Stauch Vorster Architects Port Elizabeth
Landscaping in Port Elizabeth

To be the preferred architectural practice in Africa, offering an inclusive design led service providing creative & viable solutions for our clients. LEAD // We empower our people across specialist fields to become industry leaders. We apply expert knowledge to lead our clients towards creative and viable solutions. We actively explore innovative technologies to change the future of how we build. BUILD // We build relationships in diverse industries to benefit our clients and unlock project opportunities. We build careers through empowerment and continuous learning. DESIGN // We streamline our business through continuous business process improvement. To facilitate the company’s growth opportunities, SVA embarked on the search for an appropriate investment partner. This resulted in a majority shareholding investment by GIBB, a leading South African multi-disciplinary engineering company, and the formation of SVA International (Pty) Ltd. SVA International remains a fully independent architectural practice, enhanced with majority black ownership and a qualified B-BBEE rating. Our long-standing alliances and relationships with clients and colleagues continue, while a more comprehensive service and permanent presences in major African centres are offered. This strengthens the position of the practice as a leader in providing multi-disciplinary architectural services to both private and public sector development throughout the continent. SVA International is committed to sustainable design and construction, through an integrated approach involving the full project team. We aim to achieve tangible environmental outcomes appropriate to the context that earn Green Star ratings while also appreciating the values of property and income. SVA International is a majority black-owned company with a qualified B-BBEE rating. Transformation also entails positioning the company strategically so that if legislative, demographic or policy changes occur, these will not affect company performance. It also has a particular focus on identifying promising talent from previously disadvantaged groups. Junior managers from these groups can also participate in a special share scheme, adding further motivation to become future leaders of the company, and the industry. SVA International has been delivering specialist urban design services to both the public and private sector since This includes development frameworks, master plans, detailed precinct plans, design codes and development guidelines. Our urban design approach aims to create people places that enrich the city. We focus on facilitating good flow and connectivity for the hierarchy of urban transit modes. With an understanding of appropriate ecological urbanism, we design adaptable, resilient environments that accommodate future change. Using various techniques, ranging from hand-drawn vision sketches to accurate technical 3D computer models, we engage in the appropriate massing of buildings to achieve streets, squares, boulevards and parks of suitable size and proportion, resulting in enjoyable human cityscapes. We do this considering the sensory experience of people who will be moving through planned public and semi-public urban spaces, while including the ambitions and requirements of the private end-user.