ found in and around the ‘Bo-Kaap’ area, retail areas with individual entrances off all four streets are sheltered by a canopy. The facade fragments through the Centre of the tower opening itself up to a green landscaped belt through the building. Above the retail zone we maintained the existing parking floors and proposed ways for these to have counter-cyclical uses. 8000 square meters of office space with a central atrium provides advantages divisibility options allowing single tenancy or multiple tenancy options.

The residential component of this proposal consisted of two typologies; ‘The Courtyard’ consisting of single level apartments ranging from 45-90 square meters. These apartments offer both a ‘stoep’ condition and a central landscaped courtyard with a range of amenities. The ‘Tower’ typology consisting of double-level apartments with double volume spaces facing both North and South frame views onto Table Mountain as well as the ocean.

Amenity floors offer gyms, walkways, gourmet kitchens, braai areas and many more lifestyle facilities. On the upper-most level a sky-bar with 360deg views of Cape Town offers viewing decks over the entire city.

A design proposal for a 30 000m2

This revised proposal looked to value-engineer the facades in order to achieve a lower rental rate for the tenant yet still achieve a favorable yield.

distribution warehouse located in Midrand, along th N1 highway between Johannesburg and Pretoria. The design brief was to create a statement along the primary highway connecting two major nodes and become a billboard for the company.

Modular manufacturing facility refurbishment, over a plot of 31 000m2 Facilities include three steel portal framed buildings together with its Main Office building as well as production offices.

Pre-fabricated liquid immersion solution experience centre for ALEC Data Centre Solutions. Conversion of a ISO accredited shipping container into an experience centre showcasing state of the art technology. The experience centre is designed to be a temporary building that can be moved with simple craneage methods as required.

The ICD Pavilion, which hosted the LINQ Modular House, is an impressive display of design innovation that features an array of configurations using 8 modules. It is manufactured off-site under strict quality control measures, exhibiting state-of-theart construction methods with unparalleled build quality and a wide range of finishes and layouts. Notably, this remarkable pavilion was achieved through a collaboration between LW Designs and LINQ Modular

Fully UK NDSS compliant product range of Homes & Apartments designed with maximum manufacturing efficiencies to follow DFMA principles with considerations of all logistics and installation requirements. The product range allows multiple modules to be used across unit types for maximum repeatability and reduced wastage. Products have a variety of finishes and performance selections to offer.

Fully UK NDSS compliant product range of Homes & Apartments designed with maximum manufacturing efficiencies to follow DFMA principles with considerations of all logistics and installation requirements. The product range allows multiple modules to be used across unit types for maximum repeatability and reduced wastage. Products have a variety of finishes and performance selections to offer.

2B4P TYPE 1 75m2

2B4P TYPE 2 75m2

3B6P TYPE 1 100m2

3B6P TYPE 2 100m2

MODULAR MANUFACTURING

3D Revit models prepared with high level of accuracy to ensure all parts are included for the manufacturing process to complete works in minimum amount of days.

200-Key Modular Hotel Design concept, developed in as a proof of concept proposal. This design showcases the potential of delivering a modular hotel solution without compromising on design aesthetics and flexibility.

RESTAURANT

Farm-to-table Restaurant: 58 will host an organic restaurant with two very different dining experiences that sources only from local farmers as well as from the agro-ecological farm found on 58. The first, immerses the visitor in a dining experience amongst freshly grown produce which will be served at the restaurant. The second engages and demonstrates the preparation and storage of the produce and food as an important aspect of nourishment as a dining experience. An existing structure is converted into a very tactile and enlightening restaurant seating 75 diners which demonstrates best practices around nourishment, wellbeing and mindfulness.

RESTAURANT PLAN

RESTAURANT ENTRANCE VIEW

RESTAURANT AERIAL VIEW

Boutique Hotel: 35 premium rooms filled with serenity and thoughtfulness will offer private space to immerse in and make genuine connections. Engaging with three of the different yet connected biomes of the rich multilayered landscape, the hotel adapts itself to its environment and offers a unique experience within each microecology. These three experiences include: Building on the characteristics of the lush fault line the rooms situated in the Ravine allow for introspection and solitude. A series of rooms carefully positioned on a platform overlooking the dam connect and add to water and the energy to holds, the platform allows for possibilities of communal areas around a water-scape. The forest rooms are nestled between the indigenous trees of the cradle whilst allowing for a vantage point to view over 58 and the surrounding valley.

1.THE SOURCE

ROOM

WELL

ICE HOUSE

HOT ROOM

SAUNA

HOUSE

TANKS

The Healing Centre aims to treat both those engaging with the space as well as the land where it is situated. Allowing for an individual journey as well as engaged treatment within the space, experiences are created to address all aspects of life, overall wellbeing and mindfulness. The space developed for guests to experience the benefits of water therapy and introspection. The use of monolithic forms with emphasis on light and shadow, allowance of views and restriction thereof, open and contained space, makes for a highly sensuous and therapeutic experience, allowing focus greater physical and emotional well-being to create overall balance.

The journey through the healing Centre entails exploration through a restorative landscape which connects everything; Individual treatment rooms, a Tea House, Flotation Therapy and a Chanting House are some of the treatments that can be experienced on the journey.

THE SAUNA

THE TEA HOUSE

Re-use of existing structures

PARLIAMENT BUILDING

Design Competition comprising of a Parliamentary wing, Government wing, Banqueting hall, VVIP residences as well as Royal residences.

THE GLOBAL INSTITUTE OF GENETICS

This project and research interests this year have been centered on the body in two distinct ways: the body as the site of human origins (genetics) and the body as the site of history (settlement). My Major Design Project is entitled The Global Institute of Genetics and it is located at the first point of known human occupation in Cape Verde, the island’s first inhabited city: Ribeira Grande, which is also the earliest known European settlement in the tropics.

The Institute is located at the intersection of a number of different conditions: between the river Ribeira Grande and the town of the same name; at a point where ocean meets land; Salt water and freshwater converge; the old dock/ quay where the first human genome appeared in the form of sailors who landed ashore.

Cape Verde is one of the world’s most diverse creole cultures. Its genetic makeup is said to be 52% European in the male line, and 48% African in the female line. I see the islands as a microcosm of an increasingly global situation; the growing genetic diversity of the human race. This project explores issues of identity, territory and hybridization in an architectural and landscape proposal, using the fields of biology, microbiology, genetics and material studies as its own base DNA. Understanding skin as another territory that holds an identity, history and culture within it rather than simply an envelope separating the body from environment.

Conceptual exploration of alternative facades and building materials is explored in this project, the future of construction as we know it is in flux and thus our thinking thereof needs to be adapting to the ever-changing built environment. Buildings as organisms and an extension of place is explored.

Full version of this thesis can be viewed in the link below: Https://ujcontent.uj.ac.za/vital/access/services/Download/uj:22863/

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FURTHER PROJECTS

37 COMMERCE CRESCENT Https://paragon.co.za/content/commerce-crescent

39 COMMERCE CRESCENT In construction

110 OXFORD Https://paragon.co.za/content/110-oxford-road

1 PARK LANE Https://paragon.co.za/content/katherine-street-towers