Urban design, planning, landscape and cartography, grounded in place.
34 Degrees Design helps developers, municipalities, architects, institutions, hospitality clients and private landowners create more connected, legible and meaningful places.
The practice works at the intersection of urban design, planning, landscape, public realm, spatial analysis and cartography. Its strength lies in reading places across scales: from region to town, from precinct to street, from terrain to movement network, and from public space to lived experience.
Led by Andres de Wet, the practice combines South African grounding with international experience across public-sector planning, urban revitalisation, academic teaching, multidisciplinary design studios, real-estate advisory forums and large-scale spatial frameworks.
The result is design work that is strategic, visually clear and grounded in the specific character of place.
A selection of professional, advisory and cartographic work is available to view.
Services
- Urban design & placemaking
Town centre revitalisation, streetscape and public-realm design, civic space, and heritage-sensitive urban design — at the scale where people actually experience a place.
- Planning & development visioning
Long-range spatial frameworks, campus and precinct masterplanning, land-use structure, phasing and implementation strategy — clarifying what a place could become and how it gets there.
- Transport, mobility & connectivity planning
Transit-oriented development, non-motorised transport, regional corridor and freight planning, and the retrofit of movement infrastructure that has divided a place rather than served it.
- Spatial analysis, GIS & cartography
Evidence-based reading of terrain, settlement, movement and landscape systems — and the cartographic work that makes a spatial condition visible enough to decide on.
Also part of the work
Landscape & place-based design
Design grounded in landform, ecology, climate, vegetation, settlement history and regional identity — treated as a structuring system rather than decoration, and present in every service above.
Design review & advisory
Independent input on spatial quality, public realm, connectivity, landscape integration and sense of place, for developers, architects, municipalities or institutions needing an external perspective before advancing a plan.
Who the practice works with
- Developers
- Architects
- Municipalities
- Planning firms
- Institutions
- Private landowners
- Hospitality clients
- Public-realm clients
- Place-making & destination projects
Selected experience
View portfolio →- Urban revitalisation and public-realm work in Worcester and Rawsonville, Western Cape
- Campus-scale and precinct-level masterplanning for public-sector clients in the United States
- Urban design teaching at the University of Washington Tacoma
- Technical Assistance Panels through the Urban Land Institute Northwest
- Mixed-use aerotropolis masterplanning near Schiphol Airport, Amsterdam
- Urban design thesis work on reconnecting Toronto’s city centre and waterfront
- Award-winning downtown revitalisation and masterplanning work in Georgetown, Kentucky
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