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Phiri Evidence
M.Arch (Prof) UCT (Cum Laude)
BAS (Hons)
Office Facade Facelift, Harare (2024)
An architecture that engages the psyche is no longer a luxury but a need, especially in this overstimulated generation...
38th Corobrick Awards Ceremony, 1st Runner-up Award | University of Cape Town
Evidence Phiri
Quote from SEA Lecture 2024, Cape Town
about me. about me
ABOUT ME
A philosopher at heart, who explores philosophy and ideas through Architectural Design. Quite passionate about Ideas and the power they have to move people and bring them in touch with reality. The works I create resultantly are inspired by ideas that move the users of space to have an experience, and gain experiential knowledge of themselves as they navigate spaces. Architecture that is rooted on memory, catering for each and every individual psyche of users.
EDUCATION
University of Cape Town // Western Cape, South Africa
Master of Architecture(Professional), M.Arch (Prof)
Degree Class Distinction
Second Best Project in Masters Class
Corobrick 1st Runner-Up
Thesis Investigation: Spatial Absentialities: Reclaiming Zimbabwe’s Absent Past and the Architectural Blueprint for Its Potential Future.
National University of Science and Technology // Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch) Degree Class 2.1
Thesis Investigation: “Archi-texture”: Engaging sensory feedback for the Visually Impaired in Zimbabwean Architecture
2016
Shungu High School // Kwekwe, Zimbabwe | Loreto High School // Gweru, Zimbabwe
Advanced Level Certificate | Ordinary Level Certificate 14/15 Points (Maths, Physics & Chemistry) | 8A’s 1B 2Cs (11 Subjects)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Feb 2023Sept 2024
Feb 2024Sept 2024
Aug 2022Jan 2023
Aug 2022Jan 2023
Jan 2021Sept 2021
Jun 2021Mar 2022
Nov 2020Dec 2020
Utara Design Group
Architectural Consultant
Worked as an architectural consultant, providing architectural and innovative structural solutions to a variety of projects. Key project turnkey being a resort and recreational hub currently in development in Vumba, Zimbabwe.
School of Explorative Architecture, Cape Town
Guest Reviewer
Invited to review students work at the tertiary institution, providing insights and solutions to problems being tackled by students through architectural design work.
ONYX Architecture and Design
Part Time Architectural Designer
Visualised and Customised the design and Layouting of Private cluster housing developments as well as the design of multiple private residences.
Masiyanise TI Architects
Architectural Assistant
Conceptualised and implemented the design of multiple residential houses, clustered developments, commercial centres as well as optimising design competitions for maximum efficiency.
Architrave Design Group
Architectural Intern
Participated in a wide range of projects from design, construction phase and site supervision of houses, shopping malls, Liberation War Museum (Harare), schools, churches, convents etc
PowerAfrika Labs
Part-time Architectural Designer
Collaborated in the design and ideation of radical ideas in the creation of sustainable cities and creating selfsustaining suburbs. Lead a team of designers to comeup with design solutions to 3D Printing Housing model.
Pantic Architects
Architectural Intern
Worked on a Number of working drawings and construction drawings for medium to low density houses.
DIGITAL PROFICIENCY
Archicad
Autocad
Revit
Rhinocerous Grasshopper
Twinmotion Sketchup Lumion
D5 Render
Microsoft Office
Adobe Indesign
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe Premier Pro
OTHER ACHIEVEMENTS & COMPETITIONS
Jan
Jun
Cemetry Design Challenge, Lebanon
Collaboration with Kudzaishe Makweta
Aggregation Centre Competition, Zimbabwe
Top 5, Shortlisted
Eurasian Challenge, Lebanon
Theme: Healing Architecture Reimagined
Community Justice Centre, Canada Solo
Poldra Public Sculpture, Portugal Solo
Reimagining the Experience of Public Transportation in a Post-pandemic Metropolis
Archiol Sunlight Competition
Top 20 Shortlisted
PERSONAL INTRESTS
Reading education and creativity books
Philosophy and Life meaning
Origins of Creativity
Bisociation as a Creative tool
Travelling and making productive companionships.
Learning new skills.
Exclusive and Specific design For African context
Ideality of time and how we can harness it
Every design starts with a sketch
Every design!
Evidence Phiri
Quote from SEA Lecture 2024 | Cape Town
Farmhouse M
Vumba Mountains, Zimbabwe
Facade Facelift
Sandton Harare, Zimbabwe
SlowGrad Mall
Mt Hampden Harare, Zimbabwe
Private Residence M Renovation
Sandton Park Harare, Zimbabwe
Vhakacha Airport Lounge
Robert Mugabe Int Airport, Zimbabwe
Cemetry & Chapel
Lebanon
Spatial Absentialities Museum
Harare, Zimbabwe
Private Residence N
Sandton Park, Harare, Zimbabwe
Victoria Falls Culinary School
Victoria, Zimbabwe
Private Cottage Harare, Zimbabwe
Portfolio review 2024 | University of Cape Town
Mt Hampden, Harare, Zimbabwe
06 Cemetry & Chapel Design
The task of the project was to come up with new, creative, interesting and innovative environmentaly friendly ideas and technologies for the design of a cemetery that would be located at the south east part of the town of Enfeh, Lebanon. The Scheme was to strike a balance of practical ideas and a creative design in sustainable, unique ways while keeping in light with the landscape and the sensitivity of the project, most importantly respecting the Greek orthodox church values which was responsible for running the intended built works.
The Chapel, as the final depature point for the Departed, provides a space and environment, baptised in Light, that comforts the mourners while giving them Hope For Life, Hope for a better day. With clean, plain and flowing lines, the interior design and material choice reduces the visual strain on the believers, giving reverence and respect to the delicacy of the mourner after the loss of a beloved. A strip of light suspends the inner shell in air eccentuating the lightness of the interior space, providing a portal to the outside, visually bringing in the calmnss of water and consequently embracing and eases the mourning process thus Spatial Embrasure
One leaf embracing and Welcoming Belivers into the Intimate space
Strip of light Bulged to capture Prime Light
Strip of light to cut through the building
Outer shell vectored towards the East
Outer shell to fuly embrace the delicate inner shell
Chapel Mass to house Mourners
07 Spatial Absentialities Museum
Harare, Zimbabwe
Master of Architecture (Professional) Project
Second Best project in Masters Class 2024
The project is an exploration of “spatial absentialities”, a concept I devised, that arises from the fusion of absence and potentialities as primary forces shaping architectural form and experience. Set on an abandoned site in Harare, Zimbabwe, initially intended for the Museum of African Liberation, the project challenges traditional historic commemoration. Instead of presenting a concrete narrative, the Centre of Spatial Absentialities invites visitors to engage with the unrealized possibilities of the past and the latent potentials of the future. Here, “absentiality” becomes the driving concept, conceptualized through a series of spatial experiments that frame the continuum of time as a dynamic landscape of possibility. The museum centre explores voids In architectural elements, forms, and spatial expectations, layering both designed and absent elements as agents that offer opportunities for contemplative spatial experiences. The project therefore highlights the transformative architectural potential that emerges from an engagement with these absences as spaces of opportunity while offering new perspectives for the people of Zimbabwe
Ground Floor
First Floor
Second Floor
Victoria Falls Cullinary School
Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe 2023
The task of the project was to design, on a 12 Hectar site, in Victoria falls, a tourism based city, a hotel and catering school together with multifunctional halls and lodges. The design requirements were extensive with hostels accomodating 200 students, 50 individualised lodge units, event space for weddings and outdoor events, school classroom and supporting educational spaces
MasterPlan
Lectures and Workshops Writing Articles
Upcoming Events
(Still in writing)
Through Writing and podcasts, the lines of thought are concretised into mediums 3rd parties can interact with. Thus, writing and expressing ideas of the structure of the world form an important part of my development in the realm of thinking and ideation.
• Guest Lecture at African Leadership Academy in Johannesburg (2nd Quarter of 2025)
• Guest Lecture at Malawi University of Business and Applied Sciences, Blantyre, Malawi (2nd Quarter of 2025)
• Guest Lecture at National University of Science and Technology, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe(1st Quarter of 2025)
Extremism: The Death of Black Originality
Phiri Evidence
M.Arch (Prof) UCT (Cum Laude) BAS (Hons)
Tel. +263782881199
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