Conceptual designs and ideas are projects that represent the visions and dreams of clients but have yet to manifest into a physical building. A conceptual design considers the site, its orientation, restrictions and possibilities; the building requirements, the visions ideas and themes of the clients and architect. These are presented through a series of sketches or can go into considerable depth and include design illustrations, indicative plans, sections and elevations and digital and or physical models.
Conceptual
Our Lady of the Cedars – Woodmead
This design concept for the proposed renovation to the existing Our Lady of the Cedars Maronite Catholic Church in Woodmead, Johannesburg focused on the removal of the existing “Luxalon” ceiling with flourescent downlighters, which created a commercial feeling, and replacing it with a more warm
Cedar Park Church, Country Club and Retirement Village
The design brief and concept for this urban proposal in 1990, was to create a comfortable village centered around a church to house 380 people with a neighbouring multi-functional hall. The village incorporates lots of landscaping and many trees, and includes a retirement village, club
Theatre Restaurant – Woodmead
This concept for the conversion of an existing hall into a Mediterranean themed theatre restaurant consisted of an entrance foyer with adjoining bar and hubbly lounge, a stage, dance floor and two tiers of dinner table seating on either side. The walls of the restaurant
14 Ashley Road -Bryanston
The client’s brief was to design a large Georgian classical style home. The house with a floor area of 1486m2 is a modern Georgian flat roof concept with a combination of traditional arches and Doric order columns. The building is symmetrical with an equal arrangement
1 Ashley Road, Bryanston
Concept for a modern cluster home of 380m2 with crisp sharp lines and sustainable technologies including a roof garden and green walls.
Music Hill, Tallin, Estonia
A Tallinn Biennalle vision competition entitled “New Habits New Beauties” which required an urban design idea to reinvent a space in Kopli, Kalamaja, Estonia, Eastern Europe, and, in doing so, redefining the concept of beauty. Music Hill, an entry By Human Voice Architects in Association