Sanctoreum

Building safe habitats for South African miners

Rustenburg, South Africa

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Miguel

Ridges

This design retains the functioning of the current informal settlement by providing only a framework for the same neighbourhood which to inhabit under much safer conditions. This framework prioritizes the respiratory health of the occupants, with each indoor space acting as an air filter to rid the interior condition of airborne particles from the mine.

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Benny

Oasis Ikemeleng

An ubuntu oasis in the midst of exploitation and hazard.

Lesego

Living Hallow: Interwoven Futures

The project intertwines the process of developing sustainable livelihoods within healthy environments that are structured for adaptability and resilience. The development model utilizes fibrous plants as a restorative tool for constructive extraction.

Oliver

Ground Up

In a time of globalization, urbanisation and mass urban migration ‘Ground UP’ interrogates design opportunities surrounding housing the community of Ikemeleng. This project presents a different strategy, by utilizing varying systems to create incremental housing scenarios for the home to be productive space economically, socially and environmentally.

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