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University of Natal, Womens' Hall of Residence - Scully and University Club
Durban, KwaZulu-Natal

HALLEN and DIBB: Architect
Maurice George DIBB: Architect

Date:1966-1968
Client:University of Natal (now Kwa-Zulu-Natal)
Type:Hostel
Status:Extant

 


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Coordinates:
29°52'10.63" S 30°58'49.24" E

Executed in a Romantic Brutalism declaring itself in the anti-formalist organic shapes, the relationships between the buildings and that of the buildings to the landscape. There is a frank use of basic materials, showing the planking formwork in the off-shutter concrete. (Greig, 1971: 113-114). BIERMANN equated seeing these residences to be like 'glimpsing rhinoceroses through the foliage'.


Books that reference University of Natal, Womens' Hall of Residence - Scully and University Club

Greig, Doreen. 1971. A Guide to Architecture in South Africa. Cape Town: Howard Timmins. pg 113-114