Participations aux Awards : Speculative
Thirdspace: Negotiating the thirdspace as an emergent territory
South Africa
This work explores notions of power and identity expressed in the Union Buildings This will be investigated in terms of the political initiation allowing for a new image within changing cultural beliefs. The proposed programme opens a new collective memory; one which represents unity amongst all people in South Africa.
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Total des voix du People’s Choice:
6
A celebration of diversity through Architecture, The Wivine Towers.
South Africa
The Wivine towers are a mixed income high-rise proposal for the area of Warwick Junction in Durban known as a hub for multiculturalism and diversity. The proposal uses Architecture as a platform to express the values of diversity as a potential key to African identity and authenticity for future generations.
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Total des voix du People’s Choice:
202
Museu CNAD, centro nacional de artesanato e design
Cabo Verde
CNAD, National Center for Crafts and Design. A renewed vision on the art of design, crafts and culture in the city of Mindelo. A simple structure in reinforced concrete and glass with a double ventilated façade, realized through the fixation in a light metallic structure of recycled metal barrels caps.
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Total des voix du People’s Choice:
10
Architecture Versus Urbanisation City Space [AVUCITYSPACE]
Malawi
With urbanisation comes changes in cityscapes that have affected open city spaces creating challenges particularly in left over and abandoned space. AVUCITYSPACE explores how architecture through a rethinking of urban design can enhance city character, transforming challenges into opportunities and initiate policy formulation regarding [public] spaces around and within developments.
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Total des voix du People’s Choice:
389
The Monolith of Kasulo
The Democratic Republic of Congo
A Monolith; the concretization of a crafted public space, in an area of leftover. An artisenal public architecture that exploit the landscape and try to help an economically affected community, where rituals define space and where education will rise through the act of making, experiencing, imitating and reconnecting to materiality.
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Total des voix du People’s Choice:
30
Student Container City
South Africa
South Africa has a very serious shortage of Suitable housing for students.This Project termed "Student Container city" was conceptualized on a "find a need, fill a need scenario", and put out into the public realm to attract a Government or Public institution who share our concerns in this field.
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Total des voix du People’s Choice:
37
Forest Village Affordable Housing Development
South Africa
The concept for the Forest Village Housing Development is based on the common typological narrative of place-making, brought home to ‘local neighbourhoods, my court, our street’. The idea is to create a diverse range of safe recreational spaces overlooked by the community.
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Total des voix du People’s Choice:
336
Catambor
Angola
The safeguard plan of Catambor is to rehabilitate spaces and to revitalize sociocultural values. It is important to reflect deeply on the articulation between these aspects and the socio-spatial dynamics of the urban space where it is inserted in order to highlight the contrast between global and local urbanities.
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Total des voix du People’s Choice:
1469
Urban social housing
Angola
Starting from the idea that architecture can not exist without a program, without purpose and much less without constraints of the place so that it does not become a mere object of construction without poetics and dialogue with the landscape, we try to show a typical Angolan social house.
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Total des voix du People’s Choice:
83