The building will operate as a day clinic, incorporating consulting rooms, treatment and dressing, Tuberculosis and daily supervised treatment unit (DST) and a teenage counseling unit as principal clinical accommodation. The clinic is considered by the client as relatively small in relation to operational requirements, but includes a pharmacy for dispensing medicine to patients and as part of the brief, provision was made for future expansion within the design.

The architects were required to select and motivate the appropriate location for the clinic within the property made available by the city of cape Town to produce a design corresponding to clinical requirements of the brief and articulate a building response that effectively deals with its immediate natural and man-made environments, respectively harsh and unsafe.

Budget: R10 million
Client: City of Cape Town
Team: Jakupa architects and urban designers
Project type: Institutional
Location: Corner of Bobs’s way and Beverly street, Eerste river, Cape Town
Status: on site, completion 2012