LG - Table - Wildetecture style

The LG table is cut from stainless steel plate. The other range of LG pieces have been cut as a realistic silhouette - however this piece is much more abstract. I enjoy art being functional as well as aesthetic - bringing sculptural colour and drama into a space using the furniture. This is a creative wildetecture design ideal.

new dwellings QJD architectural design studio

A few examples of QJD studios completed work in the last little while.

When one reflects on ones artistic creative journey. For me its only in the creative skeletal remains of my end product work. I see all my vulnerabilities and my strengths in the end products of my thought process. My paintings i see my insecurities, my sculpture i see my limited ability. I feel my vulnerability in saying far to much. Like ive shouted my inner most thoughts into a crowded market place. But i wouldnt change the journey because its sculpted  me. And although i must always  improve, i must always  be cognitive of who i was at each step of this creative journey. Only then will i work towards creating more advanced mature end product creative designs.

So exposing yourself to criticism and vulnerability is our sculptured process to artistic growth. A conundrum if your a shy person. But a necesary process if you want to reach your artistic creative zennith. 

noordhoek development - QJD design studio

most folk assume that the QJD design studio creates off the wall architecture based on the fanciful designs showcased in this blog and other sites - although the WILDETECTURE concept is very exciting to us,  the reality is that the studio concentrates on the current residential market here in south africa. designing homes across the financial spectrum. our passion is simple livable homes in various styles - we are currently busy on several developments in the cape town area.

Argonauts Muizenberg beach comber.

Beach combing on Muizenberg beach from May through till July can yield incredible shell rewards. For me there is not much more rewarding than stumbling upon a washed up delicate Argonaut shell. Washed up in the foam of the surf and deposited on the Capes white sands. You have to collect it before an army of gulls descend on it to peck it apart. You need to collect at 4am in the morning, torch in hand to be assured of unbrokrn ones. Dangerous now as the vagrants hold sway of the early morning beach time. Vagrants empowered by tic and mandrax awaiting the zombie hour to say hello to an unsuspecting beach arganaut comber. They very polite as they frantically stab 40 holes a second into you with a bicycle spoke. Ive actually seen this cape flats greeting in reality. Not on the beach but the other day on the side of the road next to Lavenderhill. It was, can i say, rather traumatic really. Then after saying hello like this; the early morning zombies comb you for your meagre possessions. Not that im at all bitter about the growth of the beach wildlife, i just have a hard dose of reality check to keep me safe. So i beach comb during the day and a pick axe handle in hand. Oh and 2 killer daxies.

It seems this year has yielded a bumper harvest of this incredible specimen along the Muizenberg coast. I really enjoy walking from the area in front of where i live in muizenberg to cemetery some 3 km down the beach. I have done this walk with my 2 noisy, barking mad sausage dogs umpteenth times. And yesterday i found my very first Argonaut shell, these shells are sometimes confused with the chambered Nautilus im told. They are rare to find in tact.

When i returned to the parking area a chap named Carel with chinky tattoos all over his face sold me 2 other Argonaut shells. Much bigger and better specimens than the one i found but nothing can beat the feeling of finding my own shell. As mentioned I know the more experienced collectors walk the beach at night with torches in hand looking for these treasures. So to find one in the day is very rare and satisfying. I am told that it is the female of the species that makes the shell and its very rare to find the little creature in the shell as well. very fortunately my shell was well and truly vacated.

I am very happy with my 3 new shell shelf members. Beach combing is still one of the great past times. After a huge Cape storm not much beats the walk on the beach once the storm has past. On the west coast you find fossils. Shark teeth and elecrocasabretooth bones. Hugely exciting. 

I also collect washed up slip slops as well. These i recycle. Wearing 2 different slops to do my part for global warming as the orange spray painter zealots call it. I feel like an empowered activist glueing myself to a rare painting to make an important subtle point. Me and my odd slip slops or thongs as Australians call them. You never find 2 matching pairs of slip slops. I imagine the other slop on another activists foot in Malaysia. Lekker duiderlik my bru. The simple things for the win. The treasures the tide yields is mint.

Africa creative renaissance - wildetecture ideal

It is a fact that Africa is an extremely dramatic continent.  It has always striven to be independent of western ideals, many men and cultures have tried to mold Africa into an extension of Europe. However it has always fervently sought its own unique identity. An identity as old as the sculpted cape fold mountains. From the Sphinx, Pyramids to the Moors, Hausa, Dogon and Ndebele - African architecture has always been extremely dramatic, gaudy , wild.
It is this wildness that the style of wildetecture tries to in a small way emulate. Its the untamed aspects of Africa design that will help mold and create wildetectures  expressionistic interpretation of architecture on this untamed continent. 

Using these very Africa design points of departure, Wildetecture proposes a few examples for an Africa architectural renaissance. Definitely not to every ones taste, A bold  way of conceptualizing and interpreting the untamed continents unique architecture , art and design style.

Suggestions to improve Fish Hoek

Fish Hoek is a small coastal town on the Cape

Peninsula. I have a vested interest in this little valley as i was born in Falsebay hospital and grew up between the confines of the Kalk Bay mountains and Elsies peak. I write grew up with reservation.

I have for many years been suggesting improvements to this little place and its industrialised main road. I have created several little booklets and plan layouts which Ive handed to community papers, community magazines , estate agents and business property owners on the main road. Unfortunately my perspectives of improving the Fish Hoek main road has not really amounted to much.

So if folk cant see a value in your suggestions - blog about it. Maybe someone out there has a similar little town they are emotionally attached to and can use the suggestions.

Fish Hoek has an A-list blue status beach which is separated from the heart of the town by a railway line. Which means the 2 operate independently from each other. Another interesting development is that the beach accommodates cars more than it accommodates people. Many years ago the municipality created paid for parking on the beach which is a little money spinner for someone. So on a sweltering hot summers day cars clog up the bulk of the beach area - Whilst the people squash themselves in a small sliver of sand and grass. Ive always marvelled at this. The effect is exaggerated when a great white shark makes an appearance and everyone leaves the water. Now the little sliver of pedestrian area is completely crowded. High tide is also an interesting happening.

The railway line is not an attractive addition to this scenario and really spoils what could be an awesome beach town atmosphere.

Here are my suggestions - and like most suggestions they are not easy to institute, they will take planning and hard work. They will be very expensive.  But the rewards for all will be worth the effort im sure.

Firstly spoornet needs to relook at the railway line - why?- Because it is my understanding that they sold off spoornet land on the clovelly side of Fish Hoek main road. The flats that where built on this stretch did nothing to improve the atmosphere of Fish Hoek. Infact between the face brick prison of a police station and the face brick spoornet flats - We have an uninviting bricklane entrance to the village. So my suggestion to spoornet is this. -

The railway line can either be raised as in kalkbay or buried in a tunnel underground. just for the 200m from the railway station to the restaurant at the beach. Alternatively the train between simonstown and fish hoek could run seperately with a station at sunnycove. A taxi service can link these 2 stations. I know the engineering on some of these suggestions will be both costly and difficult but it will allow the town to filter onto the beach.

The cars which now enjoy the bulk of the A-list beach can be housed in a 3 storey parking garage built on the parking ground in 1st avenue. This will allow folk to park their cars and filter through the village shops on the way to the beach. Like the Algarve in Portugal - a perfect example of sound design.

There are certain big corporates that own shops leading into Fish Hoek. These buildings turn their back on the main road and can be altered to reflect a more inviting facade as you enter the village.

A walkway can be added over the pavement on both sides of the fish hoek main road - This will create 2 levels of shop frontage as you would find in a mall - only this will be an open air shopping experience.

The garden of remembrance can couple as a sculpture garden and the circle at the end of fish hoek could have a coffee shop with walkways leading to it under the road.

Kalkbay and Simonstown have such wonderful atmosphere and most folk when riding through fish hoek have no reason to stop. Although huge improvements have been made since i first started making these suggestions, i do feel the railway link , parking and certain buildings need architectural improvement before fish hoek reaches its full village potential.

The above 2 presentation jpgs are an extreme form of getting attention. I read an article that fish hoek and muizenberg beach where zoned for 10 and 12 storey blocks of flats. So i decided to design a possible Franken freakish wildetecture  scenario. The design keys into a revival of Gothic ideas with humanoid structure being sculpturely displayed on the outside of the buildings. Definitely only to a few peoples taste and definitely bound to create the needed controversy for change.

I really do love these coralscape sort of lines - However i have found that conservative towns will go to great lengths to preserve their boxes and conservative ideals. I now live in Muizenberg - For reasons best kept to myself this has been a great move.

Recycled creative drawing board work station

Creativite design, artistic endeavor is more about developing a super tough critic proof skin and hard calloused knuckles for door knocking your work and ideas. The title of being creative is best given from those around you and shouldn't really emanate from your own mouth to often. - This is a code to live by. Human driven creativity should to my mind be first and foremost humble. A contradiction i hear from the single person reading this blog. 

I have been chasing pavements, sketching and tinkling computer keys with my wildetecture Africa fauvistic architectural design concepts for many years. As well as the Erxell concept idea for awhile now. For the 1 blogger reader you will be unfamiliar with these design ideas - I have in part summarised the Erxell concept below and on other blogs. - wildetecture has its own website. Www.wildetecture.com The road to being artistically heard and seen is aligned with the creatively blind and deaf. Im sorry to burst a bubble, my 1 blogger reader.

The Erxell concept.

The Erxell concept is an exciting new design venture which I find myself hurtling towards at the speed of light. It keys in part into the now recycled creative drawing board and the idea of creating jobs and better systems for an Africa setting informal settlement. I have had a passion for some time to create communicative links between industry, artists, creatives, designers, education and informal settlements. The recycled drawing board was the first phase of this vision, the optimistic catalyst or creative spark item (CSI) to create a tangible vehicle for this elusive communicative link. Crossing language barriers, socio divides and communicating through raw artistic graphics. In part the design idea is termed the Erxell concept. Which provides a mechanism to reach into impoverished areas and empower those through simple, clever design. Being sympathetic to the many cultural, financial and social issues within these communities and others.

Simply put QJD dsigen sutdio (i know) wants to consult to industry, informal settlements, educational partners - By using industries waste, Create well designed usable creative tool products, which folk in informal settlements can help manufacture. Creating a type of synergy, a glass bead of creative trade between all socio economic groups and try put them around the industry table.

The recycled creative drawing board will be this symbol or sculpture of this design endeavour - Reaching into the most impoverished communities and providing a vehicle for artistic graphic communication. Old school sketching style. Ol one reader blogger says AI will provide this service? I vehemently disagree 1 reader blogger. The human mind is far superior. So while harvester idea machines work at switching our crestive artistic minds off. I champion the idea of switching our human creative minds on. 

As is so true - an artistically compiled picture speaks a thousand words. When compiled by human hands it further envokes emotion, synergy and incredible potentail.

Now ladies and gentlemen and the one blogger reader.  That's an idea to get completely excited about. 

The set of pictures above show step 1-4 of being able to pack and transport these design artistic drawing boards anywhere in the world.

The unveiling of the draughting chair . A fitting symbol of welding graphics, art, sculpture and design ideas. This keys into the concept of the revolutionary PGM and Vivaladraught ideas currently being explored.

Human driven creativity is the long road to skilled outcome process thinking and to beautiful emotive art work. 

Khayalitsha agricultural project wildetecture style

The erxell concept is a futuristic conceptual design idea coupled with Wildetecture design ideals - As per all design concepts, one has to fully understand that its way beyond the concept of MAYA - (Most Advanced Yet Acceptable) ie for the time now its to mal, to contemplate.

However wildetecture will continue to advocate the Erxell concept even if current design mindsets have written it off - Principally because  it benefits destitute folk who really need a better system to key into. Until these informal settlement folk can sit at the negotiating table with a product to sell - Big business, government, society will be content to keep feeding the destitute charitable limited crumbs.

Cape Town has huge informal settlement communities living under current extremely desperate conditions - In fire tinder box tin shacks just outside or in all the major cities - These dwellings roof space - could become a blank canvas that will benefit a few thousand informal settlement dwellers. An agricultural crop circle billboard put onto 100 x 100 informal settlement shack roofs. The families benefit from waterproofed roof and possible residual income - Advertising gets the biggest dargone sign in the world - win win -  Yes the challenges for instituting this concept are immense , yes to get the folk living in these settlements to continually upgrade and manicure their signage will be challenging. It is these challenges the advertising machine and government need to look at addressing - Because it will add a new dimension onto  the actual earth branded signage - The erxell was developed for the express purpose of putting the poor and advertising at the same table. Perhaps facilitated by government. What government lets their people live under deplorable informal settlements? Without creating urban developement solutions not controlled by gangs and corrupt landlords.  Now thats an idea -  www.erxell.com  - Thats a billboard to get excited about.

QJD design studio has long been busy promoting the Erxell concept  - Its a layering urban developement concept - let me explain. The actual branding component is only a part of the overall idea. as south africans we design our urban sprawl for the destitute very 1 dimensionally - Outwards and as fast as possible. What if we could literally live under our own.plsnted vineyards? Yes that would require platforms - using a lightweight frame  structure which the human living component keys into. So the structure for the platform and abode are 1 - taking care of 2 living dynamics at once.

The platform will allow the growth of lightweight produce like veggies, vineyards and possibly wheat. So the cultivating fields are above the dwelling component. Which forms the layering idea - The branding component forms a futuristic crop circle with the growing component cleverly interwoven into the visual branded design logo. Much like the Victorian manicured gardens of old and crop circles combined. The value of the Erxell unit of measure which is what the advertising giants buy from the informal settlement dweller will increase with the better kept logos. Which creates work, food and incentive to both cultivate and keep the cape flats looking green, green , green.

So the logo is an organic sculpture which needs maintenance - Every plane flying over the cape flats area will be able to see if the workers below are manicuring their crops and fields - This will increase the rent able Erxell space and ultimately be the monetary value - other than the actual food of course which can be bartered as in times of old.

My steps so far -

I have approached the South African institute of draughting. They have endorsed my new unit of earth brand able measurement - They have seen the future prospects of this form of large scale draughting. - The Erxell - 3 cubits X 3 cubits -( Erxell is earth sell and pixel combined) - Thereby creating A glass bead of trade between the advertising giants and your little family living in a current informal settlement shack at eg. 1 khayalitsha site B. This creates a system whereby we all benefit. A cultivated garden pointing skywards - Creating a brandable billboard - everyone wins.

Because this idea goes way beyond Raymond Loewy's MAYA concept - (Most Advanced Yet Acceptable). Its been a very slow education process. I am getting abit of airtime in design mags, its received recognition from Holcim and a few other international accolades. - I believe the way forward is one shack at a time.

I believe altruistically if a system is designed in place to have a holistic affect on an entire community - The current riff raff will not dare disrupt the balance - These communities are held ransom by criminals. No government intervention. They have to survive on their own. Nobody comes to their rescue. That is a fact.  

If the multitudes are aware that collectively they can draw attention to their plight and gain finance in this way - They will police their own area and make sure the criminal element doesn't rock the current .

www.wildetecture.com 

Busy with other future city scape urban visionary design ideas. However im aware these conceptual design ideas are not possible currently. The very sad reality of south africas rural community has been poured into its big cities. Sadly people live in deplorable informal settlements with not much hope for the future. Thats a Fact. A bit of design idea respite can be to weld the rural with the city scape. 

http://www.erxell.com/ founder member of the erxell effect. One positive move forward. 

QJD wing back chair

The wingback chair as interpreted by QJD design studio - I use several render packages to get to my final sketches. I believe one has to have your own unique style when presenting your work - Hence i favour using 1 package to create the model. 1 package to render and 1 package to compose the end product. As some of my design work revolves around CAD packages i compile all my initial models in ZWCAD. I then export my model into the next package and tweak and

adjust and then move on to the next. Its how i chose to work at the moment - which works for me.

The wingback chair is my latest little sketch - check out the code Mr wimbat wimble and jack TV.

-QJD-

QJD design studio - frankenchair

To conform to a new phase 2 creative design idea strategy - i am unveiling the ''FRANKENCHAIR'' i am sharing some of my conceptual ideas with you and hopefully you find some inspiration in these roughed out sketches.

Wimbat Wimble and Jack TV. (you cant eliminate the code completely)

Design is really as design does, sculptural furniture form is bringing in wild aesthetic into very small living spaces. You can't easily have wild sculptures and furniture in a small space. However you can combine the 2.aesthetucs in a small space. Visual artistic manuevres in confined small spaces in the dark. Even tiny space challenges can always enjoy sculptural art. This sculptural form is the wild end product. Your average 70's looking interior home made over by a piece of furniture eating the rest. Its visual carnage i tell you. Not everyones cup of tea really, but some of you dont even drink tea!

 

Charlie & charlize chit chat chairs

pool lounging with a difference

Charlie and Charlize chit chat chairs are furniture accessory wildetecture pool lounges. A super deco status pool accessory. Sculptured pool furniture style design. 

They come with enough tude to sort out the prema- dons from the donnas. And sufficient bling to spark a revolution of dialogue. Hence the chit chat part. 

Wild pool accessory design - wildetecture style. 

QJD research & development

Phase 1 - Over the last 5 years Ive been exploring with different advertising angles. Trying to get what i do and offer out there. I thought showing my target group im a creative was enough. Not so it seems. 

1) Ive had the small but subtle clues leading to my website approach in 2005 - Printed In magazine advertisements that showed QJD design studio and no contact details other than my name. My reasoning was to get folk to google my info and interact with the business from their. The mystery discovery approach - appeal to the mystety fiscoverer. Meh!! didnt work. Turns out the masses dont like homework puzzles. Not a bite.

2) Ive had the leaving old leather folders in airports round the world approach in 2008. Also the same info put in old bottles thrown into the sea.  With encrypted clues and hidden messages. All leading to my erxell website.

Google - Grebnezium, yip trip , nado storm and a host of other cooked up design ideas and see what i mean. I received the grand total of 1 hit from someone who found a bottle in Arniston and told me they found it. Not a huge advertising success TBH. 

3)The first chapter written sci-fi story - Arachnid sunrise - also put in sea harvested bottles approach in 2009, again very secret squirrel. Nudda, it was like the sea kept all its stories hidden. 

4) Ive written a few whacked out short stories and poems and left them around the world using various mediums. Nuffing.

5) the decal on my car with no numbers mystery cteative design man. Turns out hieroglyphics is not a decipherable past time.

All 5 concepts phase 1 sufficiently whacky and off the wall which suites my experimental advertising approach. Well in all this Ive deduced.

IF YOUR NOT HAVING IN YOUR FACE ADVERTISING CAMPAIGN, YOUR NOT GOING TO GET THE EXPOSURE.

People don't want to use treasure maps to find you, the 2 bites of the cherry is not an advertising concept - Especially if the first bite is ity bity small and unclear. If your not coke or pepsing your add campaigns - don't expect bums on seats.

So ladies and gentlemen I'm now going to try.

Phase 2 of the research on my own approach to how i advertise. drummmmm rolllll puleeze

QJD design studio, Erxell and all the other concepts on roids approach. Starting with putting all my designs out there. Im now beefing up the ad campaign, beeeg time. No more mr subtle nancy fancy 2 shoes mystery pants. This show is going on the road - well in the very least im going to stand infront of my office in the road and dodge the cars shouting my campaign to get clients.

The attached jpeg is my butterfly chair design - We are going from stealth mode to supersonic no mystery advertising.

Actual built end product designs. Lets see how enormous this advertising approach can get. 

(Turns out, because you can add stuff in blogs in 2025 - not so enormous. If the masses aint ready for your design creative madness. Your nut noodle aint getting sponsored off the runway.)

T-shirt - by qjd design studio

One day i will buy one of these cars. Until then i will just showcase my ambition on a T shirt. This car represents design way before its time. Minds that think of ideas before the mainstream are very rare and refreshing. The many features designed on this car showcased design thinking way before anyone else. 

PADAWAN GRAPHIC MONKEY - IS VIVALADRAUGHT

The padawan graphic monkey is a fusion between -

starwars, alfred e nueman, che - revolutionary , greese monkey's and andy W and his marilyn pic and draughtspersons the world over. - PGM - aka vivaladraught south african draughtspersonage. 

Citroen shelf and cd wheel holder

artists easel and drawing board

nado storm t-shirt 4sale

Nado Storm Cape Town super hero T-shirts 4sale.