ANALYSIS

Existing Policy and Development Plan

Architecture very often became servant to processes that placethe operations of the city in the hands of the few through its subsummation into imperatives of capital accumulation. Government policy now tends to serve this end and the idea of using housing as a key determinant in the formation of new societal ideas has been reduced to managerialist strategy. Recognising what capitalist “development” had taken away from architecture and the city as a means of collective integration, Tafuri was to note that a public, once represented in the image of the city through the residential cell, was no longer “critically participant in the act of creation.” In this regard, in the space of forty years, the architecture of housing has shifted from being part of a mission for social reform to being part of a political philosophy that recognises only the laws and logics of markets and individual propertyproprietarianism. The architect’s primary role is the creation of a commodity-form. You will discover and analyse the existing development plan for the site and the various policies and pronciples supporting it. Your eventualy proposition will push against this plan, but in order to do this, you should have a thorough critical understanding of it.