Abstract:
The study contemplates the idea that, as modern
man lives and thrives on Earth, we cannot look
with anticipation into the future alone, but we
have to integrate our every action with the past.
Maintaining a delicate balance between past and
future is the major struggle and responsibility for
mankind. This is also the case for architecture, for
it is one of the elemental ties to our past and to
our future, because the buildings are the result of
history. It is these connections between past and
future, building and user, building and site, user
and the natural site, which shape the spaces we
dwell in.
The intention of the study is to create
architecture which promotes harmony within
these connections between human habitation
(future) and the natural world (past), through
design approaches so sympathetic and well
integrated with its site that buildings,
furnishings, and the natural surroundings
become part of a unified, interrelated
composition.
The selected project is a production facility with a
fly factory and integrated urban insectary,
endangered insect containment research facility,
harvesting a natural ecosystem on the old
Rosema & Klaver Waterkloof Quarry site in
Monument Park, South Africa.
