Silindzile shongwe portfolio part 2

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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