{"id":3418,"date":"2016-05-05T11:55:34","date_gmt":"2016-05-05T11:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/urba.co.za\/?p=3418"},"modified":"2022-07-07T11:08:23","modified_gmt":"2022-07-07T11:08:23","slug":"sol-plaatje-university-building-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urba.co.za\/?p=3418","title":{"rendered":"Sol Plaatje University – Education Building"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sol Plaatje University: Kimberley South Africa<\/strong><\/h2>\n

SAIA ENDORSED NATIONAL COMPETITION – WINNER<\/strong><\/h2>\n

SAIA REGIONAL AWARD FOR ARCHITECTURE – 2019<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Education Building<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Competition project team:<\/strong> Henri Comrie, Am\u00e1lie\u00a0Comrie, Michael de Beer, Steph Potgieter (models)<\/p>\n

Design development: <\/strong>Henri Comrie, Etienne Britz<\/p>\n

Urban design framework:<\/strong> Ludwig Hansen Architects and Urban Designers<\/p>\n

Promoter:<\/strong> Department of Higher Education and Training<\/p>\n

Following the competition, each of the five shortlisted architects was allocated a parcel of land of roughly similar size on which to develop a design for construction. The other selected practices are: Designworkshop SA (Durban), Wilkinson and Associates (Pretoria), Activate (Johannesburg) and Savage and Dodd (Johannesburg). The three-dimensional building envelopes on each of the parcels were determined by Ludwig Hansen Architects and Urban Designers’ urban design framework.<\/p>\n

The allocated parcel for the Educational Teaching Building, is a elongated\/rectangular site towards the north of the new precinct. The program consists of lecture theatres, academic facilities for educational and teacher’s training, laboratories and staff offices. Click\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>to view the competition.<\/p>\n

Links<\/strong><\/p>\n

SAIA Free State Citation<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n