Design Brief

IWC 1243Jessica Livia Darmali

“The goal of this competition for architecture students and young architects, entitled International Wildlife Center (IWC) in Africa, is to create a visitor centre and accommodation for tourists and volun-teers, whose main objective is to collect funds for animal protection.

The objective of the IWC will be to work to conserve and restore autochthonous fauna and their habitat by providing action-oriented education, raising public awareness, promoting strategic asso-ciations and a responsible rehabilitation of the fauna, at the same time offering accommodation and services to welcome tourists from all around the world who want to contribute to the protection of this reserve.

The idea is to create a space that has a strong attraction to a public of all ages, a space visited by tour-ists who love wildlife, as well as professionals and volunteers who desire to help with the conserva-tion of the fauna of this ecosystem.”

-Arquideas

Concept Kruger National Park, located in South Africa, is among the largest national park in the world. The ecosystem is sa-vannah grassland, a type of ecosystem which is comprised of tall grass occu-pying the surface with a widely scat-tered trees. As it is not highly dense with trees, one can view the scenery from one point to the other end with nothing obscuring it.

This project highly focus on this aspect and the main aim is to create an archi-tecture that integrates with the nature. Here, I try to create a building with a humble design that is able to blend in with the surrounding in the most nat-ural way.

The initial concept of this project is to create a rock like building, with its irregular shape to create a con-sistent shaped spaces.

The program of uses in the proposed project is a small scale accomodation place for tourists with an ad-ditional small exibition space in hope to attract visitors and bring them closer to the wildlife in Kruger Na-tional Park.

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Exhibition areaLobbyToiletGathering areaDining areaRoomsStairs & ElevatorsObservation deck

img 001. Kruger National Park(photo source: Arquideas)

img 003. Fauna in IWC(photo source: Arquideas)

img 004. Flora in IWC(photo source: google)

img 002. Kruger National Park(photo source: Arquideas)

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Tourists are provided with:

-17 rooms with the size of 3x5 metres-a dining area with the size of 5x9 metres-a gathering/living area with the size of 6x10 metres-observation deck with the size of 12x24 metres at the rooftop-exhibition area with the size of 6x10 metres

Material to be used in order to match with the surroundings:

-Stone & concrete cladding for the walls-Timber covering for the ceiling, columns, tiles