Design The brief was set to optimise and consolidate the limited available erven in the industrial park , which created its own unique design challenges . For example , it had a large stormwater servitude running down along one boundary of the site , thereby reducing the available footprint for construction . The team incorporated this servitude as part of the parking overflow areas and truck movement to allow the tenant to maximise the utilisation on site .
Another test was to try and utilise the one available erf that was stuck in-between two existing occupied erven . This became the access node into the site and placing the guardhouse and truck stacking lanes within this space , access into and from the site was not only simplified and travel time shortened but also unfolded more usable footprint for the actual warehouse .
The architectural design team , lead by project architect Niel Marx , set out to develop the next step in the evolution of industrial design and continuing from their award-winning Whitey Basson Distribution Park design . The team decided to move the goal posts once again and move away from the increasingly popular curved roof design and opted for more striking straight lines , only utilising curves on key
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