Home is our first real mistake. It is the one error that changes everything, the one lesson you could let destroy you. It is from this moment that we begin to build our home in the world. It is the place that we furnish with smell, taste, a talisman, a name. -1
“Disneyland is presented as imaginary in order to make us believe that the real (i.e the world outside Disneyland) is real., whereas in fact all of Los Angeles and the America surrounding it are no longer real, but of the order of hyperreal and of simulation” -2
Home is our first real mistake. It is the one error that changes everything, the one lesson you could let destroy you. It is from this moment that we begin to build our home in the world. It is the place that we furnish with smell, taste, a talisman, a name. -1
“Disneyland is presented as imaginary in order to make us believe that the real (i.e the world outside Disneyland) is real., whereas in fact all of Los Angeles and the America surrounding it are no longer real, but of the order of hyperreal and of simulation” -2
Siwelile Mathenjwa
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Siwelile Mathenjwa
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Siwelile Mathenjwa
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Siwelile Mathenjwa
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Siwelile Mathenjwa
Cairo’s Safe Sanctuary
Mpho Molaoa
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The project centre’s a women’s shelter (as its various forms) within Cairo in Talaat Harb Street. The site noted as notorious large groups of men having attacked several women in the street through various international media reports. This project acts as a response to that event by prototyping (or speculating/proposing) the architectural realm of a safe sanctuary and the archetypes that govern the thresholds of access (visual and physical) and supervision into, within and through this shelter. Additionally, the project proposes the prototype of the women’s shelter to empower women through acts of spatially revealing and concealing performed by the archetypes of the door, window and façade.
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Talaat Harb Street, Cairo
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Conceal, Reveal, Illusion, Respond, Facade, Threat, Harassment, Safe Territory, Body, Skin