The Architectural Design Portfolio of Silindzile Shongwe
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Part 2
: An exploration into Architecture and ,,,,,its various representations.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS HONOURS WORK SKETCH SERIES 1 Mapping the City
SKETCH SERIES 2 Building and Landscape
SKETCH SERIES 3 Refortifying a city
SKETCH SERIES 4 Perception and Place
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HONOURS WORK THEMES: HERITAGE AND CULTURAL LANDSCAPES HUMAN SETTLEMENTS PHENOMENOLOGY LANDSCAPES OF MEMORY READING LANDSCAPE
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Theoretical Explorations
Site: Wesfort
Historical Layering of Wesfort
Learning Facility Building Memory
Recording Room
Storing and Reciting Memory
Learning Facility: Floor Plan
Construction process sketches
Section Development Sketches
Using Biophilia to articulate the threshold between building and landscape
Construction Exploration Sketches Detailing connections between materials
Final Section of Learning Facility
Sectional Perspective
Approach to Place
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Sketch Series 1 Mapping the City: Pretoria CBD, South Africa
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Reinterpreting the Hidden in Pretoria Wonderboom Nature Reserve
Mapping Gateways and Ridges
Mapping Historic Fortifications Layered over gateways and ridges
Walking the City Revealing the Hidden
Capitol Theatre
Hidden Mosque
Rentbell Towers
Capitol Theatre
Exising and Imagined Spaces Drawing the City
Church Square
Schubert Park
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Sketch Series 2 Building and Landscape: An inquiry into Architectures realtionship with landscape
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Form and Fauna
Formal exploration between primitive and contemporary spaces
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Sketch Series 3 Refortifying a city The following sketches explore the idea of daydream as a medium to refortify the city of pretoria, as the historical forts were never able to protect the city. The site sits on a ridge within the urban fabric and the vision is that it will become a form of escape within the city where one can observe the landscape, the city, and reflect oneself. Location: Wonderboom Nature Reserve
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The Inception of Design
Memory, Place, and Daydream as generators
Method: Palimpsest
Layering old and new prescences
Theoretical Approach Perception, Hapticity, Place.
Occupying the Earth
Architecture as a second escape after landscape
Conceptual Exploration Extending the narrative of the fort
Conceptual Exploration Extending the narrative of the fort
Drawing the Landscape
Reading the Landscape through drawing
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Sketch Series 4 Perception and Place This sketch series explore matters of the imagination and how places are perceived and how perceptions make places.
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Building as Flower Fragile Architecture
Phantasmagoric
Sketching place into being
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