www.jakupa.co.za

"innovation + creativity      
in solving everyday African urban problems..."

Our Profile

JAKUPA is a young architecture and urban design practice that has the express intent to create a rich urban environment through creative engagement in our contemporary urban milieu. Our vision is rooted in humanistic values and in finding appropriate roles for architecture and urbanism. We are driven by a dynamic team with diverse skills that is used to drive our philosophy of research through design practice. We engage in work that ranges from addressing social and ecological issues to responsibly building in today's market economy. We believe that the act of city making is a political exercise and acknowledge the responsibility we share in making equitable, productive and sustainable space.

Jakupa was born through the energy of the revitalized political context within which we work. We are driven by a dynamic team of diverse academic and practical skills and our scope of work ranges from addressing significant social, ecological and environmental issues to responsibly building in today’s market economy. We believe that the act of city making is a political exercise and acknowledge the responsibility we share in making the space we live in equitable, productive and sustainable. The company philosophy unambiguously entrenches their ideals simultaneously through conscientious design and corporate policy. We are therefore proud to acknowledge our 100% HDI status and our ideals to sincere and radical transformation.

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Vision Statement

Jakupa has the express intent to create a rich and varied architectural environment for the creative and constructive engagement in the contemporary African urban condition through both practice and academic application. Our mission is rooted in a strong tradition of concern for humanistic values and the aim to find appropriate roles for architecture and urbanism in our society.

We will be recognized as a place where our creativity can be engaged, cultivated and nurtured in a framework of values that is humanistically, socially and environmentally responsible. We will address these issues by building responsibly in today’s market economy and relate this to contemporary architectural theory and practice in the local context.

Through our philosophy of research through design practice, Jakupa will bring contemporary architectural theory and practice into a relationship with the skills, thinking and heritage of architecture in an African context.

In our commitment to the ideals of sincere and radical social and spatial transformation, we sincerely believe that the act of city making is a political exercise and acknowledge the responsibility we share through making the space we live in equitable, productive and sustainable.

Jakupa will engender a work ethic where our creativity is complemented by the ability to produce projects within time and budgetary constraints. We will provide a full range of architecture, urban design and related services with a focus on sustainable design solutions. We will deliver innovative briefs through stakeholder participation, which address organisational development and strategic planning prerequisites in a holistic manner.

Value Statement

• to work with dedication, honesty and integrity
• to be socially + environmentally responsible
• to be responsive + service orientated
• to exercise our discipline through creative problem solving
• to engage in social + spatial transformation

Our Objectives

• Establish a place for energetically engaging in the everyday African urban environment through architecture, urban design and related professional practice
• Establish an environment conducive to creative + stimulating effort
• Practice for “ethical” profit + benefit for all who works for the company
• Develop a highly skilled team that are recognized experts in their field
• Become the first port of call for mass housing, mobility infrastructure, sustainable urban and architectural design at all scales
• Create a happy place for all