Architects:Office 24-7 Architecture

Area:2220m²

Year:2015

Photographs:Natasha Dawjee Laurent

Manufacturers:Corobrik,Dorma,Dulux,Flowcrete,Gyproc Saint-Gobain,Isover - Saint Gobain,Union Tiles

Lead Architect:Nabeel Essa

Exhibition Contractor:Image K,Digital Fabric

Electrical Engineers:CKR Consulting Engineers

Architects:William Dewar, Beth Stevens, Letlhabile Shubane

Museum Developers And Project Managers:Totem Media

Landscape Architect:Patrick Watson

General Contractor :BriDev Projects, Thoma Thabiso Construction

Graphic Designers:Brainwave

City:Moruleng

Country:South Africa

Text description provided by the architects. The rural town of Moruleng is found along the slopes of the Mmammitlwa Mountains in the Northwest province of South Africa. It is the ancestral home of the Bakgatla-ba-Kgafela people. Through a conceptual spatial layering of histories, the precinct forces a complete rethink of the notion of the cultural museum. Numerous historical influences on the Bakgatla-ba-Kgafela community are at play in this space, from pre-colonial stone settlements and systems, to how Christianity and apartheid have affected this rural community, and also a future rich with possibility. The precinct talks to issues of localized identity in a global framework, as you move between age-old beliefs and traditions and present-day realities.