26’10 is an award winning practice based in Johannesburg, South Africa formed by Anne Graupner and Thorsten Deckler in 2004. The practice brings together essential conceptual design skills as well as technical expertise needed in addressing small, medium and large-scale architectural and urban design projects.
Our projects are located in diverse geographical as well as social and economical scenarios. We are equally ‘at home’ in the inner-city, the suburb, informal settlements and the open landscape. By incorporating critical inquiry and research into the design process each site, client and budget is carefully considered. Constraints are thus treated as design generators. The diverse skills within the practice ensure that architectural and urban design projects can be conceived at a large and small scale simultaneously and this has numerous benefits for clients, especially in the housing sector, where the integrated design and considered repetition of prototypes can impact positively on the costs as well as on the quality and sustainability of human settlements.
Clients benefit from an intersection of skills acquired in exhibition, interior, furniture and graphic design. In addition 26’10 offers clients an expert in house model making service.
Specific expertise and experience acquired to date includes:
STRATEGIC & URBAN DESIGN
- Spatial development frameworks
- Urban renewal
- Greenfields
- Settlement guidelines
SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTALLY SUSTAINABLE DESIGN
- Urban layouts addressing community surveillance through siting of buildings, layout of streets and functional zoning
- Prototype housing designs incorporating growth and flexible use over time
- Passive climatic design
- Incorporation of solar voltaic and heating systems
- Incorporation rain water harvesting and water recycling
HOUSING
- Subsidized housing (design of prototypes, urban layouts and roll-out)
- Alternative prototypes incorporating growth and flexible use
- Lower-bonded and bonded housing prototypes for the gap-market
- Middle income prototypes
- One-off
- Alterations and additions
RESEARCH
- Precedent & best practice studies
- Housing and informal city (www.housinginformalcity.co.za)
COMMUNITY
- Liaison and event
- Civic, infrastructure and community building upgrades
EDUCATIONAL
- Tertiary – space planning and refurbishments, lecture spaces, new faculty building (competition)
- School – primary, secondary, vocational, residence
- Pre-school – furniture design
COMMERCIAL
- Retail – high-end interior design and fit-outs
- Office space – interior refurbishments, space planning and furniture layouts and orders
- New build – concept proposals to inform feasibility studies
REFURBISHMENTS
- Inner city building conversions
- Interior refurbishments
INTERIOR
- Gallery and exhibition
- Corporate
- Educational (tertiary)
- Retail
FURNITURE
- Built-in furniture design and detailing
EXHIBITION
- Developing and curating content
- Exhibition design – concept and detail
- Project management – implementation (local & international)
GRAPHIC
- Collages, rendered plans, graphic layout of reports and presentation panels
- Marketing material
ART
- Public art management & implementation
- Public art concept and realization
- Public art frameworks
MODELLING
- We have a fully equipped workshop to produce scale models ranging form concept to presentation
- Digital models
