These are the plaques that have the names of the people who died during apartheid. I saw the testing of all the different mediums and fonts.

Remember Freedom Park, Pretoria?

This is the wall of building that sits underneath the hill. It is part of the hill.

This is that area where we had to take our shoes off and smoke came up out of that circle. Every stone represented a chief of tribe of a dignitry. And the view was amazing.

These huge spires are made of aluminium and cost a hefty sum. There are over 100 of them and they have small red lights on the top of every pole so you can see them from around Pretoria, sorry Tswane, at night and from a plane.

The Tower of Light

The Tower of Light is a tall, brilliant white concrete structure that can be seen from kilometers away. The intended reason for the structure was so that people can find there way when lost. West campus, where the building stands, was originally the show grounds for the Rand Easter Festival, or Milner Park Argricultural Show, as it was known in the 1930's.

Cable car rides left from the first floor of the building and headed north overlooking the showgrounds and then returned to the tower. 6 cents a ride and 3 for children and it wasn't anywhere near Gold Reef City. Althought you never knew with the technology in the 30's.... quite risky.

Today you can visit the building which surrounds the sports arena on west campus. Renovations have been done and there is a tuck shop occupying the ground floor and the security office for Wits on the first. You can climb the tiny ladder which runs up inside the tower, taking you to the top which is approximatly 9 stories above ground level. But you'd have to get past the guards first...

Perspective

Plans

First Floor Plan
Ground Floor Plan

Site Map

Discourse Project: The Tower of Light

The Chinese Club

Some things didn't work out that well, but i managed.

The Semi-Detched

The First Model

Re-designing the Semi

This is my design, roughly done in sketch up. Kay was my neightbour and her simplified house is to the right of my plot.
The site was increadibly long compared with its width. The real challenge was to allow light into the property. This plot was north facing but my neightbours blocked a lot of the light.

Brixton

Design Project One
Part Three