THE WATERSHED
THE WATERSHED V & A Waterfront
DEVELOPER / CLIENT V & A Waterfront
ARCHITECT Wolff Architects
QUANTITY SURVEYOR Pentad Quantity Surveyors
STRUCTURAL ENGINEER LH Consulting Engineers
ELECTRICAL ENGINEER GIBB
MECHANICAL ENGINEER Basil Nair & Associates WSP in Africa
FIRE CONSULTANT SolutionStation
ACOUSTIC CONSULTANT Mackenzie Hoy
ENVIRONMENTAL CONSULTANT Greenbuild Consultants
ELEVATOR CONSULTANT Solutions for Elevating
WIND CONSULTANT Adam Goliger
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT Julian Raxworthy
LAND SURVEYOR David Hellig & Abrahamse
WORKSHOP 17 : INTERIOR ARCHITECT Metropolis Design
MAIN CONTRACTOR WBHO Construction
PHOTOGRAPHY Marc Hoberman
The V & A Waterfront ’ s newest mixed-use development , the Watershed , has been open to the public since October 2014 . The building was historically an electrical warehouse and , in more recent years , was divided up into the Blue Shed craft market on the one side and the Maritime Museum on the other . The Maritime Museum then moved and the space was sitting vacant .
DEVELOPER ’ S REPORT The V & A Waterfront was looking to increase the footfall in a traditionally scarce area of the precinct and increasing trading density for the market traders . The V & A approached architect , Heinrich Wolff , to look at the space . Wolff proposed not only using the vacant space , but knocking through to the Blue Shed and re-envisaging the space completely . The V & A supported this idea and the Watershed concept was born .
South African cities are becoming increasingly segregated and compartmentalised . The Watershed is a contribution to better city-making . The design concept stemmed from the intention to create a sustainable urban condition that supports a market economy . This is done by the creation of a street through the workshop , thereby linking the aquarium to the rest of the V & A Waterfront . This urban gesture offers substantial benefit to the surrounding context , creating opportunities for other urban role players to benefit from . The buildings inside the shed address the pedestrian
The ground floor of the building is now home to some 150 small business owners selling a multitude of arts and crafts
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