GSA_Unit 14 - Studio Journal: Semester 2

UNIT 14 / STUDIO JOURNAL

University of Johannesburg. Graduate School of Architecture. Unit 14 Studio Journal 2016.

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ACT 6.

TRANSLATING SUBSTANCE

4 WEEKS / PLUS 2 WEEKS

RESPONDING TO STORIES / SUBJECTIVITY / PROVOCATION / ARCHITECTURAL EXPLORATIONS / DETAIL SECTIONS / DRAWING THROUGH MODELS

UNIT 14 / STUDIO JOURNAL

University of Johannesburg. Graduate School of Architecture. Unit 14 Studio Journal 2016.

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The real world is unforgiving. there are legal, financial, time, policy, by-law and stakeholder constraints that have the potential to undermine projects. The purpose of this studio is to bring awareness to the very real forces that are present in the current reality. here we choose to ficus specifically around issues of property, markets, ownership, financing. You will observe how property and the economies for different geographies have vastly different logics - yet work none-theless for their constituents. Through understanding some fundamental drivers, you will be better placed to manipulate these for your own agenda. We would like to see how you take fundamental realities and work with them to realise audacious and radical other proposals.

UNIT 14 / STUDIO JOURNAL

DURATION: 2 Week (Individual) POSSIBLE OUTPUT: 1 x Set of plans 1:100, 1 x Operational Illustration, 1 x Mixed media respresentation (atmosphere), 1 x before / after condition REFERENCES: Centre for Affordable Housing Finance in Africa, An estate agent, Department Infrastructure Development Gauteng Provincial Government, City of Johannesburg.

University of Johannesburg. Graduate School of Architecture. Unit 14 Studio Journal 2016.

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UNIT 14 / STUDIO JOURNAL

University of Johannesburg. Graduate School of Architecture. Unit 14 Studio Journal 2016.

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UNIT 14 / STUDIO JOURNAL

University of Johannesburg. Graduate School of Architecture. Unit 14 Studio Journal 2016.

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OUR HOME TO OUR STREET SIMON MANUEL

Masakhane Street in Ivory Park is a major township high street which presents a complex set of local and foreign actors, networks and socio-spatial systems that reconfigure the typical high street into something uniquely post-1994. Here new patterns of co-existence, interdependence and spatial arrangement present themselves through a survivalist yet enterprising tone.

In looking for elements which support change in this irregular, yet opportunist environment, the private residential property presents a unique condition for supporting incremental and human change.

The projects will examine the nature of the Masakhane “high-street” with regards to its specific front of house / back of house conditions with a focus on the socio-spatial relationships that are supported.

The spatial typologies of the township house and its street will be the focus of the investigation through the idea of a “Street Mall.” /6

Our House To Our Street

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Ivory Park “High Street” Investigation

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Socio-Spatial Section of Economies / 11

MALL OF CURIOSITIES TOVA LUBINSKY

“Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else.”

-Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities This project interrogates the inextricable relationship between objects on display and the space in which they occupy and seeks to find a reciprocity between the two.

Space / Display can play a more constructive/fantastical role in reimagining consumer experiences in our socially tense context. I have a deep interest in how subjectivity is constructed through display and objects and how these could be employed in a more political and poetic manner is what concerns this project.

The Johannesburg Art Gallery and King George Street are the sites of this investigation as they demonstrate two of Johannesburg’s contrasting conditions of displayed objects within a close proximity.

My curiosities are put on display by means of model making, sound installation, performance pieces and video creation. These methods of design research allow me to test the bounds of contextualism and objectification through the lens of representation. / 12

MALL OF CURIOSITIES

The Poetics and Politics of Displayed Objects

Tova Lubinsky / 13

Sound Scapes: 8 minutes on King George Street / 8 minutes in the JAG / 14

Objects as Space: Detail Model Photos / 15

THE STORE WINDOW

Looping Plan + Consumption Activities

THE DISPLAY STAIR THE ARCH

CIirculation Street Entrance + Orientation

THE STAGE

Anchor Elements with Arterial Streets + Performance & Attraction

Axonometric Plans: “Mall Logic” / 16

Re-Objectifying Monuments / 17

CONCENTRATED CITY DIALECT 1.0 MANQOBA DLUNGWANE Johannesburg inner-city has transformed itself into a culturally diverse commercial node, with exemplary infrastructure for a transitional point that provides easy access to the rest of the African continent. The project proposes a new form of enterprise which focuses on acquiring knowledge and challenges the conventional approach of how a mall of Africa should perform, by suggesting a socially condensed enterprise through the introduction of passive and active social programmes. The project is proposed in an existing Parkstation transport and retail building which will be enhanced by introducing the following social programmes: Temporary sleeping areas, Public performance and Knowledge sharing. / 18

Identifying Research Site / 19

Park Station Investigation

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1. Micro economic activity

4. Commercial economic activity

c. Luggage trolley pushers

a. Restaurant ommercial branding e. Bus company branding d. Line shop shopfront

2. People activity

i. Sport pub spills onto circulation space

d. People walking fast e. People walking slow & engaging programme h. People sitting and waiting

3. Activity of control j. Security point

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Programme of waiting Single sleeping units Family sleeping units Circulation ramp

Lighting

Bridging elements Public perfomance stage

Anti-consumption programme Public speaking balcony Trading facade Landscape seating area Knowledge acquisition

Exhibition area / Structural support

Stage lighting

Public seating / Meeting area

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Condensation of Economies / 23

LEARNING FROM CORLETT DRIVE johann le roux I am responding to a need for a discussion around the complex organisation of mixed use development in a rapidly urbanising context of Johannesburg and especially the way Melrose Arch is expanding towards its immediate North. An enquiry is made into left over space in between old and new development, which I title ‘uitvalZONES’.

Inspired by the historical means of surveying, on horseback and analogue equipment, I apply this to look for untapped value with the hope that it generates a new ‘uitvalgrond’ to develop something new, much in the same way that Johannesburg was established.

Through the method of making a series of tools to determine the value of Corlett Drive, the enquiry leads to the design of a mall of ‘hyperCHOICE’ and ‘hyperOPPORTUNITY’. The idea of creating a choice matrix - as a conceptual strategy to allow for broad participation and user choice & opportunity, allows the future inhabitant of the mall to manipulate the spatial arrangement of their immediate environment through the means of a participation tool.

The project proposes a super infrastructure of real-estate that encourages infinite choice/liveability over a section of Corlett Drive.

In addition, the proposal comprises of the idea of space/programme linking to support the resilience of maginalised individuals. / 24

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Selection Tool - Field Participation

Search for UitvalGROND

Created Tools / 26

Board Game - Simplifying Field Participation

an observation

Results of Observation - Space Occupation Through Choice & Opportunity / 27

New Conditions

Make Your Selection / 28

HyperCHOICE & HyperOPPORTUNITY - A Scenario

Developmental Growth / 29

IDEAL UTOPIAN JOHANNESBURG (in)secure futures VICTOR MARTINS From semester one I challenged the idea of testing possibilities of unlikely spatial stories and brought this through to my major design project in semester two. This led to speculating an idea of challenging a major aspect we face in our entire country – SECURITY. It is a sensitive subject, but it is something we are part of and encounter daily on various levels. This could be through physical protection, security in an enterprise and how security measures can influence investment, economy and ensuring a business can sustain a lifespan and development for the future.

My idea is to develop a strategy that consists of phases that can be built up to counteract crime and security levels and sustain an economy. Then detach itself once this ideal utopian Johannesburg is achieved. The architecture that is left behind will be a representation of what crime was about in the distant past. / 30

The Ideal New Joburg / 31

Influential Context / 32

Tactics / 33

Activation / 34

ideal Utopia / 35

THE WEIGHTING AISLE NATACHE SYLVIA IILONGA My study’s overarching aim is about inverting power associated to image, and in particular, hair’s contribution to image based standards. Aiming to render the powerful, powerless to the point of empathy; and the powerless, powerful to a point of freedom. A trade space. Embodying five main spatial experiences that would engage the trading of reactions as a commodity.

The project sought to speculate a space of perceived normality around black hair, in which power is taken by those with black hair through the use of key spatial experiences manifesting on the site of the check -out aisle.

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Space Speculation / 37

Rea Vaya Busstation SABC Media Park 15:35

Rea Vaya Busstation Parkstation

Noord Street

13:01

Rea Vaya Busstation Parkstation

15:57 Auckland Park, Johannesburg

Parkstation

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Salon City

Parkstation

12:50 13:17 15:55

Rea Vaya Busstation SABC Media Park

University of Johannesburg APB Campus

12:43

15:39

University of Johannesburg APB Campus Auckland Park, Johannesburg Key:

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Auckland Park, Johannesburg

CBD, Johannesburg

CBD, Johannesburg

Train Transport Bus Transport Street Walking Destination Walking Area location Interaction

Auckland Park, Johannesburg

CBD, Johannesburg

6.TWO.GROUNDING Natache Iilonga

My Hair’s Journey Through Space

WHICH HAIR IS BETTER FOR WHERE? SURVEY INTERVIEWS 3 x Hair Salons 24 interviews

Global Hair Product Industry

PERCEIVED PLACE & POWER OF PRIVATE/PUBLIC HAIR SPACES

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40%

Corporate Workplace

At Home

“It’s just unprofessional and not neat.

That is why there is an option to put in a weave or relax it. Or even just straighten it,.”

Weave-in Afro

Aim: Caucasian Loose hair

Psychological

Power of Natural Black Hair

Natural Straightened

Brazilian Weave-in

Brazilian Weave-in

Hair Wholesalers Natural unkept

City/ Urban racial/gender demographic indicator

Black Hair Salon

Chemically Relaxed Natural Hair

Social Power & Pressure

Hairdressing Salons semi-public space

Rosebank Mall

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“ Yes, because you put in effort to make sure your hair looks presentable and nice.”

Interview #2 public space

Hairdressing Salons “ Good hair is healthy hair. So all hair is good hair. We are here for business but we can do all types of hair.”

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Interview #9 semi-private space

Rosebank Mall

At Home “Because nobody can see you, it doesn’t matter how you look.”

Incubator of beauty perceptions

Natural Protective Styling - Twist out

In relation to the city MIND Map of Spatial Exploration of Hair

Chemical Hair relaxing

Interview Perceived Social Value of Hair Types to Space

Hair Weave & Extensions Industry

Interview #21 Natural Stretched Afro

Hierarchy of spatial power influence on perception of natural hair

Spatial Pre-assumptions

Corporate Workplace

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Natural Protective Styling - Bantu

Natural Protective Styling - Twaists

Interview #4

Natural Protective Styling - Locs

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My Hair in Public Space

6.TWO.GROUNDING Natache Iilonga

Hair Values & Categorisation in Space

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“Hair, in its common everydayness, is easy to ignore. Hair is seen as fashion, as frivolous and indulgent.

However, deep within the common lies the personal spaces that hair alludes to.” - Kira Kemper

Artistic Expression

Media’s Hair Landscape (Digital Media) Braid SewIn

PRIMETIME HOURS

Locs

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Andre Walker Hair Typing

3b 3a 2c 2b 2a Weave Relaxed

No Appearance

1c 1b 1a Radius

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Frequent Appearance 6.TWO.GROUNDING Natache Iilonga

Research Techniques And Methods Include Mapping, Questionnaire Data Collection And Media Mapping / 39

Queue exits for relief

Waiting alone vs with someone -Impatience Final Experience -Annoyance

Beat/ not beating experiences -Anxiety

Queue exits for relief

Distraction -Frustration

Sense of Fairness -uncertainty

Queue exits for relief

Enclosed relief spaces

Dividing Screen Counter cash in

White Hair Queue Viewers - Cashiers

Black Hair Queue

White Hair Exit Floor gap Counter cash in

Segregated entry because of hair

Black Hair Exit

Black Hair queue as shorter and faster moving

Realisation of treatment deserved because of hair type The Weighting Aisle: Scene 2 - Distraction

6.FOUR.NEGOTIATION Natache Iilonga

The Weighting Aisle: Scene 3 - Beat/ not beating experiences

6.FOUR.NEGOTIATION Natache Iilonga

The Weighting Aisle: Scene 5 - Final experience

6.FOUR.NEGOTIATION Natache Iilonga

Deprived Fatigue

Taunting Counter cash in

Taunting

The Weighting Aisle: The plan in waiting

Viewers - Cashiers

Don’t Know What’s Coming

Counter cash in Can’t See

White Hair Queue Black Hair Queue

White Hair Exit Floor gap

Measure

Black Hair Exit

Entrance for both hair types

The Weighting Aisle: The Threat of Helplessness

Chris van Wyk – In detention (a rendition) _______________________________________ In retention Her hair was untidy and unprofessional Her hair didn’t fit into a swimming cap Her braids weren’t 10mm in diameter Her hair didn’t fit into a swimming cap Her braids weren’t 10mm in diameter Her hair was untidy and unprofessional Her hair didn’t fit into a swimming cap 10mm in diameter Her braids were unprofessional Her hair didn’t fit and was unprofessional Her braids were unprofessional 10mm in diameter Her hair was untidy 10mm in diameter while braiding Her hair didn’t fit and was unprofessional 10mm in diameter was unprofessional for her braids Her hair didn’t fit 10mm in diameter

Spatialising A Waiting Experience Discriminting Based On Hair / 40 The Weighting Aisle: The experience

6.FOUR.NEGOTIATION Natache Iilonga

Counter cash in

Viewers - Cashiers Counter cash in

White Hair Queue Black Hair Queue

White Hair Exit Black Hair Route In the notion of inverting power based soley on hair, the route of the black woman, to the check-out counters; progresses directly with out any obstructions. Allowing her the privilege of access because of her hair. With strategic interaction points with the white woman hair route. But speaking of a normalised context of power, where black women and their hair now become the audience to the emise of the white woman and her hair.

The Weighting Aisle: Framework of Feelings - Scene 2 - The Humour Character embodying the space of Frustration

Floor gap

Black Hair Exit

Entrance for both hair types

6.FOUR.NEGOTIATION Natache Iilonga

The Weighting Aisle: The black woman’s route to the check-out counter

Distraction

Beat/ not beating experiences

Waiting alone vs with someone Counter cash in Sense of Fairness Viewers - Cashiers Counter cash in

White Hair Queue Black Hair Queue

Final experience

White Hair Exit

White Hair Route The racial dividing of the queues speaks to an Apartheid like sense discrimination, but tables turnt against white hair. Thus, counter-actively, the white hair queue embodies 5 main spatial scenes, of which are manditory to engage in, in order for the white woman to be allowed to check out of the retail space.

This route de-powers white hair by subjecting the white woman to spatial experiences that are curated from black hair social experiences in reality.

The Weighting Aisle: Framework of Feelings - Scene 3 - The Evoker Character embodying the space of Anxiety

Floor gap

Black Hair Exit

Entrance for both hair types

6.FOUR.NEGOTIATION Natache Iilonga

Deprived Fatigue

Taunting Counter cash in

Taunting

The Weighting Aisle: The white woman’s route to the check-out counter

Viewers - Cashiers

Don’t Know What’s Coming

Counter cash in Can’t See

White Hair Queue Black Hair Queue

White Hair Route The white hair queue is further reinforced with the overriding threat of ‘Helplessness’ expressed through the manipulation of the ‘relief spaces’ that connect the 5 main scenes to the eventual conclusion, that is the check out counter.

The white woman is further exploited through a trading of her emotional reactions during the varying spatial experiences.

Whilst the check -out counter attendants as well as the black woman’s queue, watch the spectacle unfold, as he audience.

The Weighting Aisle: Framework of Feelings - Scene 5 - The Provoker Character embodying the space of Annoyance

6.FOUR.NEGOTIATION Natache Iilonga

White Hair Exit Floor gap

Measure

Black Hair Exit

Entrance for both hair types

The Weighting Aisle: The Threat of Helplessness

Spatialising The Emotive Experience Evoked By The Spaces / 41

TRANS | MALL ILSA ARCHILLIES My Major Design Project was initiated to study the relationship between mobility, enterprise and infrastructure.

I identified Noord Street as my research site and developed an understanding of the site through a series of qualitative interviews and visual documentation.

I came to understand that this site is a transitory space through which people move at high volumes. As a result of the transport infrastructure which is Park station and the Wanderers taxi rank.

Having identified the Rea Vaya bus stations in a first semester project as dormant/underutilised state infrastructure which are potentially the catalysts for transit orientated design, I employed the ideas of Transit orientated design and lessons learnt from Noord developing a proposal series ordered by Programmed spaces, Phased Development, and Experience.

My scheme suggests that over a period of time State-aided development could occur around the Rapid bus system. / 42

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Interpreting The Site / 44

Structuring Conditions / 45

Spaces for Intervention / 46

Comissioner Street Re-Imagined / 47

GLITCH_STRATEGIC MANOEUVRES IN SHADOWS OF SURVEILLANCE. ROELOF DE JAGER A scene is never viewed ‘at a glance’ – rather, it is reconstructed via a scanning sequence to complete an almost instantaneous visual reconnaissance of the situation. This visual scanning process is an issue-oriented operation, thus people with different motives and interests will view identical scenes in different ways.

Through a series of investigations and observations regarding the context of hyper-surveillance and economic warfare within Melrose Arch, I aim to strategically negotiate spaces in which a subversive economy can thrive alongside the heavily controlled existing infrastructure.

Keywords: surveillance, strategy, economy, warfare, Melrose Arch / 48

Surveillance Shadows / 49

Selective Surveillance / 50

Stalked Statistics

Material Glitch / 51

Manipulation: Strategies of Hostile/Cryptic/Ephemeral Subversion / 52

Negotiation & Translation: Subversive Economies / 53

NARRATIVES OF RADICAL SUBURBAN FUTURES CARLA GAUM My means of representation is in the form of a book which allowed me to explore the passage of time and the theme of domestic nostalgia which is evident in my site Yeoville.

The idea of repetition of pages and continuously only reading parts of a whole ties into how I experience this suburb.

The book progresses from a vague understanding to a more concrete understanding as my research and access to the Suburb progressed. I started by documenting how I gained access to the suburb and the field work would include identifying 8 different main character types. The unpacking of each character informs my three interventions, themed: domestic densification, the shared community space and optimizing commercial space. / 54

Character: The Add-On Business: Kumo’s Shop. / 55

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Pages from Book / 57

Intervention 1: Domestic Densification / 58

Intervention 3: Optimizing Commercial Space / 59

SOCIO-POLITICAL CATHEDRAL MFUNDO MAGONGO Act 6 is a proposal of juxtaposing the church into hybrid of the divine and machine, which has developed into this idea of a socio-political/economic space with a quest of creating moments which places an individual in a mental space of re-evalutating our present system of values and beliefs. In the process, rooting the ideas and influences of value on certain types of material and branding. For instance, during the establishment of the churches and missions schools, African people suffered suppression of their customs and beliefs. Converted African individuals ended up wearing western clothing, which arguably play a role in the shift of one’s mind, in terms of material value and symbolism.

In addition, the proposal comprises of the idea of space/programme linking to support the resilience of maginalised individuals.

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Access

People and Space / 61

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Genesis ( The Arrival & Influence ) / 63

Space Making (Programme)

Space for Worship / 64

Spaces for Intervention

Exhibition Space / 65

EATOPIA GITA MAKAN What value does food and the practises associated around consumption leads to socialisation and the ultimate user experience? And is this value met with our current utilitarian and mono-functional food courts inhabited in our shopping centres?

Fordsburg has proven to cater for the international guest aiming to experience an eastern flavour. This experience is highlighted through cultural elements with the culinary experience at its peak. Middle eastern, Pakistani, North and South Indian cuisine can be devoured along this stretch of high street... This site embodies the culinary values of domesticity, cultural influences and diversity.

Imagine the value of exposed kitchens allowing all users to engage visually with the kitchens of the world on a micro or macro scale. By exposing these private moments captured in a domestic kitchen – we are able to understand, learn and appreciate the connections between culinary cultures.

This concept aims to drive interest, services, shelter and experience to the culinary opportunities currently available on the Fordsburg Square scene. / 66

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The Kitchen Exploration

The Experience of Food / 68

The Role of the Dining Table / 69

Why is Food Important? / 70

‘Green Space’ On Mint / 71

ETHNIC ECONOMIC ENCLAVES LEBOHANG LETSOISA

Johannesburg Park Station is located between the Central Business District and Braamfontein, it is the largest railway station in Africa with a central railway and a bus station. The precinct acts as Johannesburg’s largest port of entry for both local and foreign commuters, seeing over a million commuters passing through daily and allows for a healthy variety of economic opportunities at various scales.

The aim of this proposal is to examine the history of Park Station in relation to the various forms of racial segregation and integration between local enterprises. By critically proposing the construct of a new “Mall of Africa” and testing the research finding through the design of a spatial system that will support the urban integration between various ethnicities and engage with the current forms of inequalities in Johannesburg in a negotiated, transnational and integrated enterprise system. / 72

The Economics/Cultures Of Parkstation / 73

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FINDING GRUEN SALOME MONYAI “By affording opportunities for social life and recreation in a protected pedestrian environment, by incorporating civic and educational facilities, shopping centres can fill an existing void. They can provide the needed place and opportunity for participation in modern community life that the ancient Greek Agora, the Medieval Market Place and our Town Squares provided in the past.”

(Gruen and Smith 1960, p.24) The essence of my project is to encourage social interactions at the mall. Borrowing from the ideas of social activist Hlumelo Biko of partnership between the private and public sectors, I would like to reclaim a part of Sandton’s privatised “public” space for the public by injecting public activities that could encourage a more diverse user, where shopping is not the sole activity of the mall but also an opportunity to interact with other people. By allowing private and public interests to coexist, it presents an opportunity for diverse social interaction, where people from different walks of life can come together with a common goal. / 78

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Blurred Lines

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Redefining Edges

Inbetween Spaces

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TRADE ANCHORAGE NICHOLAS ABRAHAMS 2019 vision Mayfair a highrise mega city your all in one cosmopolitain mixed use hub .

The site allows for rapid development with rules and guides on how to make the most of your piece of ground or space in the sky. Spacious residential units linked to your own piece of retail trading space allows for ease of use function and space. Customiseable spaces to allow for the smallest of shops with the possibility of growth.

Green streets and corridors create pedestrian friendly cycle tracks and recreational spaces. Sky cars and monorails transporting people in and out of this mega mall. / 84

DOMESTIC ECONOMIES IN MAYFAIR / 85

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Identifying Types / 87

Site Opportunities / 88

Deal Making Patterns / 89

SUPPORT SYSTEM FOR IMMIGRANTS OGUNDARE OLAWALE ISRAEL This project examines the forgotten people of the city, Immigrants, with cognisance to the role they play, and most importantly, how (economy) ecosystems are created within a locality over a period of time.

It examines Nigerians in Randburg as a case study.

As a way forward, in order to understand the growth model of the informal and un-common economy, the ingress of this group of people was studied, including their networks, spatial space required for sustainability, and how a resilient economy is built over time, through a 6-series narrative, graphically illustrated.

The Architectural resolution reached, considered the existing ecosystem and augment the scale of the un – common economy through space mutation, without destroying the existing liveability of the existing ecosystem.

The second approach looked at one of the arms of JDA in revitalising the city.

This model produces an architecture which supports the livelihood of immigrants, as well as the existing neighbourhood, through the concept of re-designing, and occupying of abandoned places, tailored made to support immigrants in an ecosystem. / 90

Connecting New and Existing Anchors / 91

Capturing each Anchor through a 6- series Narrative / 92

Capturing each Anchor through a 6- series Narrative / 93

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Architectural Resolution through Mutation of space / 95

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Anele Mahlahlo

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THANK YOU

The workings and outcomes of UNIT 14 are made possible by the incredible people that are part of and associated with this Unit. We would like to extend special thanks to The University of Johannesburg, UrbanWorks Architecture & Urbansim, Prof. Lesley Lokko, Stephen Hobbs, Prof. Jean-Pierre de la Porte, Tanya Zack, Guy Trangos, Anele Mhlahlo, Bronwyn Kotzen, Sarah Calburn, Dr. Beatrice De Carli, Jason Hobbs, Dr. Alex Frediani, Nolan Dennis, Stephen Steyn, Heinrich Wolff, Bettina Malcomes, Mpho Matsipa, Lindsay Blair Howe, Holger Deppe, Eric Wright, Lorenzo Nassimbeni, Farieda Nazier, our colleagues and friends.

Unit staff: Thiresh Govender Jhono Bennett Tuliza Sindi Unit Fourteen Class of 2016: Nick Abrahams Ilsa Archillies Roelof De Jager Manqoba Dlungwane Carla Gaum Johann Le Roux Natache Iilonga Lebohang Letsoisa Tova Lubinsky Mfundo Magongo Gita Makan Victor Martins Salome Monyai Ogundare Olawayo Israel Manuel Simon

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