a thinker a designer
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design philosophy
Humanism and the environment are intertwined entities. The interplay between sustainable, contextual design and the human experience is the conversation which drives the projects I embark upon. I believe that there is an ethical obligation to design sustainably, we cannot ignore the impact humans have had on our planet. Conversely the impact that the environment has on humans cannot go unacknowledged. Nature is healing. Water and green spaces have positive physical and psychological impacts on people, thus making designing with nature a humanist approach to architecture - an endeavor I strive to pursue
featured projects
Landscapes of Memory
2022
3rd Year Undergraduate Project 3
Observatory, Cape Town
The task was to design a “decoloinal” museum which tackles the significant yet unexpressed histories told by the landscape as “Cape Town’s ‘cultural landscape’ is a complex layering of centuries of interaction between people and their natural environment” .
Elands Bay Climate Shelter
2021
2nd Year Undergradutae Stuido Project
Baboon Point, Elands Bay, South Africa
This project invited students to understand how architecture can mediate between the embodied subject and the objective environment by creating an intermediate lived environment, which modifies spaces, landforms, and climate to make a collective human centred form. The end building design becomes a place to bring together the particularities of the topography, and its bodily experience.
