Cross-Ways Dairy 

The dairy design was our 2nd design for the year. the brief required us to come up with a modern tech dairy  that will be milking a heard of 500 cows twice a day. 

The existing site is on the Crossways Farm Village, where they have an existing old dairy that needs to be replaced. With a beautiful mountain to the north and a moderate slop ground level with stunning green grass lands covering the surroundings.

 After so in depth research on the different  needs and requirements of a modern dairy, I then went on to a number of site visits. This was grate for my research on how to see, first hand, how working dairy's in South Africa are designed and constructed. Speaking to the farms and asking them on the good and bad aspects of there dairy's so that I now can accommodate there in-site into my design so that it can now work efficiently and effectively.

The Design  

I want the stick into the concept of the farm and the way and life of a farmer with a public approach and sensitivity. I have shown this is the different spatial  functions and areas. My use of raw material such as water, on site stone, metal sheeting and timber was use to tie into the concept of Farm (off site).

The design was structured around the 60 seater rotary, as the main axis pull off and around the strong cycler form. the public side is show by the main court yard space the spills out onto the grass land then up onto the mountain view. All of the public activities (milk bar, coffee chop & expo space) feed off the court yard.