Hello all! This is my first time using Pinmapple so I hope that I am doing it right! All these photos were taken by me on my camera phone!
Zeitz Mocca is a striking building that is easy to spot as you drive into Cape Town's Waterfront area. This is at the Cape Town docks where the tourist area has encroached on the working docks area. This museum was opened in 2017 and it is specifically a non-profit art museum.
But do not fret, I cannot show you the art in my photos. That's someone else's IP. This post and my pictures are however focused on the building itself and the architecture involved!
This structure was actually originally a Grain Silo built in the 1920s! They took this very industrial building and turned it into a literal work of art. It houses a museum, a hotel, and a restaurant!
As you can see the area around the sile is now also part of the tourist attractions in the V&A Waterfront with shops, restaurants and hotels being its nearest neighbors.
Above is the entrance shed structure that leads to the entrance of the silo/museum. These gates "1" and "2" would be where trucks would drive in to collect and deliver grain. This silo was likely used to house grain before shipping it out of the country.
This front area have a lot of the origional machinery that was used in the Silo.
Inside we can see that this tightly packed collection of silo tubes were cut away to make a sort of honey-comb effect! Not only did they cross section this structure, they did it in a bubble curve! Amazing!
Look at those long curved cuts. This is really hard concrete but this would have needed to be cut and observed over a period of time to get it so smooth and uniform!
Above is what you will see if you right to the top. Those glass panes are what keeps the rain out of the tube structures I show further up! This is right next to the restaurant. Don't worry, it is safe to walk over!
There you can see my boot...
Here you can look in the direction of the Metro and Table Mountain beyond. On the other side of this, it looks out onto the ocean.
The structure still goes up from here, but this section is the hotel. Very distinctively is the steelwork and glass windows that make bubbles. Together with the rounding of the outside silo structures, this is a structure that stands out due to those many curves on its surface.
A view of Table Mountain!
Unfortunately, this is not exactly a view that any visitor would be able to see from the museum. I was able to go onto the roof because of work! This is what you can expect on a clear winter day. Usually Cape Town gets a lot of rain during the winter, in between you still get wonderful days like this!
Thank you for checking out my first location pinned in Pinmapple! Hopefully I can add many more!
Cheers!
