Johannesburg’s bungalow typology paired colonial speculation with a separatist desire of domination. Today, their skeletons merge with an organically developing intelligence that is radically divergent, and non-architect-based. Mutating composites (bungalow compounds) successfully respond to their residents’ life forms as inscriptions into material worlds, detecting embedded knowledges as local, re-systemised ingenuity.
Participants
KIRSTEN DÖRMANN AND SARAH DE VILLIERS
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA; NORWICH, UK
Kirsten Dörmann, Herford, Germany, 1965. Lives and works in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Sarah de Villiers, Johannesburg, South Africa, 1990. Lives and works in Norwich, UK.
Authorial Collaborators
Sarah de Villiers, spacekiosk (graphic content development)
Technical Collaborators
Thelma Ndebele, Jiaxin Gong
Thanks
Paul Jenkins; Funeka Mpofu; Donald Mpofu; ARPL4000A Advanced Architecture Design Students 2018–23, School of Architecture & Planning, University of the Witwatersrand: Philippe de Laroche, Christine Havinga, Pierre Marais, Mohammed Hashim Tarmahomed, Joshil Naran, Ariella Gimpel, Ruvimbo Nyamupanedengu, Tammy Ohlson de Fine, Kerry Clifford; Sanza Sandile; Jennifer Van den Bussche, Sticky Situations; Vedhant Maharaj, Rebel Base Collective; Solam Mkhabela
Supporters
Nnamdi Elleh, School of Architecture & Planning, University of the Witwatersrand
