This brief was heavily based on research and implementation of renewable methods of  construction, as well as creating an awareness of the problem we as humanity face regarding the  amount of plastic waste floating around in the Pacific Ocean.

This brief required us to do a rework project of a given building in an industrial part of Johannesburg. The programme of the interior of the building was an open sheet, allowing us to design and conceptualize surrounding the research done in the initial part of the brief. We had to research some methods of recycling methods that could help eleviate the problem of excess plastic in the oceans specifically, and how that technology could be used in the built environment.

For the design that I came up with, thanks to the help and thought directors given to me from the research done on how to convey these ideas best. With the initial approach of the building, the user would be greeted with a glass façade replicating
the envelope of the building. Within this space, there
would be an exhibit of what could be made from recycled plastics. Through the doors leading into the main building, the user would be greeted with an interactive area, showcasing the work being done, which would then spill over into the mechanics
area, showing the methods currently used to recycle plastics. 

 

On the outside, a coffee shop with a few seats inside and outside, with a bathroom on the outside of the building. On the first floor, the user could interact with the companies currently busy cleaning up the oceans and have a close-up feeling of how things really are, without the sugar-coating of general media.