hopePlate 042 · Johannesburg, South Africa

Constitution Hill

A court of a new constitution, built in and against an old prison.

2004 · OMM Design Workshop & others · Africa

The chamber score

Rhythms of Resistance, toyi-toyi climate

Township traditional · 20th c.

A fortress of the Cape still has to hear the march.

An original chamber arrangement in the climate of the work. The recording is not a copy. It is the room answering.

Why it is here

The Constitutional Court precinct, a monument of post-apartheid justice.

Commission the full chamber

This monument is in the atlas. The rebuild can be written for you.

Ask the studio to reconstruct Constitution Hill through hope — or shift it into another corridor.

Open a commission

Shift the feeling

What if Constitution Hill was rebuilt as something else?

Ask the architect

One question. Stay in the room.