South Africa 2005: Utopia. Nowhere. Close.

The Sans Souci
Soweto, Gauteng, South Africa - Lindsay Bremner Architects & 26'10 South Architects

Kliptown, a neglected township in Soweto near Johannesburg, is the site of this project to rebuild the Sans Souci, a community cinema destroyed by fire in 1995. Beginning with the question, "What minimum resources does one need to turn a ruin into a cinema?" the project does not start with a building idea. It develops and gives the 'idea' of cinema new meaning over time, through a number of events and incremental architectural interventions that reconstruct the memory of the Sans Souci and projects it into the future in the minds of the local community.

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