The car 'PARK' was designed to solve the parking issues of the area whilst retaining the current sites purpose of open green space for recreational activities.

The building was designed to activate the street edge and create a social green oasis. We reconceptualised the traditional car park and integrated restaurant, shop, green and ramping market space into its mixed use program.

Located within Dunkirk Estate, this design maximises the potential of the small site.
It minimises impact on the surrounding environment by reducing cut and fill.
The building opens up to the north and south to maximise natural light and reduce solar heat gain.

All windows on the upper ground floor slide away to promote cross ventilation and promote indoor/outdoor living. The large expanse of Low-E glass captures views into the forest from both levels, whilst maintaining a good thermal performance

The rainwater collected from the 15000 litre harvesting system will be used to flush toilets and irrigate the landscaping. The indigenous green roof not only reduces heat gain in summer and heat loss in winter, it also serves to visually integrate the built environment with the natural surrounding vegetation.

This was a proposed design for an urban framework and high performance centre for the Kings Park precinct, Durban.

The urban design used the opportunity of the 2020 Olympics as a means of generating an urban framework for the Kings Park Precinct, which would uplift this area of ‘lost space’ . The primary goal of this urban design was to highlight the uniqueness of the region whilst benefiting the users of the city well beyond the requirements of the Olympic bid.

The architectural design of the HPC focused on creating a healthy / environmentally sustainable environment which would allow the users to maximise their sporting potential. Another important aim was to maintain and preserve the natural ecological balance in the Kings Park precinct, as it is one of Durban’s few remaining green open spaces near the heart of the city.

This was a proposed design to regenerate an underutilised and neglected part of the Cape Town city centre by uniting previously separated creative industries.

The primary concept was to analyse contemporary society and formulate an architectural response that liberated rather than confined its inhabitants.
Our society is governed by a rise in technology that has created a media culture of constant change, instantaneous imagery and mass communication.
How can one capture the affects the electronic age has on society and translate these into a building that can communicate with our contemporary media culture?

The design was structured around extensive research into how contemporary society communicates with one another and the built environment.

The original house was a typical closed plan Parkhurst house built after the 2nd Anglo Boer war and structured around the new British town planning model. The renovation strived to create an open plan house with clean lines and easy living while retaining the integrity of the existing.

The focus of this project was to restore an old 1950's modernist house to its former glory. The original plan was very compartmentalized which was opened up for improve natural light and spatial continuity. Fixtures and materials where utilized to bring the design up to date.