Melville Koppies

Our first project as 3rd year architecture students in 2014

The project location is Melville Koppies West in Johannesburg.

Project theme: Topography/Typology

A map of the Melville Koppies West

Elevations

Floor Plan

Sections

Concept: Reflection

The city is reflected in to the Melville Koppies. steel and brick are used to represent the city in the narural environment. 

The plan is layed out in a circle to represent the 'complete journey' from the city in a natural state( the past) to its current state (the present).

Abstactions

All of the following pictures are abstractions of an industrial building located in Wynberg Johannesburg, just off Louis Botha ave. The project theme is HISTORY AND MEANING

                                                       The original building

The 13 abstractions

These are meant to represent the building in 13 different ways

Beacon/Testimony

Community

Conflict

Context

Fractal

History

Industrial In-Between

Vertical landscape

Meaning

Opportunity

Person

Place

Skin and Void

The drawings were created using different mediums such as ink, water color, charcoal, photographs and photoshop

Our trip to Durban UIA 2014

Follow the link for more photos and experiences

https://plus.google.com/109946419386842088368/posts/aa61gc9BKNH

Denver Project- AFORMAL Terrain

Observations that we made on site.