sustainabilityPlate 043 · Mapungubwe, South Africa

Mapungubwe Interpretation Centre

Vaults of earth tiles in a landscape of an ancient kingdom.

2008 · Peter Rich · Africa

The chamber score

Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika

Enoch Sontonga · 1897

The anthem was a hymn before it was a flag.

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

Rich's interpretation centre, a celebrated work of sustainable African architecture.

Commission the full chamber

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

Ask the studio to reconstruct Mapungubwe Interpretation Centre through sustainability — or shift it into another corridor.

Open a commission

Shift the feeling

What if Mapungubwe Interpretation Centre was rebuilt as something else?

Ask the architect

One question. Stay in the room.