Carr Lebatha - Architectural Design Sample Portfolio Vol. 2

CARR TSHITOE LEBATHA

ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO | vol. 2

What is Architecture to me? An objective truth about making place of the space we occupy It is t o o , a s u b j e c t i v e e x p e r i e n c e t h a t m a k e s a n o c c a s i o n o f t i m e W h e t h e r w e c h o o s e t o b e influenced by it or not, it remains a primary d i a l o g u e b e t w e e n u s a n d o u r s u r r o u n d i n g s Consequencing our psychology and physiology, affecting our well-being and potentially shaping change “You can choose not to look at a painting, or not to listen to a song, you can even ignore a sculpture on the street if you close your eyes, but you can’t chose to ignore architecture”Bruno zevi it is your environment I would be naïve to ever think I could change the world, but completing a degree in Architecture, together with these observations make me excited to be a part of this industry and perhaps play my own s m a l l p o s i t i v e c o n t r i b u t i o n t o c h a n g e a n d improvement in my own communities and those to which I am yet be acquainted HAVING GROWN UP ON A SMALL HOLDING getting covered in red Kalahari sand after school, fashioning wire cars and building the occasional 'mantlwane' (see tswana d e f i n i t i o n ) f r o m b r a n c h e s a n d d r y

veld to play in I loved creating with my hands from a young age & inevitably began my ‘official’ architectural studies in Port Elizabeth for my National Diploma before completing a Bachelor of Architecture in Pretoria As a former athlete I pride myself on perseverance and grit I am an out of the box thinker and often find solutions to problems away from the traditional. I wish for my work to echo the same in some small way I thrive outside off my comfort zone, where I have a l w a y s w i t n e s s e d g r o w t h t a k e r o o t I a m p a s s i o n a t e a b o u t c r e a t i v e d e s i g n s o l u t i o n s , i n t e r r o g a t i n g p r o b l e m s a n d c o n t i n u a l d e v e l o p m e n t E x t e n s i v e e x p e r i e n c e w i t h Autodesk Revit; Autocad and leading realtime rendering softwares I have had exposure to r e s i d e n t i a l , c i v i l a n d c o m m e r c i a l d e s i g n ; documentation and construction both in my own c a p a c i t y a s w e l l a s i n t h e p r e s s u r i z e d environment of a medium sized architectural consortium I am able to communicate and liase w i t h a l l l e v e l s o f s t a f f a n d e x t e r n a l engagements with proficiency and competence to achieve individual and organizational goals

“For me, Architecture is a social act.”

– David Adjaye

house oikos large residential home

a New family home for a private client. The ever changing brief was to create a family home comfortable for both the client and their children to live in harmoniously. The initial concept was of a sketchplan conceived by the client, and considerably developed thereon with regular influence and involvement from the family to create a bespoke fit for their specific needs aswell as desires.

ITERELENG TAXI RANK SHELTER

SUCCESSFUL 4TH YEAR DESIGN COMPETITION PROPOSAL

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In total the covering will facilitate 75 taxis and their respective routes with 5 lanes in total incorporating inbound and outbound traffic.

T h e 5 r o w s w i l l h a v e platform/boarding areas adjacent lanes under the overhead plane Bricks, concrete, corrugated sheets and steel are to be sponsored and were to be the only mater als used ablution facilities in the absence of a municipal sewer line will be...

facilitated for and will be built as a precast concrete septic tank After careful evaluation 5 student projects were identified as the most suitable and diverse, to be presented to the client. from these 5, one was chosen to represent the b.arch 4th year design class, the institution of tut and ultimately the people of the itereleng community to whom it will belong. after dialogue with community leaders; ‘itereleng youth...

empowerment & support program’ secretary and representatives from the taxi a s s o c i a t i o n , i t w a s

understood Their preferences were foremost guided by practicality of taxi versus pedestr an movement and e a s y e r e c t i o n o f t h e s t r u c t u r e s , b u t t h e r a i n w a t e r c a t c h m e n t features of the roofs were t h e m o s t a p p r e c i a t e d ultimately the chosen project was mine, of which I am proud.

Kit of Required Parts sourced From local Pretoria West hardware store “steel and pipes for africa (Pty) Ltd”.

MORNINGSIDE MANOR

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W H I C H W A S T H E P R O C E E D O F A F O R M E R C O L L E A G U E W H O W A S U N A B L E T O M A K E

T I M E F O R T H E P R O J E C T S E V E R A L D I S C U S S I O N S W E R E F O L L O W E D B Y A S u c c e s s f u l

S T R A T E G Y T O F I T T H E M A X I M U M N U M B E R O F U N I T S A L L O W A B L E W I T H I N T H E T I G H T

P A R A M E T E R S O F T H E S L O P E D S I T E T H I S w i t h o u t d e t r a c t i n g f r o m t h e q u a l i t y A N D i n t i m a c y o f t h e H O M E S c r e a t e d w h i l e t h e p r o j e c t d i d r e a c h m u n i c i p a l a p p r o v a l, i t d i d n o t r e a c h c o n s t r u c t i o n d u e t o c l i e n t ’ s f i n a n c i a l c o n s t r a i n t s a v e r y c h a l l e n g i n g a n d f o r t u n a t e e x p e r i e n c e f r o m w h i c h I l e a r n t a g r e a t d e a l a b o u t a c t i v e l y t a k i n g a p r o j e c t f r o m a n a p p r a i s a l a n d d e v e l o p m e n t l e v e l , t o c o u n c i l a p p r o v a l r e a d y

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MY CAMPUS

01 - STRUCTURE AS ARCHITECTURE -a Visitors center & LECTURE halls

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project 2 - student hotel project 1 - visitors center

THE FACILITY CREATED BECOMES A SOCIAL CONNECTOR. LINKING THE NEW ARRIVAL PLAZA ON THE QUIET SIDE OF SITE WITH THE PRIMARY ACTIVITY NODE ON CAMPUS OF THE TRANSPORT TERMINUS TO THE NORTH. THE TEACHING HALLS BECOME

DOMINANT ELEMENTS AFTER THE ROOF WHICH CASCADES ACENDINGLY HUGGING THE LANDSCAPE AS SCALES OF SOMETHING WILD NATIVE TO ITS FAUNA. THESE ELEMENTS OF EXPRESSION WORK IN UNISON TO ORDER AND DEFINE SPACES BELOW.

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MY CAMPUS TUT A GATEWAY TYPOLOGY about TRANSITION and liminality

Whilst acknowledging the brief arrival conditions, spaces of liminality and the transition between thresholds and their perceived identity. The design calls for a new arrival and access point typology for the campus of TUT in the form of gateways where one knows mentally and physically that they are arriving and consequently have arrived on their campus in an engaging way. This without detracting from the pedology of the 'University Institution' archetype.

The proposed new 'Arrival Gate Way' intervention (focusing here on the "West Gate' condition), responds to the vast geographical and psychological distance between arrival at the campus entrance and arriving into the campus itself, bridging the two and addressing the underlying need for the institution to establish a stronger identity in synergy with the scholars it serves. Importance is placed on the transition between spaces and the resultant thresholds, as the nature of an access/egress point in itself is a dialogue of crossing between zones and ones experience of being granted access can inadvertently serve to be empowering by virtues of its exclusivity.

The resulting spaces created in this context aim to accommodate and relate to the 'TUT' student, if only for a pause or a mental acknowledgement of the change in spacial experience that one now knows that they have 'crossed over' into another realm without physically opening a gate or door.

The driving design approach therefore, WAS to create a series of gateways by means of landscaped amphitheatres which serve different functions from transport interchange to public plaza to private courtyards of reflection and interaction, to bring the student into campus in a way that engages them with their environment making what was a route, a place. The conscious decision therefore was to elevate the status of the pedestrian, in the environment that is primarily designed for the automobile, and give them priority. This bridges the gap and brings the campus to the gate, as opposed to the student to the gate via a seemingly extensive journey.

As the need for a permeable but physical barrier remains in our climate of student unrest and protest, a manned guard house was designed for in an unobtrusive way as a constituent piece of the Gate Way intervention. This structure will stem from a long landscaped earth wall that rises from the ground taking advantage of the natural fall on site. It is offset to the perpendicular axis of travel as it sinks into the ground at one end and juts out above the Pretoria skyline presenting a steel TUT emblem proudly at the other. This forms the primary visual threshold as the student is led between a framed gateway at it's centre. Above this configuration, a seemingly suspended three dimensional bronze patina'd triangular form acts as a beacon and marker in space for the access point that students can relate to from afar invoking the memory of the gateway as the portal to their campus and the portal to a better life and brighter future. This effect is facilitated by structural glass between the tectonic beacon and the stereotomic base below..

RHODES UNIVERSITY HERITAGE RESOURCE REVIEW

A report compiled with bryan wintermeyer under his tutelage on behalf of urban designers piet louw and dave dewer.

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foster & partners Mclaren tech. center a technical exploration from pictures, of an existing building

A Construction detailing project to produce a ‘Part Wall Section’ and details of an existing building from a given list of prominent architects. Assigned Norman Foster, I chose to detail the Mclaren Technology Centre extrapolated from readily available images online. These drawings were my own interpretation of how the building was constructed based off of knowledge gained at that point and how I ‘would have’ gone about it. On plan, the building is roughly semi-circular, the circle being completed by a formal lake in the midlands of Surrey which in turn forms an integral part of the buildings cooling system. The principal lakeside facade is a continuous curved glass and steel curtain wall facade, developed in part using McLarens own technology, and shaded by a cantilevered roof. Internally, the building is organised around doubleheight linear streets, which form circulation routes and articulate fingers of flexible accommodation. These house production and storage areas on the lower levels, with top-lit design studios, offices and suspended meeting rooms above.

ADAPTABLE ETFE EXPO DISPLAY STAND

A REPEATABLE HYDRAULICALLY OPERABLE PROTOTYPE MODULE

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PRASA STATION - MAMELODI GREENVIEW

FACADE DESIGN TO ACTIVATE A DERELICT TRANSPORT NODE

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IN SOUTHERN AFRICA, THE ‘BUSHMAN’ REFER TO THEMSELVES AS THE KUA. THESE ARE THE INDIGENOUS DENIZENS OF THE SOILS THAT ARE VISITED ANNUALLY IN THE TANKWA KAROO, FOR A FESTIVAL WHERE A TEMPORARY EXPRESSIVE STRUCTURE IS BURNT AT IT’S EPOCH. MY CONCEPT FOR THE BURN TRIBUTE IS A STORY ABOUT IT’S ERSTWHILE ROAMING INHABITANTS. Design TO BE CUT FROM EIGHT PLYWOOD SHEETS WITH MINIMAL WASTAGE. A METAL HEART STANDS AT THE CENTER WHICH WILL NOT BURN BUT GLOW ALIVE WHILST EVERYTHING AROUND IT burns & crumbles. A didactic HOMAGE TO THE archaic PEOPLE AND an opportune METAPHOR FOR LIFE’S CHALLENGES

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