HPI D-SCHOOL AFRIKA
HPI d-school Afrika University of Cape Town
PROJECT MANAGER & PRINCIPAL AGENT Fluid Projects
ARCHITECT KMH Architects
QUANTITY SURVEYOR Rider Levett Bucknall
CIVIL & STRUCTURAL ENGINEER Welby Solomon Consulting Engineers
ELECTRICAL ENGINEER Ifindo Electrical Engineers
MECHANICAL & WET SERVICE ENGINEER WSP Group Africa
FIRE ENGINEER De Villiers & Moore
TRANSPORT CONSULTANT ITS Global
GREEN BUILDING CONSULTANT PJC and Partners
ACOUSTIC ENGINEER SRL South Africa
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT Tarna Klitzner Landscape Architect
HEALTH & SAFETY CONSULTANT Safetycon
INTERIOR DESIGN Design Lab
MAIN CONTRACTOR H & I Civil and Building
PHOTOGRAPHY Paris Brummer ( Pages 20 - 29 ) Supplied by LEAF ( Pages 30 - 31 )
The Hasso Plattner d-school Afrika , at the University of Cape Town ( UCT ), is the third Design Thinking institute in the world . It joins the well-established Institutes at Stanford University and at Potsdam University and is the only school in Africa dedicated to Design Thinking training .
The d-school offers programmes in design thinking to undergraduates , post graduate students and organisations . The key objective is to promote , train and capacitate individuals and organisations in the practice and mindset of design thinking , as an enabler of innovation and new outcomes that can meet the needs of users in complex socio-political and economic contexts .
Since its inception in 2015 , the d-school has been temporarily located at the UCT Graduate School of Business V & A Waterfront Campus . The Plattner Foundation recognised the need for the school to expand and committed to fund a new , dedicated d-school facility , on the Middle Campus precinct of UCT .
The aspirations for the new building were progressive and visionary . The new d-school was to become a destination , to be synonymous with teaching our future generation the mindset and practice of innovation , design-led and creative thinking . Aligned to this vision was the requirement for the building to achieve a GBCSA 6 Star Green Star Public & Education Building certification .
The small site on which the d-school is built is triangular , with the hypotenuse of the triangle radiused , shaped by an existing road lined with an avenue of beautiful Cork Oaks
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