MODULAR MANUFACTURING

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.

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.

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.

Re-use of existing structures

Parliament Building

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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