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The final design project: the Clay Art & Wellness Centre, a scheme exploring how spaces for making and moving can foster wellbeing, creativity, and community.
The design places clay at its heart both as a raw material and as a metaphor for transformation. On the ground floor, robust red brick walls frame messy, communal pottery workshops, reflecting clay’s solidity in its earliest form. As users move upward, the materiality shifts to lighter timber slats and softer finishes, creating an atmosphere suited to yoga, pilates, and quiet therapy. This spatial journey mirrors clay’s own process: from raw and unformed to refined, moulded, and purposeful.
More than just a centre for art, the project is a study in how architecture can support wellness through process rather than product. Courtyards and thresholds punctuate the building, offering pauses for reflection between moments of intensity and stillness.
Rhisdiah graduated with First Class Honours in Architecture and Planning from the University of the West of England. She has experience in the planning sector through placements and internships, and was recently named a semi-finalist in an architecture competition. She is eager to begin her career in architecture and planning, with a strong interest in master planning, urban design and design.
Connect with Rhisdiah Van Wyk on LinkedIn or send her an email at vrhisdiah@gmail.com
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