The Brief & site visit

21 September 2014

It started out as a chilly Sunday morning, but as we arrived at the site  immediately warmed up. There we were strolling through the streets, trying to do site analysis and experience the surrounding context; figure out how we were going to address the client's brief... and then the music started. 

[The team on site]

In stead of church bells announcing the service was about to start, you could hear voices from blocks away, their song calling for all and anybody to join.

[music station - where the magic happens]

[Karima & Pieter engaging with community members]

We hurried back and found people praying, singing and dancing inside the tent structure. Welcoming smiles, curious glances and warm embraces from the community greeted us - strangers, who as we later found out during the service, had been foretold in a prophecy to come across their path in their journey to the further establishment of their vision.    

[Youth in front of the kindergarten structure, also where Sunday school is held]

The brief for us as students and designers is as follows: 
In two groups create design proposals to house the client's vision of a new Community centre to accommodate the existing programs of kindergarten, adult literacy classes and the church. as well as allow for growth and should be able to accommodate more people during events like their Gala evenings and the True Love movement for youth development, during which the youth choir and dance group perform. 

[Ali being a true architect;
sketching away]

[George talking to the church representatives]

[Determining wants & needs]