Curriculum Vitae

  • Director of Roro Design Consultancy, partnering with teams around the world to bring positive change through large scale affordable housing, social infrastructure and effectual public insertions.

  • Board member and architect for Freehaven Community Innitiative, a Zambian NGO that focusses on the next generation by empowering and supporting the development of children and their families through schooling, feeding schemes and counselling services.

  • Project Architect

    StudioMAS is a prominent architecture firm in Cape Town which works on a wide variety of projects from residential, hospitality and apartment buildings to office buildings, residential towers and urban design projects.

    Roles : Project architect, conceptual design, client facing, visualisations, VR and submission/construction documentation.

    Projects worked on:

    • Stillbaai early man museum

    • Future found

    • Founders estate

    • Rosebank Penthouses

    • Price Drive

    • COO2

    • Sandton Platinum Residences

    • Cartrack Head Office

    • Gauteng Central

    • 17 Glen

    + more

  • Freelance architect

    MRA architects is a boutique architectural firm in Cape Town which works on residential, social and cultural projects.

    Roles : Conceptual Design, client facing discussions, modelling and visualisation.

    Projects worked on:

    • Noordhoek House

    • Beautiful Gate Social Hub

    • Common Ground Church Bergvliet

  • Contract architect

    Marine Dynamics is one of the premier marine touring companies in the Western Cape. I was brought onboard to co-ordinate the following projects over the course of my 9 month contract:

    • Marine Museum (14000sqft)

    • Existing facility council submission and property consolidation

    • House Viljoen

  • Freelance consultant

    Instinct Design is a London based architectural firm that does residential, commercial and urban projects in Europe and Africa.

  • Architectural intern

    MRA architects is a boutique architectural firm in Cape Town which works on residential, social and cultural projects.

    • Water Hub Eco Village

    • CHS Church

    • Jubilee City Church

Work experience

  • University of Cape Town

    Masters Thesis: Sustainable Development Practices for Underutilised State Land

    The thesis proposed a strategy to develop a large underutilized and fragmented part of inner city Cape Town, leveraging government ownership of well located land to provide social housing and urban facitilies to this critically underutilized part of the city.

    Urban Design, Architecture and Planning

  • University of Cape Town

    Projects worked on:

    • Bridging Infrastructure

    • First Steps ECD

  • University of Cape Town

    Selected Projects

    • Artisan Centre

    • Merchant House

    • Emergent Archaeologist Refuge

    • Axis Tidal Pool

    • Catharsis Centre

    • Tower House

    • Harbour Market

    • Secular Monastry Student Housing

    • Adjustable Tensile Structure

    • Envisaged City

    • PG Bison

  • Rondebosch Boys High School with Distinction

Education

  • National Winner

    The PPC Imaginarium is South Africa’s national undergraduate architecture competition which ajudicates graduating projects from around the country.

    The artisan centre project was awarded first place by the South African Institute of Architects at the annual national AZA conference.

  • Accepted to M.arch II programs at the Architectural Association, Yale and Columbia for the 2019 cycle.

  • Awarded the prize for the top third year design student by the Cape Institute of Architects

  • Academic merit scholarship for Univesity of Cape Town B.arch III

  • Deans List for the University of Cape Town B.arch program.

  • Merit based entrance scholarship for University of Cape Town Bachelor of Architecture Program.

  • South African Representitive at the International Junior Science Olympiad (IJSO) in 2011.

  • AVA Gallery

    Bird Street Gallery

    UJ Gallery

    Turbine Art Festival

    100% Design South Africa

  • To Build Magazine

    Architect & Specificator Magazine

    Cape Towner Newspaper

    PPC Imaginarium Q&A

  • Orienteering - Competed at the Junior World Orienteering Championships, 2013 Czech-Republic, 2015 Norway, 2016 Switzerland

    Ultimate Frisbee - Competed at the u/24 World Ultimate Frisbee Championships in London 2015 and the US open in 2023 and 2024. Multiple National Championships

    Nominated for first year athlete of the year at the University of Cape Town sports awards in 2015

Achievements

  • Revit (primary)

    Autocad

    Recap

  • Photoshop

    Indesign

    Premiere Pro

    Lightroom

  • Lumion

    Enscape

    Vray

  • Revit (primary)

    Sketchup

  • Excel

    Word

    Powerpoint

    Teams

  • Photography

    Videography

  • Virtual Reality

    Photogrammetry

    3D Printing

    Model making

Skills