PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
A CENTRE FOR INTEGRATED SEPERATION
Design Concept:
How does a centre that has a civic quality, containing recreation, educational, health as well as a youth centre for the local community, can exist while maintaining their own identity and be separated from each other, yet united in a single location?
The proposal uses the 20x40 meter football field as a catalyst, generating a green hill for viewing, and a covered timber grandstand backed by a solid brick wall. The wall serves as a buffer between the noisy recreational zone to the educational and health facilities. A covered amphitheater, organically designed to encourage social interaction and public gathering, also buffers the class rooms from the health clinic.
The clinic has two sides - a public façade for the entrance, and a back façade encloses a small garden to provide tranquility to the bedrooms. Similarly the classroom is separated to the noisy football field by the stadium wall and a quite garden, providing a space more conducive to learning.
The constant use of buffering elements enable the Football of Hope Centre to be have all the different activities separated, yet a consistent flow of public spaces integrates the entire Centre as a place for the people.
Materials:
All the materials shall be chosen from the local area. The construction will allow self sustainable means of illumination, ventilation, and rainwater storage system.
Roofing: industrial corrugated steel sheeting
Roofing structures: Eco-Beam system with local timber posts, all weather sealed as required.
Stadium Wall: concrete blocks with reinforcing and concrete infill.
General walls: Eco-beam cavity filled with sand bags, to be plastered and paint to finish.
Windows and doors: timber frames painted to finish
Floor: screeded concrete floors on foundation as required.
Budget:
The proposal is designed to be phased. The initial estimated budget is converted to be South African rand as R 600 000, 00. The sufficiency of the budget is dependent on further development with the sketch designs.
