Image Courtesy of Heatherwick StudioĪccording to the V&A Waterfront, "the other silo bins will be carved away above ground level leaving the rounded exterior walls intact. This atrium space will be "used for monumental art commissions not seen in Africa until this construction." The chemistry of these intersecting geometries creates an extraordinary display of edges, achieved with advanced concrete cutting techniques. Light streaming through the new glass roof will accentuate the roundness of the tubes. The result will be an oval atrium surrounded by concrete shafts overhead and to the sides. The architects have cut a cross‐section through eight of the central concrete tubes. The solution developed by Heatherwick Studio is to carve galleries and a central circulation space from the silos’ cellular concrete structure to create an exceptionally spacious, cathedral‐like central atrium filled with light from an overhead glass roof. We could either fight a building made of concrete tubes or enjoy its tube‐iness." U nlike many conversions of historic buildings which have grand spaces ready to be repurposed, "this building has none." "The project has become about imagining an interior carved from within an infrastructural object whilst celebrating the building’s character." Rather than strip out the evidence of the building’s industrial heritage, we wanted to find a way to enjoy and celebrate it. There is no large open space within the densely packed tubes and it is not possible to experience these volumes from inside. According to Heatherwick, "our thoughts wrestled with the extraordinary physical facts of the building.
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The designers' first question centered around how to turn forty‐two vertical concrete tubes into a place to experience contemporary culture.
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The monumental façades of the silos and the lower section of the tower will be maintained without inserting new windows allowing for the thick layers of render and paint to be removed in order to reveal the raw beauty of the original concrete. Once the tallest building on the Cape Town skyline, the silos on the V&A Waterfront "will become a major, not‐for‐profit cultural institution housing the most significant collection of contemporary art from Africa and its Diaspora." Heatherwick Studio's final design has been described as revealing a harmonious union of concrete and metal with crisp white spaces enveloped in light.
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