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Menu Home Upfront Now Up Books Towns Structures People Firms Lexicon DAVEY, Calayde Born: ? Architect MArch(Prof) Pretoria Winner of the 2011 Africa and Middle East Region's Holcim Next Generation Award for post-graduate students. Ideas: Urban Requalification The Vertical Agriculture at the Old Pretoria West Power Station project transforms a soon to be decommissioned coal bunker of a power station into a vertical hydroponic garden, thereby inverting the attributes of a former polluting facility into a purifying element that continues to be a mechanism for supply of the city’s needs. Grey- and rain-water is used to grow food in close proximity to the urban consumer. Spin-offs become resources: gas and biomass for energy production in addition to compost and clean water. To establish the necessary framework for the transposed use, the crude existing structure hosts bamboo construction, exploring its limits in multi-floor commercial application. Regional jury Report: The jury commended this project because of its visionary idea and impact that appears both feasible and constructible. The utilization of abandoned industrial structures will become an increasingly relevant issue in societies that are transitioning to the tertiary sector. See Holcim Foundation.