Urban Design

• Project Description: : This project started as a retail project but evolved into a shopping centre.
• Client: Açores Empreendimentos Imobiliarios, SA
• Date:2006-2009
• Position: Principal Architect
• Responsibilities: Urban planning and Project Architect: I have been involved from initial schemes right through to working drawings and preparation of tender documents.

• Project Description:  4000m2 total divided into 11 small warehouses
• Client: éSanto, Property Investments
• Date:
• Position: Project Architect
• Responsibilities: Design drawings and documentation for council approval, then later on working drawings, site supervision.

My final thesis was about Urban housing and revitalization, in the context of a post apartheid Johannesburg. On a broader level it looked at the Urban redevelopment policies, access to housing for the new South African context and the reality facing the new ANC government. On another level I tried to look at the possibilities of mixed use residential buildings in the city, with all the problems and benefits of urban dwelling. The project proposed small service industry warehouses and workshops with a school above and community center above, with housing above the school.

Description: An urban renewal project that consolidated four city blocks with the new head offices for the Absa Banking Group, incorporating two existing bank buildings.

Project architects TC Design

Project: Public Seating, benches Bollards, Rubbish Bins and public sculpture.

DJ 46 ZhuJiang Industrial Park

Project Description:  Our team was invited to step into an urban design program and design bits and pieces. The design here was more at an urban design level, setting the development parameters to achieve a evenly high density development.

DJ 45 Ningbo New City Center

Project Description:  Ningbo city required a new city development but the old city was surrounded by fairly complex transport infrastructures making it difficult to extend in this direction. The key to the design was seen to be a bridge building over an 8 lane highway that would link the new development to the old city center.

DJ 43 Nanjing  Shopping

This complex urban regeneration is motivated by the new metro line which not only has altered the urban parameters that govern development, but has also sky-rocketed the value of the land due to the high density development opportunity. This TOD mixed use development had a very clear vision from the government while the developer had normal market orientated concept which complicated the initiation of the project. Once all parties were on the same page in terms of what to do, we then were able to get into the real complexities of the design.

DJ 48 Wuhu Shopping, Anwhei Province