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Chrysalis

University Project - BAS 3rd Year
April 2015
Location:
Tokai, Cape Town, South Africa

Chrysalis is a rehabilitation center that equips people with the necessary skills, qualifications and attitudes to move forward in life after troubled backgrounds. Coincidentally we were given this project after the mountain fires had burnt down part of the forest above Chrysalis ground. Hence, the site we were given was mostly in ashes. We found, therein, the symbolism of turning “ashes into beauty” which applies both to the way the architecture brings new life to its landscape, and the way in which it contribute to the development of the people using the space

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