Design.Develop.Build South Africa
Friday, Nov 21, 20142:27 PM — Tuesday, Dec 16, 20142:27 PMEDT
| 245 4th St. NW, Stubbins Gallery, College of Architecture Atlanta, GA
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Exhibition Opening: Design.Develop.Build. South Africa Stubbins Gallery, School of Architecture, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA Georgia Institute of Technology’s School of Architecture showcases global design build efforts. The School of Architecture at Georgia Institute of Technology is proud to announce the opening of an exhibition titled, “Design.Develop.Build. South Africa,” which showcases how architecture students practiced sustainability and innovative design solutions at a global level to improve people’s lives. The exhibition includes full-scale mock-ups, construction drawings and photography, as well as, a short film documenting the experience. The Guga S'Thebe children's theater is a design build project by multiple international universities working with the local community and local architect Carin Smuts, which creates a cultural "village" through interior and exterior performance spaces. By combining recycled/re-used materials with earth constructions, this project creates affordable and transferable building prototypes, which can be reconstructed easily by inexperienced and shortly trained laborers and adapted to other building typologies. The goal of the project is two-fold – to enhance architecture education through hands-on design-build experience and to teach the importance of sustainability and global social responsibility. The students implemented the designs they developed with the local community skilled craftsmen, and practitioners. Participating universities include: Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, GA), Peter Behrens School of Architecture (PBSA) Düsseldorf and RWTH Aachen University. Located in the Langa Township outside of Cape Town, the project provides a place for local children and adolescents to discover the power of the arts through dance, music, and performance. With over 300,000 visitors annually, the Guga S’Thebe gladly welcomes this new 6,500 square foot facility to support their mission to teach and transform local youth and adolescents through the cultural arts. The project includes a multi-functional room for dance and music, areas for rehearsals, balconies, recording studio, a combination of small individual rooms for learning in small groups, a large multi-functional room, exterior stage, and a soup kitchen. The architecture promotes an awareness of sustainable solutions to low cost building construction by combining re-used or recycled post consumer industrialized waste materials with traditional earth construction methods. Students practiced a sustainable handling of material, expanding their own knowledge base of material re-use and construction assembly into the community as they guided locals in learning these adapted methods of assembly. Students returned from this experience with a new global awareness of the power of architecture to inspire and improve the human spirit through a sustainable approach. To learn more about the project and ways to contribute, please contact Assistant Professor Daniel Baerlecken at [email protected]. Applications are welcome from all students interested in practicing design build in South Africa. For more information visit: www.ddb-sa.com
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