Darius Greyling
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Rissik Street Post Offfice
Forgotten Architecture
"To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it"
-Daniel Libeskind
This project is a combination of interdisciplinary design and CAD. This project requires us to use our posters that we have made in interdisciplinary design and, using Photoshop, enhance the poster using the different precedent studies
Back ground of the building
Built in 1897 and designed by architect Sytze Wierda, the historic Rissik Street post office in central Johannesburg is a celebrated national monument. Once the city's tallest building, this nearly 130-year-old landmark has suffered from severe neglect and devastating fires in recent years, though ongoing rehabilitation efforts by the city remain in motion
Insperations
For this poster, I wanted to tell the story of the building through the poster by concentrating on the media and techniques that were used in that era of media and adding new styles to it. The building needs to be centred on the page, mimicking a newspaper of that era. The building has a predominantly red-brown colour and works with its complementary and analogous colours to put emphasis on the building
experimentation
These are posters that I have experimented with. I have experimented with the posters by telling the two eras of the building, and with the first poster working with a colour palette, and in this second poster going with a minimal poster reflecting the modern age left behind, with a layout of the classical era to tell the past
Result
The poster depicts the sunset of Johannesburg on Rissik Street. This shows more of the building in dimension by the shadow that the building is casting. I positioned the building on the rule of thirds, to put more focus on the clock tower of the building. I placed the road in front to show some of the movement that is taking place, in and around the building. I have placed the text in the right corner as if there was a post stamp on the poster. By posting a border around the it frames the poster and gives negative space on the page.