[ About ]
Kevin Goncalves
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Parts
- A [ Architect ]
- B [ Lecturer ] Wits School of Architecture / 3rd year design studio
- C [ Urban designer ]
Record
- 01 Berlage Centre · TU Delft
- 02 Venice Biennale 2016
- 03 Shenzhen Biennale 2015
- 04 Jonge Architecten Prijs 2015 · Runner-up
I am an architect, lecturer and urban designer. I read my post professional masters at the Berlage Centre for Advanced Studies in Architecture and Urban Design at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands.
I exhibited at the 15th Venice Architecture Biennale in 2016 and at the Bi-City Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism in Shenzhen in 2015. I am the runner-up to the Dutch Young Architect Prize ('Jonge Architecten Prijs 2015').
I currently lecture at my alma mater — the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of the Witwatersrand where, among many other responsibilities, I lead the third year design studio — and I run a design practice specialising in architectural and urban design work, website design (UX and graphics) and branding and co-ordinating special events. It complements the experience I have gained as a professional architect who's worked in South Africa, the Netherlands, Nigeria and Norway.
FIG_02[ Assembly ]
[ Exploded · after the architect's own sheet ]
A real renovation, taken apart the way its architect drew it: House in Helderkruin, hung in five layers between the site and the weather. It rests closed until you reach it.
Figure 02: an exploded isometric drawing of House in Helderkruin, redrawn after Kevin's own exploded axonometric. Five layers separate vertically along dashed drop guides: the site boundary polygon; the building shell with its new parapet and glazed band; the existing roof structure exposed alongside new I-beams; insulation between the rafters and over the skillion; and the roofs — the existing tiled roof and the new skillion with its box gutter.
[ Note ] The exploded state is the document — it is what print and reduced-motion readers simply get. The closing is the toy: under a pointer the house opens beneath the hand and settles shut behind it; on touch it opens as it enters the view. Proportions are read off the architect's sheet by eye; nothing here carries a dimension, because none was taken.
[ Source ] After K. Goncalves, exploded axonometric, House in Helderkruin House in Helderkruin — the original is onmdash; the original is on Sheet 04 of this set.
Each project is plotted on a logarithmic scale of physical extent, running from 0.1 metres to 10 kilometres. The list below runs from smallest to largest and gives each project's discipline and approximate extent. One project, designBouts, is a website and has no physical extent, so it is listed separately at the end.
- Fashion approx. 0.5 m 241 tshirt
- Furniture approx. 1 m U4me
- Arch approx. 6 m Justin the Jeweller's Magic Box
- Arch approx. 6 m volkstuinhuisje
- Arch approx. 12 m the invisible house
- Arch approx. 15 m suburban house
- Arch approx. 18 m House in Parkwood
- Arch approx. 20 m House in Forest Town
- Arch approx. 22 m House in Helderkruin
- Arch approx. 90 m Beauty's Beast
- Arch approx. 120 m Neo Bedlam
- Event approx. 200 m let's play rosettenville
- Event approx. 250 m o-week
- Art approx. 800 m joe slovo drive gauntlet
- Arch approx. 1.2 km Fantastic Devland
- UD approx. 4 km new nostalgia
A website has no physical extent. Rather than invent one to keep the row tidy, it sits off the axis.
Garment to district · ×8 000 · four orders of magnitude From a printed t-shirt at half a metre to a Rotterdam district four kilometres across is a factor of 8 000 — 3.9 orders of magnitude, so call it four. The axis is drawn over 5 decades and the work reaches into all 5 of them. The shaded band is the practice's centre of gravity: 7 projects between 6 m and 22 m, every one of them architecture, inside 11% of the axis. Extents are the approximate longest dimension of each project, read off its own drawings and photographs; they are estimates, not survey.