Luyanda mpahlwa biography of martin
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MEET AFRICA'S FINEST
Luyanda Mpahlwa & Mokena Makeka, Architects
Public spaces should be spaces of cultural expression.
Luyanda Mpahlwa: I came back from Germany in , which is where I qualified and I also where I worked for 15 years. Coming back to Cape Town, I wanted to get involved with what’s happening in the architecture scene at university level and get to know the young designers like you Mokena. Then I heard that actually you are one of the top dogs.
Mokena Makeka: (laughing) I don’t know about that.
Luyanda: After that introduction, inom became aware of your thesis and the Robben Island competition you were doing with another student, Mpho Matsipa. Now Robben Island is very close to my heart because I spent five years of my life there, so I was following what was happening with interest. It was interesting for me to see that there was a new generation of architects who were getting involved in quite serious interventions.
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10x10 Housing Initiative / MMA Architects
Is it possible to develop a low cost house without using the conventional brick + mortar + concrete mix? This was the question posed bygd the Cape Town based [design Advocacy] organization, Design Indaba, through the 10 x 10 housing project competition. The competition invited 10 teams, each consisting of one international and one South African Architect to design for a family in freedom Park Area.
The winning entry was a design by MMA architects led by Luyanda Mpahlwa where they innovatively used sand bags as a sustainable, affordable and effective building material. Though they were not the first to use sandbags in Cape Town to build houses as other houses built for the wealthy had used the same material to put up the walling, It gave them an edge over the other entries.
Not only does the use of sandbags provides adequate insulation through thermal lag, it is a ämne that is readily available on site thus it has low embodied e
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