Architecture portfolio of graduate John Mokoena, based in Cape Town, covering four years of academic and competition projects. Focus on adaptive reuse, timber construction, and the threshold between public and private space.
This is the architecture portfolio of John Mokoena, a graduate based in Cape Town, presenting selected work from 2023 to 2026. It is aimed at potential employers, academic reviewers, or competition juries who want to see the designer's approach to adaptive reuse, timber construction, and the boundary between public and private life.
The document opens with an about page listing the author's skills, including design development, model making, technical detailing, hand sketching, site analysis, and presentation drawing. It also names the software used, such as Rhino with Grasshopper, AutoCAD, Adobe Creative Suite, Enscape, Revit, and SketchUp.
The core project is the Threshold Pavilion, a community pavilion designed to mediate the edge between a public street and a quiet inner courtyard. The concept uses a lightweight timber threshold to slow the passage between the two spaces, as described in the project introduction.
Site and context analysis notes a main pedestrian desire-line cutting diagonally across the plot from a station to a market. The north-facing courtyard receives full winter sun, the east facade is shaded by a neighbouring wall, and a long view toward the mountain is held open from the entry threshold.
Drawings include ground and first floor plans, a section, and an exploded axonometric view. Visualisations cover interior and exterior views of the pavilion, and the portfolio concludes with a curriculum vitae and contact information.