legible way . This expression gives form to the activities of the Department , communicating an unmistakeable identity to the public and engendering pride and ownership in their surroundings for the staff of the Department . A new Headquarters for Stats SA designed in this way clearly enables the Department to achieve its Vision and Mission , in a firm and functional facility which actualises the philosophical ambitions of the Department in a modest and appropriate manner .
To accomplish this , besides the technical and functional motivators ever present in successful built environment design , the role of symbolic elements was key in the conceptualisation of the campus . The keys to this symbolism were taken from the Client Brief , and are expressed in a collective whole whose sum is far greater than any of the singular parts .
Statistics : Data , Graphs , and Landscape The form of the building is derived from the literal expression of the Department in gathering information , processing it , and disseminating it in understandable statistics , frequently translated into the pictorial form of graphs . The building finds three-dimensional expression in the shape of gentle staggered zigzags , layered behind each other , each one reaching out into the surrounding landscape tying the building into its surrounds , and each one finding individual identity within the campus being marked with a slightly different angled shape , and clad in a varying colour of the same material . The