TSHWANE, SOUTH AFRICA
METAL MESH FOR ARCHITECTURE + DESIGN
STATSSA HEAD OFFICE
TSHWANE, SOUTH AFRICA
The architecture of the new StatsSA Head Office in Tshwane tells a symbolic African story of communication and numeracy throughout history. This symbolism is reflected in the façade. A historic form of communication, the drum, finds form in an outward reaching elliptical building on the solid base of the auditorium below. The highly glazed first and second floors speak clearly of the transparency and openness of the Department and its work. The glazed drum is wrapped with a balcony that both enables wonderful views and shades the windows, and the prominent GKD mesh façade, which incorporates an art installation within the metal strands, providing further glare management.
The aesthetic of the Drum mesh façade is taken through into the Main Building’ s two northernmost wings on either side of the entrance, embracing the entire built form, and expressing the integration of all the Department’ s staff and functions in one coherent and unified campus.
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