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DESIGNERS: when you hand-in a complete submission, you’ll receive ZAR250! 






designBouts

they battle, you win
designBouts lets you create a competition for your project and choose the winning entry from select designers.


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how it works

create your brief

together with designBouts, you create a design brief. (designBouts also generates the base data - existing plans, etc - that the designers work from).

set up your competition

you offer prize money and set the deadline,
designBouts facilitates the battle.

choose the winner

your favourite design wins!
(designBouts filters out unviable proposals).
completed bouts
click here to see the Guidelines we consult ︎


HOUSE IN WESTDENE

Architecture. Landscape. Interior.

︎brief︎

summary
Re-design the interior and exterior spaces on this 496m2 site (improve inter-interior and interior-exterior relationships, enhance entertainment space and add: a workshop with storage, two small parking spaces and a small bathroom).
Full brief and base info︎
GIS ︎ CoJ’s Zoning info ︎
purse
ZAR4,680.00
(SACAP Stage 2 only︎)

due date
31 August ’20
at 13h CAT

location
Westdene︎
Johannesburg, ZA︎

︎ winner ︎



summary
Replaced the lean-to roof that covers the kitchen and second lounge with an exposed truss new gable roof. It is an extruded copy of the one that roofs the west wing of the house. Proposed new workshops (that can be repurposed into rentable rooms) to enclose the entertainment space and remodelled the existing interior. Front garden is designed to allow additional cars to alley dock in tandem on it.

See designer’s explanation︎
purse
paid to winner
(SACAP Stage 2 only︎)

completion date
TBC

score card
see how a winner is selected ︎
view winning proposal ︎


challengers


summary
received three submissions.
purse
winner took all

completion date
N/A

score card
see the comments︎
view proposals ︎

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BOOKCASE IN LINDEN

Interior. Furniture

︎brief︎

interior. furnitur

summary
Design a bookcase in the living room of a free standing mid century house in Linden. It should offer approximately 16 linear metres of storage space and bear a total (live plus dead) load of 900 Newtons (90kg). The bookcase should be cat scratch and child proof and be low maintenance.

Full brief and base info︎
purse
ZAR1,500.00
(SACAP Stage 2 only︎)

due date
28 Sept ’20
at 13h CAT

location
Linden︎
Johannesburg, ZA︎
view base info ︎



︎winner︎


adjudication guidelines we consult are here︎


(note the client selects the winner, see how ︎)

summary
The book case is intended to be the focal point for the living space. It can be added to and ‘grow’ as the owners’ needs and tastes evolve. The book case is conceived as a modular wall unit. It has seating below eye level and storage at and above eye level. It accommodates a large planter box so that a small tree may be placed in it.

See designer’s explanation︎
purse
paid to winner
(SACAP Stage 2 only︎)

completion date
TBC
 
score card
see how a winner is selected ︎
view winning proposal ︎


challengers


summary
received one entry
purse
winner took all

completion date
N/A

score card
none
view proposals ︎
N/A


APARTMENT IN PARKWOOD

Architecture. Interior. Furniture.

︎brief︎


summary
Redesign the interior of this 56m2 single storey, one bedroom apartment in Parkwood that overlooks the Parkview Golf Course for a bachelor with allergies.

Full brief and base info︎
purse
ZAR4,847.00
(SACAP Stage 2 only︎)

due date
30 Nov ’20
at 13h CAT

location
Parkwood︎
Johannesburg, ZA︎
view base info ︎


︎winner︎




summary
I enlarged the bedroom to allow and made the bedroom access door come off the entrance hall. This allows the living room to have a complete or useable wall that becomes a feature for the space. The bathroom is optimised  and the parquet floor is reinstated.

purse
paid to winner
(SACAP Stage 2 only︎)

completion date
30 Sep ‘21
(complete)

score card
see how a winner is selected︎

challengers

summary
I switched the bedroom and the kitchen and created a walk-in closet off the bathroom. This creates more privacy - guests do not need to enter the bedroom to access the bathroom. 
purse
winner took all

completion date
N/A

score card
see the comments

BED FOR APARTMENT IN PARKHURST

︎brief︎


summary
design a double bed base for the bedroom
purse
R700

due date
28 March ’22
at 13h CAT

location
Parkwood︎
Johannesburg, ZA︎
view base info

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︎winner︎




summary
to make more use of the limited space in the small bedroom, I raised a bed base off the floor to allow for storage beneath it. I offset the legs away from the frame’s edge to avoid users’ toes and shins from being stubbed when they circulate around the bed en-route to the bathroom. This creates a bed that floats above the restored parquet floor.
purse
paid to winner
(SACAP Stage 2 only︎)

completion date
6 May ’22
(complete)

scorecard
see how a winner is selected

view winning proposal





HOUSE IN HELDERKRUIN

︎brief︎


summary
Re-design the interior and exterior spaces on this 1980s family house on a 2,003m2 site so it can become a vacation retreat for an expat and her extended family (who’ll occupy it in her absence).
Full brief and base info︎
GIS︎ CoJ’s Zoning info︎
purse
R6,968.00
(SACAP Stage 2 only︎)

due date
21 February ’21
at 13h CAT

location
Helderkruin︎
Johannesburg, ZA


︎winner︎




summary
I  created a generous entertainment volume which has a direct relationship with the pool and garden by demolishing the existing interior walls and drop-in ceiling and installing stackable glass doors on the entire northern facade. A new roof brings more light and manages rain water better than the thatch roof it replaces over the bar area. 
purse
paid to winner
(SACAP Stage 2 only︎)

completion date
21 September ‘21
(complete)

score card
see the comments

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