Khayelitsha-Auditorium

This was a project/tender I completed alongside my college, TAG443 (The Academy of Guilds).  The brief was to design an auditorium fit for conferences as well as to serve for educational purposes in the township of Khayelitsha.

 

The design of the building took form to that of the "baby grand' piano. Where one side of the roof would be elevated and slightly overlapping the roof of the other, obtaining the look of the mentioned piano when in use.

 

Although we completed the work on time, the college was not awarded the tender and the effort put in was simply added to my portfolio of works.

 

It was about a week ago that my lecturer contacted me, asking me to enter a certain student competition. The brief was to enter a piece of work completed during your studies showing your involvement of Graphisoft- ArchiCAD and your functional capabilities within the software.

                                                        

It just so happens that I actually got into the finals of the competition and came joint third place in south Africa. (see link-->  http://archicadsa.org/2013/04/25/stud-comp-13-tag-andrew-strickland/ )

 

So this project wasn't a waist after all!

 

I actually cant wait to participate in another competition. Its time to move forward!

The Art Pavilion (T.A.P)

The Art Pavilion, an assignment completed not so long ago was to inspire the use of space and how to meet the client’s needs.  

The actual building is to be erected in the back garden of an existing property; therefore size plays quite the significant role. Bearing in mind only three major pieces had to fill the space at any given time. Namely a scaled version of the Tatlin Tower by Vladimir Tatlin, the red blue chair by Reitveld and an ancient African entrance door.

The building itself had to perform as an art piece, something looked upon just as the art work held within it. Designing to hold the certain pieces came across quite enjoyable, using details of the art work to form the features of the building and in a greater scale designing the building to enhance the visual effects of the art pieces.For instance, by creating a gathering area on top of the gallery this enabled me to add in a sky light which purposely is situated directly above the scaled Tatlin Tower, with the tip of it dramatically projecting through the slab and into the glass box (sky light).

The second part of the project was to design a logo for the “art Gallery” and thereafter create a franchising spec book. Which in turn, I had to create the idea myself by taking an existing building and converting it to the art pavilion (TAP).

Medi-Clinic Design

This assignment proved to be rather interesting. Basically the brief description has been fully covered in the “post title”. Bit of research, trial and error and bob’s your uncle I had a simple design concept to work with. The first part of the brief’s instruction was, as just mentioned, to come up with a decent (workable) design concept for a small hospital or if you must a medi-clinic.

The location of the site was given to us. All that had to be done is take a quick run around and grab your ‘self some dimensions. Sounds easy? Rather time consuming.

Now, the twist comes into play when we were asked to incorporate a market and joint coffee shop. Which I gather is used to attract and keep the mopping visitors from constantly paroling the corridors.

Once a presentation board had been completed the next task was to design and detail the roof structure (as the concentration of the late classes had been on the detailing of roofs).

All in all, an enjoyable project to work on.

Maurtitius

On the 8^th of August 2011 I embarked on my business trip to Mauritius. Might I add that I had only found out the day before! What an adventure.

My purpose was to meet our franchisee clients in Mauritius and to revise/discus their store, that is to be built in the brand spanking new mall in bagatelle. Mission complete and the store layout is finalized.

In the photos added you will see the exterior mall as well as the interior being constructed, and some of the small details being finalized for the “white box” of our store. Trenches, recesses and so on.

Everyone keep an eye on Mauritius, seems to be a lot of construction going on there. Tons of potential!

Photobooth

So a friend of mine has the task of quoting on a job for a new client. The project is to manufacture easy to build/portable "photo booths", and in the process I have been asked to draw up the model for him and render a few images. Happy with the outcome, thereafter finalizing the quote and presenting to the client, it looks like he has the job. Smile :)