23 – 26 OCTOBER 2018
WINNER OF PPC IMAGINARIUM AWARD
FOR ARCHITECTURE
At a dedicated event held at the 2018 Architecture ZA (AZA)
Conference in Pretoria, 22-year-old student Roark Robinson was
crowned the winner of this year’s PPC Imaginarium Award for
Architecture and received a R50,000 cash prize. The PPC Imaginarium
Award for Architecture has replaced the Des Baker Award for
outstanding student design, making Robinson – who hails from the
University of Cape Town – amongst the top architecture students
in Southern Africa. Robinson’s winning project envisages a ‘public,
connective architecture’ for a District Six of the future.
Architecture schools across Southern Africa were invited to submit
works by final-year students for consideration. All 21 finalists’ projects
were on exhibition as part of the AZA programme. In keeping with
the AZA’s theme of resilience and memory, entrants were asked to
locate a ‘hole’ in urban infrastructure caused by rapid growth and
change, and to contribute to spatial transformation by addressing
connections between the community’s memory and resilience.
The judges chose Robinson’s proposed Artisan Centre for District
Six in Cape Town as the overall winner. According to Roark: “District
Six stands vacant and scarred as one of the greatest exhibitions
of Apartheid era planning reinforcement. As one of the pioneering
redevelopments of the area, the building aims to set a precedent
for future developments, encouraging acts of public, connective
architecture and creating the first framed public space in the area.”
www.ppcimaginarium.co.za
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