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8 LIV VILLAGE – Designworkshop
LIV Village exits to raise the next generation
of leaders in South Africa. The village places
orphaned and vulnerable children into a family
environment with a trained foster mother to
provide them with love as well as ensuring their
education and physical needs are met. Liv Village
accommodates a community clinic, open-air hall,
educational facilities as well as accommodation
with nurturing foster mothers who are the back-
bone to the discipline and caring of each child.
9 MABONENG PRECINCT –
Daffonchio & Associate Architects
(Gauteng)
The Maboneng Precinct is an open, mixed–use
neighbourhood – and a unique case of vast
urban regeneration produced by one Developer
and one Architect. This historic district in Johan-
nesburg is a complex of developments that
collectively underpin the city centre’s exciting
regeneration resulting from both global inspira-
tion and local innovation. These include studios,
art galleries and a range of shops, restaurants
and coffee bars that are fueling an inner-city
lifestyle, with entrepreneurship and creativity at
its core.
10 NEW BUSINESS SCHOOL FOR
NMMU – The Workplace Architects
with GAPP
The Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
(NMMU) Business School, with the severe exte-
rior, uses a minimalist simple brick while the
interior and courtyard are spatially more diverse,
with a variety of volumes with a multitude of
light sources.
11 OUDEBOSCH CAMP KOGELBERG –
Architecture Coop (Western Cape)
Kogelberg is tucked away above Betty’s Bay, within a
protected wilderness area in the Kogelberg Biosphere,
a UNESCO World Heritage Site. In creating the camp, a
careful path to crafting a sustainable, environmentally
responsive and low impact strategy for settlement
evolved. The multi-disciplinary team mined and mapped,
unravelled, uncovered and unpicked the secrets of the
site ecology. Thus begun ‘hands on’ iterative journey to
build a vision and grow the buildings from the seeds of
understanding the site.
12 OUTREACH FOUNDATION COMMUNITY
CENTRE – Local Studio (Gauteng)
The Outreach Foundation Community Centre is one of
the first new inner-city social infrastructure projects to
be built in Hillbrow since the 1970s. The building site is
situated on the rooftop of the unfinished community hall
of what was the 1970s German Consulate. The building
houses three primary functions: a computer centre,
dance studio, offices and meeting areas. These functions
are collected within an angular volume draped over the
two levels of the site.
13 WITS RURAL FACILITY – Kate Otten
Architect (Gauteng)
The Wits Rural Campus is a 350 hectare environmentally
protected and ecologically sensitive area of indigenous
bush bordering the Kruger National Park. Originally used
for botanical and animal research, it has now developed
into a satellite campus for the university to use as a base
for rural research and training programmes, acting as a
worldclass rural knowledge hub.
14 WWF SA BRAAMFONTEIN – Alive
Architecture (Gauteng)
The WWF building in Braamfontein, the first 6-Star GBCSA
Design Rating on a brownfields site in South Africa, was a
restorative project in a heritage building that dated back
to 1905. The primary focus of the design of the building
was centered on the maximisation of the site parameters
whilst recycling most of the existing materials within
the site and showcasing the raw aspects of the original
building by leaving certain walls unfinished in the orig-
inal brickwork.
CATEGORY B: RESEARCH IN
SUSTAINABILITY
15 DESIGNING HOPE FOR PATHWAYS
TO REGENERATIVE SUSTAINABILITY –
Dominique Hes & Chrisna Du Plessis
(Gauteng)
Designing for Hope
represents a timely, important and
necessary contribution to the literature that provides a
powerful characterisation of current and alternative world
views. It also offers a comprehensive coverage of the scope
and emphasis of regenerative sustainability. Maintaining
both a measure of criticality toward the nature of an
impending set of environmental difficulties that must be
navigated, and yet offering a positive, hopeful message
and perspective again is not an easy task.
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