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A WORD FROM THE REGISTRAR

OTHER notions and OTHER materiality.

Dear Students, ‘Architecture OTHERwhere’ team members, and fellow architects,

This year the UIA 2014 ‘Architecture OTHERwhere’ Durban International Student Competition had an overwhelming global response with 478 registrations, from 51 countries. What initially commenced at a snails pace, eventually transgressed into a tsunami of global registrations, representative of the literal ‘four corners’ of the globe.

As thematic the ‘OTHERwhere’ notion posed a tremendous challenge to all entrants. First, the mere theoretical hybridization and intricacy associated to the notion of ‘OTHERwhere’ challenged thinking, design criticality and innovation of both local and international students. Secondly, although presented with a highly geopolitical and locally driven design question and site, the thematic destabilized conventionality within spatial and design inquiry, eradicating contextual familiarity to a problem, which is, in Manuel Castells words, a ‘ Non-Global-Global’ problématique. Thirdly, the brief in essence presented a call for ideas and their possible materialization more than a call for a particular archetypical and standard driven solution of how architecture is supposed to function, erasing all forms of conventional typologies and spatial topographies. And conclusively, as part of the ‘OTHERwhere’ concept the brief demanded ‘scalar’ thinking through its simultaneity within small, medium and large scales as a means to become proactive within the levels of projective practices and strategy formulation.

As jury the task was equally as challenging. A three-day program was devised to facilitate a 3 phase adjudicating methodology, consisting of (1) familiarization of the submitted student work, (2) process of selected elimination and (3) a final stage focussed on selecting the finalists. Integrity, transparency and compliance of each phase was ensured through a visual confirmation by the entire jury of both selected as well as eliminated projects. The gruelling process of screening, critiquing and scrutinizing each page to examine all levels and scales, various details and ‘unpack’ conceptual ideas caused for additional hours of debate. Although the processes exposed contradictory and opposing moments of adjudication, it can be stated that the jury unanimously concurred with the selection of the 15 finalists.

As registrar I would like to congratulate the 15 finalists and their respective advisors for their dedication and the commitment shown to the ‘Architecture OTHERwhere’ UIA 2014 International Student competition – 12 teams from China and a team from Lebanon, South Africa and France respectively. I further would like to extend this congratulatory note to the 9 Merit Projects of the competition. In addition, I would like to thank the following individuals and organization for their help in facilitating the adjudication process; The entire Jury; Ms.Tasmi Quazi (South Africa), Mr. Luyanda Mphahlwa (South Africa), Mr. Joe Osae-Addo (Ghana); Ms. Marianela Jiménez Calderón (Panama), Mrs Monica Albonica (South Africa), Professor Rahul Mehrotra (USA) and Professor Iain Low (South Africa). The UIA 2014 General Reporter, Associate Professor Dr. Amira Osman for all her assistance and encouragement during the entire process. Mrs. Brigit Horner (UKZN – Department of Architecture, Planning and Housing) for allowing the jury the use of the university facilities and architecture studios for the first adjudication round. Ms. Tasmi Quasi (NPO AsiyeeTafuleni) for the informative tour of Warwick Junction and exhibition spaces at NPO AsiyeeTafuleni (Warwick). Ms. Nikita Andrews, Ms. Nomfundo Nxumalo and Mrs. Kerry Firmani (Turners Conference) for their assistance during the entire competition process.

This booklet encapsulates the student competition process and selected student work. Captured within is a transparent overview of the competition brief, jury composition, adjudication report, detailed descriptions of the selected 15 finalists and an abbreviated summary of the 9 projects of merit.

I trust that the notion of ‘OTHERwhere’ was not only instrumental in challenging design and cultural beliefs but that the notion of ‘OTHERwhere’ further facilitated an intercultural link between ideas, diversity and our global citizenship.

Dr.ir. Gerhard Bruyns - Registrar

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01 UIA 2014 International Student Competition – introduction The UIA 2014 International Student Competition explores WARWICK JUNCTION, a unique location within central Durban. This vibrant transport node provides a setting for predominantly informal traders at an unprecedented scale. The competition aims to recognize the complex systemic ecology that underpins the economic, cultural and social dynamics inherent to this area, and to find ways to strengthen reinforce or expand these systems in a beneficial way. Drawing from the three UIA 2014 Congress sub-themes of RESILIENCE, ECOLOGY, VALUES, this competition aims to explore OTHER practice, crossovers between OTHER disciplines, and an engagement with OTHER urban dwellers.

The competition encourages the exposure of OTHER city layers, bringing to light OTHER views and OTHER ways of inhabiting the city - through architectural interventions, which should improve the daily experiences of urban dwellers. In addition, the fostering of a long-term collaborative relationship between the architectural profession, government, communities and relevant development partners should be seen as a key aim. Finally, the competition brief makes allowance for inspiration to be drawn from global charters and contemporary enterprises - specifically, the COP 17 Built Environment Charter.

02 UIA 2014 International Student Competition - background and context The 25th International Union of Architects World Congress on Architecture, UIA 2014 Durban,will be held at the International Convention Centre in Durban from 3-7 August 2014. This is the first time that this Congress is being held in Southern Africa and delegates are expected from around the world. The selection of the Congress host city is made six years in advance. At the UIA 2008 Torino Congress, the South African Institute of Architects (SAIA) won the bid to host this triennial World Congress with the support of the national Department of Public Works, barely nine years after SAIA’s post-Democracy readmission to the UIA. Globally, the field of architecture is being challenged with the question of investigating and harnessing alternative modes of living and alternative forms of dwelling. UIA 2014 Durban invites architects, architectural students, built environment and design professionals, activists and thought leaders, and communities from around the world to celebrate Durban and its unique place in the global world system. In light of ‘looking elsewhere for other ways of creating a better future’, the diverse and multi-layered nature of Durban has guided the development of the Congress themes and the UIA 2014 International Student Competition. Durban is a sophisticated cosmopolitan city of over three million people - a city where east meets west – the home of Africa's best managed, busiest port. With Durban as a living laboratory and testing ground, the question of OTHERWHERE is relevant as a conceptual grounding for a student competition. OTHERWHERE reinforces the idea that different lifestyles and beliefs (philosophical, religious and cultural), different ways of doing, different ways of [co]inhabiting the city, and the many forms of integration which exist, all contribute to the unique identity of Durban - which the Congress and the Competition have set out to emphasize and celebrate in various forms.

03 UIA 2014 Durban - thematic framework eThekwini, as a well-connected city-region with significant infrastructure nodes and agentsthat operate within and through the city, has created its own specific urban context. Within this context, the UIA 2014 Student Competition identifies a need for project[s] to respond to these city dynamics, urban agents and their specific agency.

The first UIA 2014 sub-theme is RESILIENCE, explored through the ideas of EMERGENCE, POVERTY ALLEVIATION, and SPATIAL and GEO-POLITICAL ECONOMIES. Resilience is defined as life strategies developed by communities; critical interventions that contribute to poverty alleviation; and the important role of government investment towards re-configuring the spatial economy to the benefit of all. While some of these ideas will delve into South African problems and solutions, their significance finds voice within all forms of architecture and development practices globally.

The second UIA 2014 sub-theme is ECOLOGY, encompassing ideas such as TIME, EVOLUTION, SYSTEMS, PROCESSES and ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS. Ecology acknowledges the role of the architect in a bigger, interlinked, and systemic network - thus encouraging a long-term design perspective. Time, as part andparcel of the design and decision-making process, is perceived as crucial to the future of architecture. Evolution, intrinsically linked to the concept of time, requires processes of architectural production that acknowledge people and place. Interventions should aim

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to understand the city as an ecosystem that requires sensitivity to maintain existing systems in a balanced way. By preventing urban sprawl and incorporating agricultural production in and around cities, desertification can be prevented while providing shelter for threatened species in urban areas.

VALUES is the third sub-theme at UIA 2014 and includes ideas addressing the specific notions of ARCHITECTURAL PRACTICE AND EDUCATION. UIA 2014 will explore practice to address highly specific developmental problems, and question traditional in relation to contemporary values. In striving to establish a new relationship with a living planet, humility is essential and most importantly, a sense of respect through diversity. The UIA 2014 Congress intends to organize collaborative interactive education platforms for communities and professionals. Platforms are meant to re-assess professional values, develop methods and techniques for professional engagement, and interrogate the ethics associated with architectural and design practice.

In the light of these themes, the student competition is meant to explore and translate these notions into a project proposal, which aims to suggest processes of intervention and models of community participation.

04 Competition Site 29° 51' 34.9236" S 31° 0' 51.8544" E Like other South African cities, Durban’s morphology is marred by a condition of fragmentation. This fragmentation results in a socially and physically segregated city where the city centre, Durban’s historic white suburbs and black townships appear insulated from each other. This is the legacy of the spatial engineering of Apartheid, later reinforced by post-Apartheid housing policies. By investing in large-scale township housing projects, the democratically elected South African government, unwittingly, further exacerbated the economic disadvantage of a large percentage of South Africans.

Parallel to this condition are environmental disadvantages due to the extensive sprawl, poor infrastructure and limits to urban mobility. Transportation nodes are a crucial link between peripheral conditions and Durban’s current polycentric structure. They define places of interaction where very different worlds “collide”. Warwick Junction, in central Durban, exists as one such colliding world with unique qualities and at an unprecedented scale.

Almost half a million users pass through Warwick Station on any typical day. As a transportation junction, it provides commercial opportunities for approximately 6000 traders. Research indicates that the financial capital in circulation within Warwick Junction’s trading system equates to the capital flows of Durban’s city centre or to any of its major shopping malls. It is a place that continues to thrive despite the various challenges faced by its users and inhabitants. Although different to the formal commercial and economic systems within Durban, Warwick Junction stands as an example of a place where the formal and the informal exist in complete unison. With 9 specific markets [Victoria Street market, Mpepho (traditional incense) and Lime market, Brook Street market, Bead and Herb market, Music Bridge market, Berea market, Early Morning and Bovine Head market] one is struck by the noise, the “hustle and bustle”, smells and crowds, constant movement and density of activity that happens in a relatively small part of the city.

A quieter part of the complex is found in the muthi market (traditional medicines). Located on a flyover pedestrian bridge that slopes across the area, the muthi market exemplifies the crossover between culturally specific medical practices, local beliefs and their commercialization. At the same time, it stands as an example of an existing social division within South African cultures, social groups and beliefs.

Special reference should be made to the Brook Street Cemetery, adjacent to Warwick Junction.

Bordering Brook Street, Theatre Lane and Joseph Ndluli streets, and adjacent to the main market, the cemetery is of prime historical significance. It represents a communal place of burial for Muslim, Parsee, Jewish and Christian denominations. In addition, the cemetery has prominence as the burial place of Badsha Peer, a revered Muslim figure in Durban.

Spatially, the cemetery is an island within the city, although it is physically connected to the main activities of the market through a steel shed constructed over Brook Street. As an architectural type, the shed acts as interface mechanism through its emphasis on the main cemetery entrance, and provides shade for daily small market stalls in this particular urban connection, as well as for an annual religious procession. Mostly used for taxi parking, the rest of the cemetery’s border context remains largely undefined due to hard tarmac surfaces and surrounding low-rise buildings.

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Witnessing this distinctiveness and difference, the question arises of the role that space plays in a critique of this place-space structure. Is Warwick Junction’s diversity and contrast to be encouraged, celebrated, or bridged? If so, through what means and in what terms?

The question of what role Warwick Junction’s spatial-economic complex plays within the urban framework of Durban is crucial. Beyond traditional problems of borders, edges and aspects of urban program, Warwick Junction’s place as an informal commercial centre, tucked alongside a broader commercial structure, needs interrogation. For instance, how does the superficially chaotic informal sector become integrated with the linear, seemingly ordered configuration of businesses found along bordering streets?

Other questions can be raised in relation to Warwick Junction’s physical centrality, as node and landmark within the city, or its apparent lack of such significance. Historical and cultural memories of the place and kerb-side agencies claimed by traders invite examination of conditions found on the periphery of the various markets, as well as the scope and scale of prior interventions, while simultaneously emphasising possiblecrossovers between spatial design and the facilitation of alternative urban development practices.

05 Big Visions - Small Interventions The competition brief requires three products: a) the development of a LONG-TERM - LARGE SCALE vision for WARWICK JUNCTION b) the development of a MEDIUM TERM - MEDIUM SCALE INTERVENTION on one edge of the

BROOK STREET CEMETERY c) a SHORT TERM/IMMEDIATE - SMALL SCALE INTERVENTION as urban catalyst in WARWICK JUNCTION The focus of the competition will fall on OTHER ways of critiquing, arguing and interacting with the problem beyond the confines of the architectural studio / office, beyond the confines of architectural literature, orbeyond the conventional parameters of architectural professional practice. Emphasis will be placed onseeking solutions within OTHER unexpected places, local knowledge, habits, traditions, movement networks, evolving habits and highly specific perspectives and how these directly impact architectural materialization, in terms of concept, orientation, tectonics and embedded or external technologies.

5.1 Long Term - Large Scale Intervention Long-term visions are to be seen as useful instruments in contemporary planning practices to help establish the desires and aims of any project. Embodiment of long-term visions may materialize goals and desires within social, spatial, financial, or political strategies, or a combination of the above mentioned domains. Visions may include a number of scales and cover a large portion of any city or cities. A conceptual design of a larger urban developmental framework for the region of Warwick Junction would be interpreted as a pivotal point of departure. This vision will also demand an understanding of Durban and its particular structure and dynamics in order to understand Warwick Junction in its given context. Focus within the framework needs to be given to the urban and regional characteristics, which may include: i. Formal and morphological [urban] landscape; edges, borders, nodes, polycentric structures

and urban networks ii. Socio-economic user groups: forms, structures and strategies of commercial enterprise, user

groups, trade and financial systems iii. Spatial-temporal practices: commerce, daily life, trade strategies, day / night processes. iv. Religious and cultural traditions v. Developmental strategies and urban policies: governance, municipal regulations, city and

regional policies Presentation products: 1 x A1 Poster

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5.2 Medium Term - Medium Scale Intervention As a sub component of the first LONG-TERM vision, MEDIUM TERM INTERVENTION is meant to focus on one identified edge of Warwick Junction - to be selected by the competition entrants. At this scale, the aim is to explore and focus on the relationship between an immediate site / edge and the developmental strategies as identified in the LONG TERM INTERVENTIONS. i. Materialization of the MEDIUM SCALE STRATEGIES have to include a spatial proposal of an

urban / landscape program for the identified edge questioning the idea of OTHERNESS. It is advised to explore mixed use and the crossover of programs, time, agents and possible

architectural structures within the materialization process ii. As part of the submitted entry, the individual teams have to put forward a brief advisory text

(500 words or less), which should outline and define suggestions to the client elaborating on

implementation, processes, cycles and the implementation of the various architectural

products. This should be a part of the submitted poster for this component of the project. The

focus is on graphic communication iii. See section 1.3 for further information relevant to this medium term, medium scale

interventionand possible programmes to be accommodated. It is acceptable that some

project teams may elect to focus on one particular need identified within the area - as long as

they demonstrate an understanding of the diversity and complexity of Warwick.

Presentation products: 1 x A1 Poster 5.3 Short Term- Small Scale Intervention Project teams are, as final requirement to the brief, required to suggest an immediate implementable intervention on the selected edge as defined within the MEDIUM SCALE INTERVENTION. Using the LONG and MEDIUM SCALE INTERVENTIONS as developmental guides, the small, low-cost project would act as a catalyst for achieving the urban goals in the long term. It simultaneously presents a moment of opportunity to rethink the role, effects and agency that architecture and architectural practice still hold within the city. Whether the catalyst is seen as a singular entity or as part of a collective, the SMALL SCALE INTERVENTION should be conceived within the limits of: i. Budgetary constraints ii. Period of implementation [which may not exceed 1 week] iii. Life expectation of the catalyst iv. Links to OTHER elements, agencies and processes v. Stakeholders / Partners / Agencies which will help contribute to the project Presentation products: 1 x A1 Poster 06 Unique NEEDS within the Warwick Junction Area While the above components of the project are to be considered in a holistic and integrated manner with a view to supporting and improving the daily conditions for users and passers-by through Warwick Junction, there are some very unique NEEDS and challenges that emerge that need special consideration in the development of the projects. These NEEDS must be reflected in the programming for MEDIUM TERM - MEDIUM SCALE INTERVENTION, but must also be addressed in the proposals for the long term and short-term interventions. There are listed as follows: 6.1 Affordable And Short-Term Accommodation Many people travel to trade at Warwick Junction, and many people sleep in the area and the surrounding areas. There is a need for short-term, affordable accommodation options. “Rent-a-bed” or traders sleeping next to/above their trading stalls are possible solutions to be considered. How could this be managed in a manner that provides an efficient solution, but at the same time achieves dignity and good quality service to the users?

6.2 Innovative Service Systems The apparent disrepair of amenities such as the ablution blocks is testament to the ambivalent view given to Warwick - and all informal settlements/activities. The strong stench emerging from the ablution blocks and wastewater on the streets in some sections of Warwick are issues that need immediate remedial action. But how is that to be addressed? Can the city service network be upgraded or should the area aim to become a “closed-loop” system where minimum resources are drawn from the grid and minimum waste sent back into the city?

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07 Suggested Project Client/S While this project will assume a consortium of clients, the eThekweni Municipality (City Architects Division) is the assumed main client. Below is a statement from Durban City Architects regarding the competition: “The City Architects’ enabling involvement in the Warwick area had its genesis in 1992 when squatters moved into the area, particularly building shacks on the then disused freeway where the Muthi Market was later built. The realisation that this area provided an economic foothold for people who are not part of the formal economy and the concomitant responsibility of the City to support informal initiatives, were part of the motivating factors.

Several projects have developed in the area over the past 20 years, many on the basis of creating an intervention, judging its effect, and further planning based on the resulting impact. Ten Markets of Warwick have been developed in the area with varying degrees of infrastructural support. Given intense movement, trade, exchange and engagement in the area plus meaningful interventions, the area is often cited as a hallmark project with many researchers and student projects being developed in the area. The idea of the UIA 2014 Student Competition sited here and connecting with the theme of the Congress makes perfect sense. We look forward to the engagement of students with the area, which is often referred to as the ‘soul of Durban’.”

08 Important Dates June 2013 June to September 2013 31 October 2013 31 March 2014 7 April 2014 May 2014 August 2014

competition announced questions registrations close projects submitted, competition closes adjudication starts shortlisted teams announced winners announced at the UIA 2014 Congress in Durban

09 Consultations with Experts and Availability of Data A number of identified experts will be available online and via the UIA 2014 website www. uia2014durban.org to answer questions about Warwick Junction. This will permit teams who are unable to physically visit the site to be able to develop a better understanding of the site. The registered competition entrants will also have access to data on the site. More information on these and other support for the competition entrants will be announced via the website and emails. Once the students/teams are registered online, they will be able to download additional information to assist them in the design process.

10 Organizer and Implementer of the Uia 2014 Student Competition The International Union of Architects (UIA) is the official organizer of the UIA 2014 student competition.

The South African UIA2014 Organisation Committee for the Congress will oversee the implementation of the competition. The competition is run in conformity with the UNESCO-UIA rules for international architecture and town planning competitions.

11 Registration Process The competition teams or individual entrants must register online, via the UIA 2014 website www. uia2014durban.org. All team members must be listed with contact emails; however a team leader and correspondence person must be identified. The information required includes the architecture school where the entrants are registered as students as well as the school’s physical address. Only entries submitted through the website will be accepted. Only one of the 4 site edges mentioned in section 5 must be selected for the detailed design proposal. Personal data will be used for UIA 2014 purposes only.

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12 Eligibility This competition is limited to students who study architecture (undergraduate and graduate levels).

Copies of Student Identity Cards or documentation proving that each member of the team is a student at the time of submitting the competition entry must be provided on registration. The students may submit projects that were done under the supervision of lecturers at their schools of study.

13 Products and submissions Only students who have registered online and paid their registration fee prior to October 2013 will be permitted to submit entries. All entries must be submitted digitally in PDF format at 300dpi.

Shortlisted candidates will be notified after the initial selection rounds have been completed.

Submission packages are to be submitted in line with the instructions for submission on the UIA 2014 website, with the documents in question to be clearly named by registration number alone.

Submission packages are to include documents in the following order: Document 1: Completed and signed registration form Document 2: Supporting text document to include a project title, concept, description and explanation of low-cost principles applied for the small-scale intervention - as the project entries are expected to be explained graphically as per Documents 3, 4 and 5 below, this document needs to be kept concise and to a maximum of 700 words. This and all following submissions must not include names or affiliation of the students. Include the unique registration number received after the submission of the registration form and payment of the fees.

Document 3: LONG TERM - LARGE SCALE INTERVENTION [Max 1 x A1] Document 4: MEDIUM TERM - MEDIUM SCALE INTERVENTION [Max 1 x A1] Document 5: SHORT TERM / IMMEDIATE - SMALL SCALE INTERVENTION [Max 1 x A1] 14 Judging process This is a competition of design ideas and will be assessed accordingly. The competition closes on the 31st March 2014 when all the submissions must be available on the UIA 2014 online system. During the period 31st March to 7th April 2014, the UIA 2014 entries will be screened in terms of completion, anonymity and adherence to the submission requirements listed in section 11 such as the selection of ONE of the site edges for the medium term, medium-scale intervention. Entries which do not comply will be disqualified at this stage. Adjudication will be anonymous - it is therefore crucial that there are no names of entrants or mention of affiliation in any of the submissions, with the exception of the application form.

The jury will have a first Skype meeting on the 8th of April 2014 and a second meeting (again via Skype) on the 15th April 2014. The intention of these 2 meetings is to select the 15 short-listed projects.

The 15 short-listed entries may be asked to submit additional documents for exhibition purposes. The exhibition will be put up at the UIA 2014 Congress venue. This venue will be closed to the public and anonymity will be maintained with no names or affiliations being displayed on the projects. The jury will again meet in Durban during that weekend and before the opening of the Congress on Sunday the 3rd of August 2014 for the final adjudication process. The jury will assess the entries in terms of the following adjudication criteria: i. Has understanding of the context been achieved? Does the student/team express an

appreciation for the formal and morphological [urban] landscape of Warwick in its unique

Durban location? ii. Does the student/team have an understanding of the context in terms of the user groups and

agents that operate in the area, as well as the patterns of use of space - and have they

articulated how this impacts on the design decision-making processes for the project? iii. Has the MEDIUM SCALE STRATEGY been translated into a proposed architectural scale

intervention on one of the cemetery site edges and has the programme been developed in

accordance with the UNIQUE NEEDS identified in section 4. iv. Is the project innovative in approach at the 3 levels? v. Does it convey an understanding of OTHERWHERE and OTHER PRACTICE? vi. Is it well presented and are the concepts graphically competent?

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15 Application fee The application fee is set at R 500 (South African Rands) per competition project entry. This is payable via credit card or PayFast or EFTto UIA 2014.

Instructions are available on the website: www.uia2014durban.org 16 Competition entry submission method Submissions will be accepted via the UIA 2014 website. A confirmation email will be sent once the entry is uploaded. Before submitting an entry, the individual/team must have already registered online and submitted evidence of student status before the announced deadline. All entries will be given a unique number for anonymity. Submitted entries will be saved by the UIA 2014 team and published in documents only after the adjudication process is complete.

17 Required drawings and language There is no specific scale requirement for the submitted drawings.

The language of the submission is English. The format is Adobe PDF, 3 A1 sized pages, portrait orientation. The applicants who are notified that their projects are shortlisted will be asked to submit for printed material and exhibition purposes (PDF A1 size, 300 dpi). These 3 A1 sheets must include the 3 levels of intervention: LONG TERM - LARGE SCALE INTERVENTION MEDIUM TERM - MEDIUM SCALE INTERVENTION SHORT TERM/IMMEDIATE - SMALL SCALE INTERVENTION The winners will be asked to also prepare a PowerPoint presentation of 10 slides.

18 Copyrights and disclaimer While students/teams/institutes retain copyrights to the projects, the UIA maintain the right to publish the projects. Entries must not infringe on other copyrights - if deemed to do so, they will be disqualified. In the case of any disputes, this is the responsibility of the project entrant - the UIA and the South African UIA 2014 Organisation Committee and Scientific Committee will accept no liability whatsoever. Any legal issues must be discussed with the competition entrants directly. However, if the qualified entrants are proven to have infringed on copyrights of other individuals or agencies, then the project will be disqualified and the UIA 2014 Organisation Committee and Scientific Committee will claim for prize money received and a refund of any other costs covered in good faith by the UIA 2014.

19 Awards The monetary value of the awards is estimated as follows in South African Rands: GOLD R 50Â 000 SILVER R 30Â 000 BRONZE R 20 000 There will be several other awards by various sponsors to be announced at a later date.

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OUTLINE This report offers a brief overview of the history, development and current status of the West/Brook Street Cemetery.

All data will be provided separately for further use. The intended purpose of this report is to offer a broad overview of the cemetery edges in order to supplement the brief for the proposed uia 2014 student competition.

West street cemetery The West Street Cemetery has been used so since as early as 1846, and originally occupied the periphery of the Durban’s early urban edge.

Over the course of Durban’s development the cemetery has occupied an interesting intersection between cultures, religions and race groups in its living and nonliving occupants.

The West Street Cemetery is historically significant in that it is one of the only areas in Durban where four different religious denominations are buried along side one another; Christian, Muslim, Hindi and Jewish burial sites are all located on the grounds.

Mostly notable is the Badsha Peer Mazza, which stands as a shrine to a muslim saint who came to Durban in 1860. Each year since 1943, there has been a veneration ceremony and banquet to acknowledge Badsha Peer, this is a week long ceremony, which culminates in Brook Street Market adjacent to the Shrine.

Currently the negative active urban space that it has created now offers an interesting range of activities, while bordering a diverse set of urban conditions.

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WEST STREET CEMETERY

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edge conditions Brook Street Edge The busiest and most occupied edge, made up of the covered Brook Street Market of Warwick and retails an assortment of consumer goods. At the end of the market the edge becomes an informal taxi pickup with smaller food stands on the pavements.

Theatre Lane Edge Taxi’s waiting and receiving washes from their drivers congeal the street, while informal traders offering small snacks, drinks and shoe repair hug the edges around the main cemetery entrance.

Joseph Nduli Edge This edge opens out onto the busier Joseph Nduli Street, here informal traders sell larger items including luggage and electronic goods. Pedestrians cut across Joseph Nduli to access busier Durban’s inner city.

Monty Naicker Edge The highest velocity traffic and overpass leading to the N3 freeway makes this edge the least active.

There are public telephones at the on the corner and the incoming overpass houses more taxi wash stands, food sellers and other lighter informal activities.

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THEATRE LANE EDGE

JOSEPH NDULI EDGE

MONTY NAICKER EDGE

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ASIYE ETAFULENI'S JOHN & PATRICK: SOCIAL LIAISONS DURING RESEARCH

Asiye eTafuleni is a Non-Profit Organisation which champions Inclusive Urban Planning & Design.

This involves empowering the working poor by enabling their ability to participate in co-developing their working environments. Asiye eTafuleni advocates that investment in urban planning and design interventions, and thoroughly consultative and participatory processes, can set a trajectory for meaningful socio-economic development for informal workers operating in public spaces; and an improved urban experience for all.

Both John and Patrick work for Asiye eTafuleni and are intimately involved in the support of the various networks that make up the ecosystem of Warwick’s Markets. It is crucial while working in delicate social networks, such as the Warwick Triangle, to work with and through social agents and social framework such as Asiye’s eTafuleni.

A simple spatially orientated questionnaire was arranged and the same basic question set was asked to the various role players on the edge’s. John & Patrick explained to each interviewee and many other people the nature of the project, and the intention of the questionnaire so as not to create any false expectation or confusion.

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STREET TRADER (NOMBEKO)

What do you do, how do you use this space?

I sell fruits, vegetables and snacks to people. I have my shop here in this space.

How is this space good for your work?

The taxi drivers and their passengers provide business. The pedestrians between buy lots as well. It is close to the train station and is always busy.

How is this space bad for your work?

There is no shelter for me or my customers and its get very hot or very wet. People also steal my pallet (table).

Would you rather work somewhere else in this or another area?

Yes, inside the market space would be better.

What would make this space better for you?

I would like a space to store my fruits and vegetables when I am not here, a lock up facility. I would like more space as well.

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TAXI WASHER/REPAIRMAN (LWAZI XABA)

What do you do, how do you use this space?

I wash and fix taxis. We wash and repair the minibus taxis in this space.

How is this space good for your work?

It is a specific space to wash taxi’s, everyone knows this. There are only 7 Taxi Washers here.

How is this space bad for your work?

The police sometimes confiscate our washing buckets and sponges, and give us a fine for not having a license (R50 - R100) Would you rather work somewhere else in this or another area?

No, this is the space for us!

What would make this space better for you?

Better place to collect water, a place that is closer.

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TAXI CONDUCTOR (TSCAPA)

What do you do, how do you use this space?

I call people for the taxi, and manage the lines to get into the minibuses.

How is this space good for your work?

It is a good place between the station and the city.

How is this space bad for your work?

It is ok.

Would you rather work somewhere else in this or another area?

No. What would make this space better for you?

It would be nice if it was cleaner.

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FOOD TRADER (CAROL SHANDU)

What do you do, how do you use this space?

I cook and sell lunchtime food to the taxi drivers and to the people who walk past. I only sell at lunch, because I have to look after my granddaughter and help her get ready for school each morning.

How is this space good for your work?

It is close to the toilets, sheltered from the sun and rain under the freeway overpass and lots of people walk past here.

How is this space bad for your work?

There is no access to water, and I have to pay someone to watch my stand or fetch water.

Would you rather work somewhere else in this or another area?

No, this space works for us.

What would make this space better for you?

I would like a big sign and a shop that has my name painted on it to tell everyone where I am and that I sell good food.

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MARKET TRADER (MR. GEORGE DLAMINI)

What do you do, how do you use this space?

I sell fruits, vegetables clothes and other items to people. I have stand here as well as a lock up facility behind my stand. I don’t use the lock up to sell because it is too far from the people movement.

How is this space good for your work?

Very close to the taxi rank, sheltered from the rain and the sun and close to the toilets.

How is this space bad for your work?

The space is good. My only complaint is how the city network is treating us. I also have no electricity in my lock up facility, I would like electricity.

Would you rather work somewhere else in this or another area?

No. What would make this space better for you?

Better lighting, so we could trade in the early morning and the late evenings. It would be nice to set up a night time market for those people who travel late.

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STREET BARBER (BARAWANI HARUNA)

What do you do, how do you use this space?

I am a barber. We have a tent where we cut hair here. I used to be a security guard, but that work is too long and I don’t like working at night and sleeping in the day.

How is this space good for your work?

There are lots of people walking here, and we are close to the city.

How is this space bad for your work?

There is no electricity, and we can’t work at night.

Would you rather work somewhere else in this or another area?

Yes, I would like to be closer to the market.

What would make this space better for you?

I would like to see more lighting and security in this space.

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TAXI OWNER/DRIVER (UMZIMKULU TAXI ASSOCIATION)

What do you do, how do you use this space?

We are taxi drivers. We pick up passengers, wash & repair our taxi’s, and even sleep here.

How is this space good for your work?

The road is small (And one-way), which means it is easier to manage taxi pick ups and drop offs.

There are many pedestrians who walk here which is good for business. There are many street stalls which we use as well.

How is this space bad for your work?

There is limited space for parking, and over-night stays are not safe for the Taxi’s (no security at night). The 1-way makes it difficult because to return is a very far drive around 3 blocks.

Would you rather work somewhere else in this or another area?

No, this space works for us.

What would make this space better for you?

We would like shelter from the sun and rain for our passengers, closer ablutions and better facility for washing our taxis.

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WARWICK MARKET TRADESMEN

SOCIAL LIAISONS

TROLLEY PUSHERS

STREET POOL

TAXI DRIVER

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MUTHI (MEDICINE) TRADER

GOLD FILLING SALESMAN

SOCIAL LIAISON

WARWICK MARKET TRADESMEN

TAXI DRIVER

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additional resources This information was collected in early January/February of 2013 and is comprised of on-site observations, interviews and historical data. All images in full resolution, plus additional data will be provided on a separate DVD. Items included in additional DVD and or Dropbox folder: 6 x Large Format Street Edge .tiff files 23 x Historic Images, drawings and maps 46 x Geo-tagged site images 5 x 360 Panorama accessible by web upload Links and collected data around peripheral sites Additional maps and drawings supplied by City Architects More information is available online at: History/Information on Durban www.durban.gov.za Markets of Warwick www.marketsofwarwick.co.za Badhsa Peer http://www.badsha.peer.org.za/ ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Rodney Harbor & his office Asiye eTafuleni iTrump (City of Durban) Arthur Gammage of City Architects University of Johannesburg UIA 2014 Scientific Committee

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WARWICK EXPERTS

JHONO BENNET T Jhono Bennett obtained a Master’s degree in Architecture withdesign distinction from the University of Pretoria, South Africa (2011).He completed his undergraduate education in Architecture at the University of Kwa-Zulu Natal with a supplemented semester abroad at the Carlton University, Ottawa, Canada.

During his two year practical training in Cape Town, he worked in addition to his primary office work with Architecture for Humanity on the Football for Hope Initiative, collaborating on the design for the Special Olympics Training centre in Katatura, Windhoek, Namibia.Slovo Park, a student and community research, design and in-funded construction project (2010), provided a critical stance in regard to the role of Architecture in the fluid and dynamic developing areas of South Africa.

This was taken further in his Masters dissertation that focused on design as a response to vulnerable networks through qualitative fieldwork in Mamelodi, Pretoria.From this critical point Jhono, with various partners, have formed a Section 21 collaborative that provides a design based collaborative service between grass roots organisations, professionals, academia and government: 1:1 - Agency of Engagement. Soon after, he began working jointly as technical support to C.O.R.C, an NGO working under the Shack Dwellers International South African Alliance while working part time at various academic institutions in South Africa.Jhono currently works at the University of Johannesburg as a part time lecturer and Independent Researcher while managing the operations of 1:1 - Agency of Engagement.

BRIDGET HORNER Bridget Horner is an architect and Director of Space Syntax South Africa, she is also a lecturer in the Architectural Post Graduate Programme at the University of KwaZulu Natal. Bridget's expertise lies in evidence based analysis and strategic design advice empowering public and private agencies with the tools to evaluate project proposals and participate in the development of the design process.Bridget completedher bachelor degree in architecture at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, in Port Elizabeth, South Africa where she graduated cum laude and was awarded a Commonwealth Scholarship to study at the Bartlett School of Graduate Studies at the University College London. After working as a consultant in the London office of Space Syntax on retail and urban development projects Bridget traveled extensively in Europe, Eastern Europe and Asia. Upon returning to South Africa she registered as a professional architect and then worked exclusively in the field of urban design before establishing Space Syntax South Africa in 2005. She has lectured part time at both Durban University of Technology and the University of KwaZulu Natal (UKZN) before taking a full time lecturing post at UKZN in 2012.

JOANNE LEES Joanne Lees has over 20 years’ experience as an architect, strategic planner, development facilitator, housing and urban development specialist. She is based in Durban, South Africa, and consults to a range of organisations including Government, NGO’s, Social Housing Associations, and the private sector.

Her experience includes 18 years as a principal of Lees + Short Associated Architects, and 2 years working for eThekwini Municipality as a housing project manager. She has worked in the Warwick Precinct on and off for many years. She was contracted to provide intensive support to iTRUMP(Inner eThekwini Urban Regeneration and Management Programme) in 2000- 2002, and has been asked to fulfil this role again now. Her specialties include urban regeneration, design for the informal economy, housing, strategic planning, sustainability. Although sustainable development has always been a concern, she has been pro-actively working more and more in the sustainability space in recent years.

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RAHUL MEHROTRA India Rahul Mehrotra works in Mumbai and teaches at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University, where he is Professor of Urban Design and Planning, and Chair of the Department of Urban Planning and Design as well as a member of the steering committee of Harvard’s South Asia Initiative.

jOE OSAE-ADDO Ghana Joe Osae-Addo trained at the Architectural Association in London, Joe Osae-Addo is the CEO of Constructs R+D, an ‘innov-native’TM research and development company and the Chairman of ArchiAfrika Foundation, a non- profit organisation engaged in the promotion of African design and architecture.

TASMI QUAZI South Africa Tasmi Quazi has a background in architecture community-based design approaches and a degree in Development Studies. She has been recognised as one of the Mail and Guardian’s top 200 young South Africans, 2013, for her role as Research Officer of the Durban-based NPO, Asiye eTafuleni, working in the realm of inclusive urban design and planning with informal workers.

MARIANELA JIMÉNEZ CALDERÓN Costa Rica Marianela Jiménez Calderón Deputy Chairwoman of the Board of Directors of the Association of Architects in Costa Rica (CACR) and General Manager of the General Board of Directors of the Federate Association of Engineers and Architects in Costa Rica (CFIA). She holds a Degree in Architecture from the University of Costa Rica (Universidad de Costa Rica, UCR).

MONICA ALBONICO South Africa Monica holds a bachelor degree in architecture and a masters in urban design from the University of the Witwatersrand. She is the director of the METACITY, URBAN PROJECTS UNIT and a Principal and Co-ordinator of Architectural and Urban Design projects at the firm she co-founded, known as Albonico Sack Metacity (ASM) Architects and Urban Designers. As an educator Monica has actively participated in academic and training programmes across South Africa and Latin America. Her work addresses primarily issues related to urban transformation, cultural and heritage spaces, sustainable human settlements and the creation of liveable cities.

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LUYANDA MPHAHLWA South Africa Luyanda Mphahlwa is an award winning architect, founder and Principal of DesignSpaceAfrica. Design awards include the SAIA award of excellence for the South African Embassy in Berlin and the Curry Stone Design Award for the 10x10 Design Indaba Sandbag housing project. His firm focusses on architecture contributing towards social change.

Iain Low Iain Lowe is professor at the University of Cape Town where he convenes postgraduate research programs in architecture. He was Fulbright scholar at the University of Pennsylvania and visiting scholar at the American Academy in Rome. As a practitioner he was Project Architect for the World Bank/Government of Lesotho where he researched and designed schools for the Training for Self Reliance Project, and has designed an award winning reinstallation of Iziko South African Museum’s San Rock Art in Cape Town. Currently his research area is 'space and transformation' and the specialization in the contemporary (postApartheid) city. He is editor of the Digest of S A Architecture and the Digest of African Architecture.

Gerhard Bruyns Dr Gerhard Bruyns is an Assistant Professor with the School of Design, Polytechnic University of Hong Kong. He holds a Bachelors of Architecture (Cum Laude) and both a Masters of Architecture (Urbanism, Cum Laude) and PhD (Urbanism) from Delft University of Technology (TUD), the Netherlands. Dr Bruyns worked in a number of South African design practices before joining the TUD’s Urbanism Department, and its Chair of Urban Renewal and Management.

In 2008 he was asked to join TUD’s Delft School of Design where he conducted advanced postgraduate urban research, whilst co-supervising and coordinating the postgraduate masters (MSc) design program. During his tenure at Delft, he published a variety of articles as well as co-edited books on African and European urbanization (010 Publishers). He has lectured globally as well as acted as invited jury member to architecture schools in South Africa, Asia, South America, the US, Greece and Germany. Between 2010 – 2012 dr Bruyns was a visiting academic associate at the Dessau Institute of Architecture, Germany. In terms of research, dr Bruyns’ interests deal with urban spatial ontologies, with recent work focusing on the uneven spatial models within urban development. He is currently a co-editor of a Footprint Architecture Theory Journal (Techne Press) edition with the question of ‘commoning’ as differentiated form of ‘publicness’ as main theme.

Amira Osman Professor Amira Omer Siddig Osman is an associate professor in architecture at the University of Johannesburg. She finished her basic degree and Masters in Architecture at the University of Khartoum in Sudan in 1988 and 1996 respectively. Amira also studied at the Institute for Housing Studies (IHS) in Rotterdam in 1992, where she obtained a post-graduate diploma. Amira finished her PhD in Architecture at the University of Pretoria in 2004. Following this, Professor Osman taught in various institutions for over 20 years (1988-2009), 11 of which were at the University of Pretoria in South Africa. She has participated in a number of projects in South Africa, including a hostel upgrade and designs for social housing in Pretoria. Amira has collaborated with various partners in research projects for a number of agencies and is a rated NRF researcher. . Professor Osman is also a member of several national and international boards and has served on various scientific committees and competition juries internationally.

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THE JURY REPORT The jury was impressed with the number of entries received, which met the required standards for qualification.

The entries submitted were mostly innovative, carefully crafted and representative narratives. Many of which were looking critically at the site and its location within the broader Durban context. The brief allowed for an open interpretation and exploration of the conditions and opportunities presented by the Warwick Junction area. Encouraging a multi-pronged approach, which responds to the flexibility embedded within the area from which fluid approximations and other more site specific responses could evolve. This is captured within the 15 selected entries. Most of the propositions address issues of informality, temporality and materiality and foremost look at the design process as a way of engaging with complex and elusive realities.

Graphic eloquence in the representation and communication of the ideas was highly valued. So were the architectural explorations, which searched for appropriate and yet provocative responses to the concept of Architecture OTHERWHERE, a different way of being and engaging with the opportunities of urban living within the Warwick Junction context.

The project selection followed a rigorous process monitored by a tenacious convenor that encouraged the necessary debate before consensus was reached amongst the jury members on issues of content, innovation and provocations, aspects highly regarded throughout the evaluation and selection process.

FINALIST #1: STCOMP 18: “Dignity of Human, of Place, of City - Creating Common Ground”.

JURY COMMENTS: Interesting and accomplished conceptual response at the local level, interpreting and exploring what various areas within and around the site could offer in changing and evolving the immediate context.

FINALIST #2: STCOMP 24: “The Urban Machine”.

JURY COMMENTS: Well thought through propositions at all required scales. This entry displays imaginative and provocative ideas, supported by well crafted and inventive solutions rooted in an “OTHERwhere” way of thinking and intervening within the city. It seeks to transform an “everyday” space into an evocative and rich environment.

FINALIST #3: STCOMP 32: “Little Thing, Big Impact”.

JURY COMMENTS: Clear urban strategy, linking the macro to the micro scales, well illustrated, subtle and evocative intervention dealing with inventive solutions regarding the actual trading stalls.

FINALIST #4: STCOMP 119: “From Isolation to Participation”.

JURY COMMENTS: Well researched and presented technological solutions. The general structure is based on a rhythmic and articulated layout, informed by a well structured movement system including taxis and pedestrians. The small-scale interventions, consisting of modular elements, offer a number of spatial permutations and present interesting and innovative propositions for trading and living.

FINALIST #5: STCOMP 185: “Suture the City”.

JURY COMMENTS: Intervention dealing with the station as the main anchor of change and including a series of ‘actions’ at a smaller scale.

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FINALIST #6: STCOMP 209: “Re-hydrating Durban - The Future Water Point Project”.

JURY COMMENTS: Incision of new infrastructure. Exploring alternative technology to support to traders and activate the area. Offers the possibility to see change through imaginative and pertinent small actions and interventions.

FINALIST #7: STCOMP 236: “On-and-Under – A Different Approach to Utilization of Urban Space”.

JURY COMMENTS: Comprehensive strategy with clear unpacking of small scale supporting infrastructure dealing with challenging edges.

FINALIST #8: STCOMP 256: “Renewal of Warwick Junction”.

JURY COMMENTS: Large-scale intervention addressing the possibilities of the station shifting and redefining the spaces allowing for a more dynamic engagement with the context.

FINALIST #9: STCOMP 302: “Sewn-Up”.

JURY COMMENTS: Re-conceptualizing the role that an urban intervention plays in bringing new possibilities within an extended strategy looking at connecting various parts of the city.

FINALIST #10: STCOMP 316: “Self-Acting, Self-Organization”.

JURY COMMENTS: Clear strategy at all scales, OTHERWHERE solution, shifts attention to other edges and extends the realm of influence and possibilities for the hub.

FINALIST 11: STCOMP 318: “Architecture On WHEELS”.

JURY COMMENTS: Another way of occupying the site, strategic intervention extending the possibilities along Theatre lane. Looking at the temporal appropriation of space and in doing so opening new opportunities to re-imagine the street environment and extend trading time.

FINALIST #12: STCOMP 357: “Spore City”.

JURY COMMENTS: This is a bold and stimulating proposal. At the larger scale it proposes an integrated strategy which incorporates additional uses, such as public space and social facilities which are conceptualised as a network of possibilities beyond the Warwick Junction area. The small scale is thoroughly presented including a well thought through mobile facility, catering to well researched requirements and needs.

FINALIST #13: STCOMP 389: “Floating ANYWHERE”.

JURY COMMENTS: Bold statement, large-scale intervention with a long-term vision, set up to change the context and extend into the fabric of the city as a transformative intervention. Designed to work at a larger scale, it is not sufficiently detailed to apply to a short-term intervention.

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FINALIST #14: STCOMP 467: “Doubled CITY”.

JURY COMMENTS: Including an innovative analytical approach for participation to strengthen the communication between the individual and other critical decision makers. It proposes the application of a commonly used material as a main structuring element, forming new planes and surfaces. This newly inhabited landscape is connecting various parts of the precinct as a continuous and fluid intervention with small-scale facilities dotted along the main routes, which are playful and enticing.

FINALIST #15: STCOMP 474: “City Fibre of Durban”.

JURY COMMENTS: Extended linkages throughout the station strengthening the connection between the station node and the surrounding context, structural modulation and distribution of facilities, innovation expressed through the use of simple technology, however not rooted in the actual context.

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FINALIST #1 STCOMP 18 | SHORT TERM | MEDIUM TERM | LONG TERM PROJECT TITLE: “Dignity of Human, of Place, of City Creating common ground”.

GROUP MEMBERS: Zhaosong Lu, YueGu, Yuan Gao, Zheng Zhou, Xi Ju and Shixiao Zhang.

COUNTRY: People’s Republic of China.

CONCEPT: A higher state of being can only be realized after becoming aware of lower hierarchical levels, through one’s own effort and own relentless endeavour.

Dignity of Human is a catalytic agent, a ‘one-week workshop’ aimed as allowing a community to construct an inherent identity. Through identity it is possible to form a tightly woven community, which in turn can ensure a harmonious neighbourhood and intern-neighbour community. These conditions are viewed as essential for the formation of an ‘urban catalyst’ necessary for the renewal and renovation of Brook Street where community and dwellers alike could rekindle their own individuality.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION: The city of Durban takes precedence from a number of international developmental models, whilst engaging with a global economy aimed at creating a port city as well as an international tourism and trade capital within South Africa. Durban’s dignity is re-established by clearing industrial functions and juxtaposing the existing spatial structure with; strengthened transportation links, diverse urban functions, tourism services, whilst creating a multi-nodal service system and a vast network of ecological spatial structures with the inner harbour as focus.

In Warwick specifically, Brook Street was selected as the primary breakthrough point. The survival of vulnerable groups is the most serious problem that restricts Warwick’s development in the future.

Here the focus would be to spatially seek equal social relationships, the ability to earn their own living and establishment of a peaceful living condition.

The process of finding human dignity is as follow: Existence: People to exercise the right to live where they feel they belong, and to have the right to decide matters related to their own living environment.

Participation: Allowing people to engage with tourist and visitors as a way of showing their enthusiasm for their own neighbourhood.

Realization: With basic issues resolved, Warwick becomes more than just a place of work and living as it becomes a place, which attracts and produces new forms of culture.

Solution: Taken form the above it is proposed to hold a one-week program entitled ‘Establishing Common ground’. Seen as a low-tech initiative, the activity is meant to educate local formal, informal and larger scale vendors on community participation and community involvement.

The short-term intervention consists of the following croups; government, media, homeless and informal Warwick traders, community volunteers and social institutions. Expenses are to be covered by private companies, in return for use of Warwick’s advertising space.

Building materials are mostly recycled waste materials. Recycling incentives are used to collected usable building material with the remaining building supplies provided by a designated material supplier, either private of public funded.

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First, the activities begin with professionals who build a basic public services unit (water supply points or community centre). Informal traders or homeless are recruited to assist as part of the process of ‘skill transference’ on how to build accommodation and storage facilities. Professional assistance gradually decreases until such time that all recruiters are independent and knowledgeable in the construction of units and facilities.

It is hoped that in the process of independent building and construction that other appropriate cultural and recreational activities (basketball games, food festival, celebrations) could be added as the community familiarizes themselves with each other building an ever tighter sense of community cohesion, social attention, achieve self-recognition, and transform into a independent community.

Any form of government recognition would greatly increase the potential of attracting business investments provide numerous employment opportunities and develop tourism to stimulate the potential value of the region.

Budgetary constraints: Apart from some low-cost materials, the main expenses are as follows: 1) Pre-publicity posters.

2 ) Staff’s expense (paying for transportation, communication, food).

3 ) Preparation for the screening of films, seating and projection equipment.

4 ) Expenses for graffiti paint.

5 ) Basketball participants’ subsidies (food and water).

6 ) Preparation of food and gourmet festival (food materials, tableware expense) 7 ) Site layout for large activities( balloons, lights , audio equipment).

Life expectation of the catalyst: After completion of the one-week workshop and community activity, the buildings freely combine and mutate along Brook Street. With the formation of a stronger community the groundwork is set for a harmonious neighbourhood relationship to ensure that the human dignity ‘catalytic process’ is kept for the entire process of renovating Brook Street.

FINALIST #2 STCOMP 24 | SHORT TERM | MEDIUM TERM | LONG TERM PROJECT TITLE: “The Urban Machine”.

GROUP MEMBERS: Rita Soueidi.

COUNTRY: Lebanese Republic.

CONCEPT: After a thorough reading of the competition brief and a detailed analysis of the city of Durban, especially Warwick junction, it was deemed critical to elaborate on an appropriate strategy for city citizens, especially merchants and visitors.

The Urban Machine Concept aims to: (a) Occupy residual spaces without interfering with empty city plots, based on the financial values of the surrounding islands of Warwick junction, (b) To duplicate the usage, the function and the occupation of the site in order to reduce the footprints of the overall intervention, (c) To connect the large, medium and small-scale interventions in all aspects: concept, design, industrialization and integration, in order to make the intervention, simple, "low tech" and affordable to all market users.

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PROJECT DESCRIPTION: An overall view to the Durban urban scale reveals a city with rigorous ‘chequered’ layout. Enlarging our view of Warwick junction highlights, what I would like to call, a ‘tensile’ urban structure, given the overlapping and crossing of vehicular bridges, pedestrian walkways, market entry points in relation to train, buses and taxis stations. Therefore it is suggested that big scale intervention should be located on those nodes of convergence. The Urban Machine will specifically target the node that connects the Brook Street market, the vehicular street and bridges, the entrance to the cemetery and the pedestrian bridge, and will serve as a structural model for other similar interventions. What is proposed is to rearrange the main access into a segregate structure over several different levels, inserting activities in service of the city; food courts, public square and bus station. Meanwhile sustainability of the project is further enhanced through the adaptive reuse of the brook street market roof as photovoltaic and water collector. For the medium scale intervention, the project focuses on the boundaries between the cemetery, the Brook street market and the train station.

A linear intervention, one of two, will occupy the interface between the cemetery and the station, doubling spatial functionality. To serve and supplement the existing functions, I propose different units for accommodation, for the merchants’ storage spaces and selling areas and other services – such as public toilets).

The second linear intervention, seen as an extension to the overall node, will occupy the ‘unexploited interface of the station/ and market, in order to provide travellers lodging and other functional extensions to the stations (for example an info box, ticketing box and more pubic toilets).

The short-term, small-scale intervention is crucial and is to be seen as the generating element of the project. Focus here is not so much the small scale but rather the MIRCO intervention scale, based on an designing a simple, low-tech, low-cost flexible modular system, which allows for repetition and multiplication, echoing out to help define the medium as well as large MACRO scale interventions.

In this way the scale shift occurs from ‘micro’ to ‘macro’, using a unique and simple industrialized module. It is important to stress that the three interventions are aligned, connecting the southwest entrance of the market to the urban network, where the small kiosks of the merchants are located on the sidewalk.

FINALIST #3 STCOMP 32 | SHORT TERM | MEDIUM TERM | LONG TERM PROJECT TITLE: “Little Thing, Big Impact”.

GROUP MEMBERS: Juline Picard and Pauline Dumas.

COUNTRY: Republic of France.

CONCEPT: Urban staples - A platform of exchanges, not a ‘buffer-zone’.

Warwick Junction is a perfect example of the intrinsic contradictions in the areas surrounding South Africa’s stations. It is both a gateway and a fragmented neighbourhood. Our main focus in this project is to regenerate this buffer zone and create a fluid and lively hub.

There is no place like Warwick Junction. Walking around the neighbourhood is like travelling from one universe to another, from layer to layer, from sequence to sequence. Warwick Junction reveals its beauty through its diverse forms and colours, offering an extraordinary number of very special, very unique experiences.

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Today, physical barriers keep the different universes disconnected from each other. The railways, the highway fly-overs and the “island” cemetery block pedestrian traffic within Warwick Junction, but also within the surrounding neighbourhoods.

The ‘Little Thing Big Impact’ notion aims to establish a dialogue between these different universes by creating crossing places (tram line renovation and creation of walkways) and by redefining the traffic from the train station to the «Park» cemetery and on two squares (with the train station hall extension). A water and power network will run along these crossings.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION: Occupying the ‘Stitch’ - Commons punctuate the linear structure.

Today, only one pedestrian bridge crosses the railway in Warwick Junction, the ‘muthi’ market a former highway fly-over. We developed our project to allow the pedestrian bridge to be colonized by informal vendors as is already the case along the ‘muthi’ market. Our approach aims to initiate more than to define. We aim to create a framework for people to take over and occupy.

Our proposal is an inhabited line along a pedestrian bridge. The linear structure is punctuated by, what we define as ‘commons’. These collective spaces are anchored along the path as identifiable volumes, made of brick. The commons offer access to the vital infrastructure (water and electricity) needed by retailers. These shared facilities will strengthen the sense of community as a social organization and guarantee decent hygiene and cooking conditions for all.

The project starts at Theatre Lane: where two lines face each other. “Watch and be seen” is a South African slogan used in the townships to maintain a safe environment. Openwork brick walls are used to preserve some the privacy of the inhabitants of Theatre Lane road from the eyes of passers-by while keeping a visual porosity between Theatre lane and the vegetation of the ‘Park’ cemetery.

The project is self-sufficient. Roofs collect rainwater, methane generated by faecal matter from composting toilets is used to generate electricity and provide autonomous lighting in the project.

Anaerobic digestion is applied in the project on a small scale; it is nevertheless sufficient to provide energy for people’s needs. The entire project is therefore lit up and closed off at nights for security reasons.

Standard principle / Unique modules - Do it yourself.

The catalyst, built within a few hours at a very low cost, intentionally uses standard construction methods. Simple panels can be plugged on simple steel frames and create volumes. The metal frames can be assembled in many different ways, offering a great variety of forms and uses. Each retailer can easily build their own prototype, according to their needs and wishes.

The metal panels can be plain or perforated, acoustically insulated or not, in order to address the level of insulation required by the function of the space (storage, retail, sleep). The small dimensions of the panels allows the recycling of existing materials as much as possible, mainly from Durban (sheet metal, felt and other materials) hence manufacturing costs are reduced.

Patchwork of colours and forms: We generated a number of combinations, showing various ways to assemble the units for different uses and purposes. We also introduced textile fabric to connect units in the most flexible way. But we know for a fact that the retailers’ ingeniousness and creativity will bring about other typologies we cannot begin to imagine ourselves in response to their own needs.

During the first phase, and within only a few hours, units will occupy Warwick’s streets, as there is desperate need for storage. Over the next few months, when the framework is finished, retailers will occupy the space and plug in their units. And after two years, people will take over the footbridge.

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FINALIST #4 STCOMP 119 | SHORT TERM | MEDIUM TERM | LONG TERM PROJECT TITLE: “From Isolation to Participation”.

GROUP MEMBERS: Zhou Ziqiao, Li Zeyu, He Jing, Liu Binbin and Guo Tianshu.

COUNTRY: People’s Republic of China.

CONCEPT: The concept of “From Isolation to Participation” aims to refocus attention on the cemetery of Warwick. , Disadvantaged groups near the cemetery in the current state are isolated and marginalized.

By rethinking spatial planning and policy, the intention is to strengthen weak linages with Warwick market, enhancing the experience of the existing site esthetics and its abundance of cultural diversity.

Central to this would be the idea of placing the cemetery, once isolated, at the core of the proposal, as part of a new tourist experience within the city. As feature, the cemetery can therefore become a new urban platform, giving equal opportunity to disadvantaged groups. Such a platform will by default act a social element by acknowledging groups, ethnicities and historical legacy.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION: Use of the traditional ‘Chinese wooden lock’ principle is essential to this concept. Chinese wooden locks consist out of standard parts with 3 different cross-sections. Assembled properly, the structure becomes interlocked and unmovable. Application of this notion is used in the design of a wooden unit, which requires only four standard parts. By using simple joinery techniques it is possible to configure a solid body structure of a 2.5 meter x 2.5 meter x 2.5 meter in size. With an additional 3 parts an extra surface layer is formed.

As system it shows both stability and flexibility, as the main body and constitutive elements can be assembled and reassembled into a variety of unit types and spaces to meets more complex needs.

In terms of manpower, a group of individuals would be required to participate in building a unit. This will also facilitate the training of local carpenters to make standard wooden part, enhancing community cohesion during this process whilst nurturing more employment opportunities.

FINALIST #5 STCOMP 185 | SHORT TERM | MEDIUM TERM | LONG TERM PROJECT TITLE: “Suture the City”.

GROUP MEMBERS: Mingqi Wu, Dian Luo, Tong Niu, Zhelun Cui and Zhenzhen Feng.

COUNTRY: People’s Republic of China.

CONCEPT: Durban’s morphology is marred by a condition of fragmentation. As city its ‘inner’ city and the ‘outer’ regions appears to be dislodged. Caused by both a historic legacy and conditions of global ‘spatial’ fragmentation, the consequences have been a dialectically driven, inward looking, process focussed at inherent and independent ‘core clusters’ regions. With the presence of a widening spatial gap between what is central or peripheral, Warwick Junction is located within a literal “urban chasm”. As

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city area, Warwick carries a dual function, representative of collision, or, a place of connection, fusing both central and peripheral regions into a single spatial entity.

As concept, ‘Suture the City’ proposes to rethink the use of Warwick through the notion of suturing, that is to say, a methodology by way of stapling (linking) and conversion (reuse) of new and much needed functions into a coherent structure. As a concept the ideas are to propose large and small interventions as facilitators to a process of relinking inner and outer urban regions through one spatially specific place.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION: The long-term intervention aims to both convert and extend the old Warwick Rail Station into a coherent and overarching complex. Spanning the entire existing railway structure, the complex is meant to supplement specific and much needed functions around Warwick. What was previously fragmented would in this scale be sutured together, literally placed over the previous spatial ‘gap’, and functionally representative of both the inner and outer city regions. Although the suturing process is physical, it should not be misinterpreted for the much-needed flow of users and pedestrian, which without the suturing process would be rendered ineffective.

Although conceived at the large scale, this project remains focussed at the grass roots level. The first point of departure should be short-term interventions or what we refer to as “PINS”. PINS are to be seen as incentives, facilities, or, agents whose functions are directed by the local users’ needs. Spatially PINS could be places across a variety of places in Warwick. Different pins can attract different users or functions. Each PIN provides much needed infrastructures and support, as street vendors are not spatially bound and free to move. And although the PINS program is ideally open ended, a feasibility and economic model has shown that for any system and model to be sustainable the focus would in some way programmatically gravitate towards providing education and health facilities. Is therefore a deliberate decision to program certain PINS as health care and educational units accessible to any informal traders. Brooks Street Market will be the main focus of the short-term strategy, with the allocation of a Child Care Centre. Traders are free to trade as their children are taken care of by the Child Centre Centres. Once the Child Care Centres are operational, it would be possible to programmatically link a number of programs together, such as a primary school, situated within the main large-scale encompassing complex.

In order to ensure viability, and while the smaller PIN programs take effect, it would be necessary to commence implementation of the medium scale strategy along the existing cemetery and inner city edge. Of the two, the cemetery is the most crucial as this edge is required to suture together and close the gap, so to say, between the Brooks Street Market, the new large scale strategy complex and the cemetery. In doing so it is hoped to restructure the Brooks Street Market as a traditional market, keeping to the much-required passenger flows through the site. Overall any other identified medium term program / intervention should be seen as a transitional stage between the Warwick site and the inner city enclave.

It remains essential to understand that each of the 3 scalar interventions is deemed part and parcel to this project as the one scale depends on one another. This is to say any short-term intervention is a prerequisite for medium scale intervention, with medium scale interventions being required to sustain the large-scale complex.

Construction: The planned constructing period consists of a three-day process. On the first day, prefabricated construction material is transport to the site. In conjunction, volunteers are trained to arm unskilled workers with basic construction related skill sets, for this and future projects. On the second day construction commences with the floor and slab structures, set up the girder work and weld pressure boards, with the third day dedicated to the construction of the stairs.

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FINALIST #6 STCOMP 209 | SHORT TERM | MEDIUM TERM | LONG TERM PROJECT TITLE: “Re-hydrating Durban The Future Water Point Project”.

GROUP MEMBERS: P.C Wasserman and Ilana Steenkamp.

COUNTRY: Republic of South Africa.

CONCEPT: Durban’s foundations lie in the existence of trade and water. Serving as a commercial gateway to Africa, the city houses the continent’s busiest general cargo port. Durban saw its first Town Council established in 1854, with one of the first resolutions being the requirement of a communal water pump. Public wells became Durban’s most important water sources, but after a drought between 1878 and 1881, the water quality and yield was no longer satisfactory to support the growing town.1 Water is at the core of many cultures, symbolizing cleansing and nourishment for most. In Zulu mythology, ‘Princess Nomkhobolwana’ gathers rainclouds for her people.2 A large mural of the princess watches over Warwick Junction, reinforcing the importance of water for the traders.

Historically, wells and fountains were at the center of public spaces. As water became a private amenity, its role as part of public life diminished. Although water as an element of public space might be a mere nicety for the affluent, many city dwellers in the ‘global-South’ do not have access to private sources and rely on public water to sustain their livelihoods.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION: The insertion of a series of landmark water-points throughout Durban serves as urban acupuncture, creating a framework for the expression of an identity for the city. The iTRUMP initiative of the 1990s was an attempt to initiate “new urban imaging”3 through legitimising informal trade and including African cultural imagery in the city. The Future Water Points Project would further provide something integral to all cultures: water. Through democratising water, the notion of an inclusive city is brought to life on an infrastructural and social level.

“Investing in infrastructure is definitely one of the most influential routes to change the fortunes of the informal economy.” 4 Various upgrading projects at Warwick Junction were initiated by the city from 1995 onwards. Lockable water facilities were installed, and maintained by outsourced water traders5 who cart water to users at a current rate of R2.50 per 50ℓ barrel. The Future Water Point project allows for the egalitarian usage of water, whilst porters still provide their customers with larger barrels.

An incremental implementation process is suggested. The project would take place over 10 years, of which the first 2 years focus on specialised water points around Warwick Junction.

During the first week of implementation, beacons are erected at potential sites in conjunction with one Pilot Water Point. The beacons provide information on public participation meetings, invite comments through social media platforms, and generate excitement about the future of the city.

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Francis, 1991, p.40-53.

Buijs, 2007, p.173-176.

Bass, 2011, p.173.

Dobson, et al., 2009,p.105. ibid.

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The Pilot Water Point is nestled in the semi-circular pedestrian entrance to the cemetery, along a key pedestrian route from the city to Warwick Junction. This site provides opportunity not only for a visible landmark as one enters the city, but for the reopening of the pedestrian gate and provision of dignified space at the cemetery’s entrance.

The Pilot Water Point consists of a large damp charcoal tower, which opens to the sidewalk, whilst framing a view towards the cemetery. This space grants momentary respite from the heated bustle of Durban. It is dampened via a drip system and functions through evaporative cooling as a ‘charcoal fridge’, cooling air by a pleasant 3°C to 6°C in Durban’s climate. The water point is connected to a municipal supply at the chapel beyond the entrance.

As the period of implementation is one week, a prefabricated steel frame is constructed and filled with charcoal. The structure requires ±31t of charcoal, costing between R32 800 and R65 700 (at USD100200/ton), and ±3.8t of steel due to the structural efficiency of the design; this would cost ±R30 600 (at USD760/t). Thus, material costs of the structure would be roughly R80 000.

Reintroducing water as a public space enhancer would not only provide the marginalized with water and agency, but contribute to public space regeneration and business re-investment in the city center. Durban currently faces a juxtaposition of two realities; it is caught between the aspirations and imperatives of globalization, and the crafting of an inclusive city within the global South context.

This project mediates between these realities.

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Buijs, G., (2007), ‘Gender and Chiefship in SA: Nomkhubulwane’, in Bryceson, et al. (Eds.), 2007, Identity and Networks, Berghahm Books: New York. p. 173-176.

Dobson, R. and Skinner, C., (2009), Working in Warwick: Including Street Traders in Urban Plans, University of KwaZulu-Natal: Durban.

Francis, T.E., (1991), ‘The Influence of the Geology of Durban on the Supply of Water from Wells to Early Settlers’, in Natalia, v21, 1991, Natal Society Foundation: Durban, p. 40-53.

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FINALIST #7 STCOMP 236 | SHORT TERM | MEDIUM TERM | LONG TERM PROJECT TITLE: “On-and-Under; A Different Approach to Utilization of Urban Space”.

GROUP MEMBERS: Naifei Hou, Yihan Wan, Dingyu Yang, Kaixuan Wang, Kaiyang Chen and Xin Yang.

COUNTRY: People’s Republic of China.

CONCEPT: As a transportation hub, the Warwick area is characterized by high passenger flows, dense business activities and unique cultural traits. Based on those advantageous and unique features, “On-andUnder” aims to benefit all users, functions and characteristics.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION: Long Term Intervention (key words: Reconstruction, Expansion) By reconstructing and expanding urban space, this project endorses a convenient and efficient public transportation system in order to improve local economic development.

Methodologically “On-and-Under” seeks; 1. First, to integrate all existing trades, as well as cultural and creative features into the development of a cultural & creative industries zone. The northeast area of Victoria Market is planned as cultural, creative and tourist orientated business blocks. This can contribute to economic progression and provide additional work opportunities.

2. Second, by using the concept of roof community, the project extends living space onto building roofs on independent supporting structures. Roof communities satisfies several of commercial activities, such as accommodation, food, beverage and exhibition demands. Removal of any housing is therefore avoided decreasing any direct and negative impact of interventions on local users or inhabitants.

3. Third, to improve the transport system to ease traffic congestion. Enhancement of connections between Warwick, the CBD and the coastal areas would attract more visitors and regional users.

Mid Term Intervention (Keywords: “Sewing”) As the word implies “sewing” connects the spatial gap caused by the motorway along the cemetery, cathedral and several markets. As a continuation of the long-term intervention, the mid-term initiative promotes a new layer underneath the viaducts. The utilization of remaining urban space explores the possibility of a comfortable zone for informal trading. Short Term Plan (keywords: Flexible Combination) The short-term strategy adopts second-hand containers as the basic unit for business, temporary accommodation and storage, providing choices of different functional units and flexible combinations.

This allows users to join the development and construction process to select containers, seek out desired combinations and customize the internal structures.

Cost and Construction Period 1. Use of Second-hand Containers: In Durban, second-hand containers are cheap, durable and recyclable. Taking this as the basic functional unit decreases consumptions of other materials, thus saving on the overall cost.

2. Standard Unit System: Supportive structures for the new “bridge” are composed out of standard container units. Unit sizes are determined from the base upwards, guaranteeing the mass production of both supportive structures and spatial ‘container’ units. Standardization of construction unit

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components decreases challenges in both factory and site produced work. Not only does this save on costs in additionally shorten the construction period to one week. In combination this method, price reduction and flexibility delivers a model applicable to adaption within local conditions.

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FINALIST #8 STCOMP 256 | SHORT TERM | MEDIUM TERM | LONG TERM PROJECT TITLE: “Renewal of Warwick Junction”.

GROUP MEMBERS: Huanhui Bao , Xiaolei Xia, Wei Jiang, Huairui Jing , Xue Zhang and Yunting Lin. COUNTRY: People’s Republic of China.

CONCEPT: The Warwick Junction district is occupied by small commercial buildings and dwellings distributed in a disorderly pattern. Renewal of Warwick project uses the concept of ‘intenCity’ to rethink existing development framework and its inefficient living and density pattern. As the word suggests, ‘intenCity’ proposes to introduce new residents to the area, whilst prompting to strengthen the existing land use policy whilst layering additional services, such as additional commercial models, expansion of a range of communication platforms (ecological square, green parks and other services.

Aimed at formulating a new settlement pattern through density whilst preserving local characteristics the concept strives to combine spatial with technological and societal aspects such as communication, types of service industries, efficiency models and ecology footprints. PROJECT DESCRIPTION:Shortterm transformations are focused on the areas adjacent to the graveyard, addressing the problems of the dwelling conditions of informal traders as well as the informal economy’s relationship to its surroundings. The design proposal selected three locations as transformation points, namely, (1) one side of Brook Street next to the graveyard, (2) the open area near the warehouse along Theatre Lane and (3) the site under the Monty Naicker viaduct.

The use of container units is deliberately placed to rearrange the current disordered streets and help create shelters and much needed infrastructure for both traders and vendors.

Estimated time of the proposed transformation is less than a week with the cost of each used container estimated at approximately R10000 (ZAR). Overall the project is estimated to run up to a total cost of R400 000 (ZAR).

It is advised that government, the local community, third party investors and vendors take joint responsibility in order to the project to be completed.

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FINALIST #9 STCOMP 302 | SHORT TERM | MEDIUM TERM | LONG TERM PROJECT TITLE: “Sewn-up”.

GROUP MEMBERS: Ziya Song, Yi Du, Le Li, Changchun Li, Yanjing Liu and Qiaoshan Li. COUNTRY: People’s Republic of China.

CONCEPT: “The Sewn-Up’s” concept is based on the idea of relinking the present situation of (a) a spatially ‘broken’ and fragmented Warwick, (b) a booming informal industry and (c) highly specific residential issues.

A structure over the existing railway is placed to combine pedestrian routes, informal and formal business as well as a greening system with the opposite and ‘fragmented’ portion of the site.

More specifically the concept is meant as a redevelopment and renewal project, intended to ‘sewn together’ informal businesses into the newly planned route and pedestrian system, whilst allocating public entertainment, landscaping and urban functions in relation to informal trade.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION: The large-scale intervention primarily focuses on ‘re-stitching’ two separate districts, through a physical connection with a variety of functions. A new pedestrian space system would create an ease of movement within the district. Secondly, the approach would be to combine the original 9 ‘disjointed’ markets by an encompassing integrated market on the newly designed air bridge, relinking the new market through an entirely new public space structure. Negative space above the railway will be utilized to build a new city-scale junction. In unison, it is foreseen that the newly formed market will help improve Durban’s general urban image and multi-cultural lifestyle.

The Medium-term program, represent a projected 3 -5 year plan. A new main entrance is planned on the triangular area on the south side of cemetery, facilitating a new bridge-business-system, connecting both old and new, upper and lower bridge infrastructures.

With the formation of an integrated walkway system situated at the top of the station, it would be possible to relocate the informal market, presently located at the station, to a new position as part of the pedestrian bridge market. Ground level functions, such as the market and warehouse spaces are relocated. Establishing the possibility for these spaces to be transformed into a city park, conceptually linking a sustainable ideal with the public structure and green spaces of the region.

The short-term intervention is directed at the urgent needs of local residents, by way of erecting small multi-function units. These units are designed to be internal alterations to the proposed spatial unit themselves.

The Low-cost principle includes the following: 1. Materials and modularity: All the structures and materials used for the design and execution of the unit are based on modular design principles. Steel frames are used as supporting structures, with composite boards used as partitions. Modular structures are preferential for volumetric and production concerns, reducing cost and materials. Compared with other materials, steel remains relatively inexpensive. Composite wooden panels are to be mass produced, are easy to cut, allowing for dedicated workmanship.

2. Construction. After completion of a foundation, construction of the basic frame would require the skills of a single individual, equipped with power tools. Total construction time would be limited to 3 days. Therefore it is proposed, with the help of a governmental scheme, that local, or, unskilled

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individuals be trained to construct units. Government would be requested to provide tools and building materials with the locals providing time and labour.

3. Functional units. Proposed functions are open and versatile to meet local needs. Functions could include; ticket booths, duty rooms or guard houses, retail functions and washrooms. The form of this unit could be changed, in order to limit additional expenditure and to suit specific functional requirements.

4. ‘Folded plate’. A Folded plate element is adopted in the design. By folding a plate, it enhances structural stability, allowing additional use to include, for example, seating or a bench. Extension of the plate could double-up for retail purposes, minimizing volumetric space and maximizing functionality.

5. Energy and water: An energy-saving system would be integrated within each unit. Solar panels, responsive to sun positioning, are to be installed on the roof of each unit. A similar choice is made in terms of the water system. Solar panels would double up as water funnels, collecting water from the slight roof incline, collecting water at one central point in each system specifically to be used for ablution facilities.

FINALIST #10 STCOMP 316 | SHORT TERM | MEDIUM TERM | LONG TERM PROJECT TITLE: “Self-Acting, Self-Organization”.

GROUP MEMBERS: Yimeng Wei, Bo Zhang, Hong Deng, Aonan Wang and Ligua Ma. COUNTRY: People’s Republic of China.

CONCEPT: Warwick is a historical and colourful area. Its unique culture, history and custom are indigenous to Warwick, to Durban, to South Africa. They are highly unique and valuable, as are the inhabitants who are deep rooted in to the spirit of place.

With diversity comes complexity. The problems of Warwick remain complex and intricate. In response the concept of ‘”self-acting and self-organization” rethinks the conditions of city as well as place.

With ‘self-organization’ the city and place is re-scripted in terms organization and the implications to autonomy, within people’s daily lives, the public sphere, religion and in economic terms. In biological terms it could be compared to a living organism possessing the ability to self generate and heal, both in the long and short term.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION: “Self-Acting, Self-Organization” takes the architectural element of the ‘column’ or strut as the conveyor of this project’s design concept. Unprocessed wooden struts are ubiquitous in South Africa.

They are low-cost structural elements, convenient to source, transported (one truck for one block of structure) and immediately erected on site. Directly inserted into the soil and using elemental binding techniques, they create and define space, unique or simple, open or closed, and possible to construct within one day’s work.

A column / strut is transformable in form, appearance, or, structure according to people’s needs. In its transformative state it may be used for children’s swings, a lamppost, able to make music with, or shelter elements similar to that of a tree. It is through the myriad of changes and transformations that each column gains value. In addition each transformative column accompanies and transforms people’s lives, being a catalyst of sort. Beneath the tree-like-columns people play chess and converse, in the sunlight they sing and dance, beside the windmill they farm. Leaning against a column they wait for a ride, or, use it as a mini bus stop.

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Gradual structural expansion concomitantly increases user range and functional capability. Larger structures can be claimed by daily processes for the drying of washing, used for hammocks, implemented as sport equipment, transformed into shelters for local people and even evolve into a symbol of OTHER religion or ethnicities. Practically large structural configurations will have to adhere to aspects of ventilation, drainage, or, becoming technological advanced. It is foreseen that after a few years, the region will amassed to a ‘forest of columns’. Covered by indigenous vegetation the area will become what is envisaged as an open, well-ventilated green corridor, displaying seasonal colours and varieties.

Theatre lane’s adjacency and spatial proximity to a linear park connection, linking Warwick to the coastal edge, makes it an ideal intervention point for the medium-term program. In addition, the linear park connects the cemetery with 9 markets. This project would like to further enhance this aspects by further developing Self-Acting, Self-Organization as part of Theatre lane’s structure.

Focus is given to the Informal traders on both sides of the street. New shelters are provided to traders in view of their current livelihood and the current lack of infrastructure. Solutions to the problems of electricity, water supply, accommodation, toilets and security are all addressed by rethinking mixeduse configurations and space-time programming.

Characteristically the newly formed structure of Theatre lane will convey a light, cool and calm green space, mixed with regional diversity and ethnic complexity, becoming a condenser of livelihoods for Warwick.

The long-term program is one of natural process and growth, termed “return to natured’. In time it is foreseen that structural and green densification will consume the region, condensing structural elements, green space and functionality. Some greenery is left to develop into mature trees, tree after tree, towering above the lower forest of greenery consuming streets, urban blocks and later, city sections, or even possibly, sections of South Africa. It is in this ‘forest’ that people are left to dance, walk, sell and simply go about their daily lives.

FINALIST #11 STCOMP 318 | SHORT TERM | MEDIUM TERM | LONG TERM PROJECT TITLE: “Architecture ON WHEELS”.

GROUP MEMBERS: Zhekun Xiong, Xuyand Wu and Fangshuo Liu. COUNTRY: People’s Republic of China.

CONCEPT: Warwick Junction is a site characterized by large volumes of pedestrian flow, hundreds of informal traders, lack of municipal facilities and high demand of land use. Based on these features larger scale construction and buildings projects are deemed inefficient. The main aim of this project is to improve the Warwick Junction’s poor urban state with the least amount of effort and costs, whilst maximizing site potential and sustainability. In-depth investigations of Warwick Junction, highlighted many reasons for the sites present chaotic state. One of the key factors for the state of affairs appears to be the influence of mobility. Therefore using mobility as precedence - in other words trolleys and buses - the concept of Architecture ON WHEELS is materialized.

Compared with other design concepts and design solutions, motorcade systems have significant advantages. The first is MOBILITY. Busses themselves are convenient and easy to move, opening the

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potential for OTHER ways of problem solving. The second reason is the possibility of this system, as part of a long-term strategy. The third, being the efficiency of the system taking precedence from a current Warwick Junction situation.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION: Architecture ON WHEELS (motorcade system) has two different scales. The first (small scale) is a tool like utility cart. Carts types differ to satisfy people’s needs, which include; informal sellers, car washers, transport workers, barbers, children and recyclers. The second scale deal with solving the traffic problem and bad environmental condition through small-scale modifications to minibuses and buses. With this method the project attempts to solve the RESILIENCE problems as well as paying attention to questions of ECOLOGY and SUSTAINIBILITY. As part of the small-scale intervention, the focus shifts to the alteration of carts and busses. Busses are chosen for their size and potential to change. For example, a second-floor is added to make use of the original roof as a habitable platform for people to use and sleep. Small boxes are placed inside the busses to introduce much needed new functions. Apart form being used as a transportation tool, busses can be used as a functional unit for; users not able to go home each night, a classroom for education and meeting or mobile infrastructure (including water collection, restrooms, storage, electricity) Moreover, carts serve as the bus supports focusing on specific activities. Different kinds of carts are designed to suit different kinds of people and different needs.

As a response to over crowdedness, traffic jams, pollution and waist, as well as to become a public service for activities and affordable housing, the medium-term scale proposal is for an ON WHEELS modified bus to run in a sustainable and socially beneficial manner.

Modified busses work as shuttles, running on regular intervals addressing a merchant commuter problem of leaving home early and returning at night when no public transportation is available.

Moreover, daytime busses operate as mobile community centres dedicated to public service and community activities. In the evening they serve recreational purposes. The question of SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE is directly addressed by using second-handed trucks and recycled materials. Water collecting systems contained on buses are designed to solve the serious ecological problems of water usage, providing clean water for merchants who use the bus as shelter, whilst at the same time conveniently providing water for the car washers during the day. Rainwater is used in an ECOLOGICAL manner to generate electricity. It is a system operable by informal merchants, the community as well as local government. Ticket fees charged by government must be cheaper than the cost by the existing taxi fares. Therefore, all money collected by government needs to be recirculating and invested into the renewal and expiation of the Durban ON WHEELS system.

In the long run, the ON WHEELS system can play a vital role in community driven design, focussed on bringing together people with different wealth, ethnic and religions backgrounds. In terms of the city, ON WHEELS can solve traffic and social problems. Additionally, it can play an important role in emergency mobility for the site and region. Finally, with Warwick Junction’s rich and diverse historical and cultural background it would be possible to use ON WHEELS as a motorcade system to represent not only the larger region of Durban but become representative of the whole South Africa in the eyes of the world.

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FINALIST #12 STCOMP 357 | SHORT TERM | MEDIUM TERM | LONG TERM PROJECT TITLE: “Spore City”.

GROUP MEMBERS: Zhong Hui Zhu, Zheng Yu Qin, Xiao Wei Zhang, Jing Wei Tan, Jia Ning Liu. COUNTRY: People’s Republic of China.

CONCEPT: In our proposal, interactive ports are organized to promote ‘reactive growth’ process, similar to ‘microorganisms’ and ‘spores’.

In the small-scale intervention, we propose an alternative use of local automobiles (spores of the city) as an urban stimulus. Vehicles such as buses, trucks and minibuses can be transformed into mobile markets, aid stations, accommodations and entertainment centers. In this way, it would provide extra job opportunities in the Warwick area to the low-income people. It would also greatly facilitate the locals by providing extra and flexible infrastructures in the neighborhoods and city regions. The estimated cost of the small-scale mobile conversions is estimated to be R1000 (ZAR).

PROJECT DESCRIPTION: A mobile application, named “iDurban” is simultaneously introduced in the small-scale intervention, which works as a facilitator. Users, which include local traders, residents and visitors, input information into the iDurban APP in order to transfer data to the converted automobiles. Automobiles then collect the information and feed the data back to the "cloud" for information processing. Thus, urban regeneration becomes responsive and reactive. All supply and demand chains can be coordinated through the use of iDurban APP. People can use the iDurban APP in order to get instant feedback to their needs or requirements. Planning agencies can in future use the iDurban APP database as a guide for further city development and planning.

All upgrading and planned renovation of the area would gradually ‘contaminate’ new regions radiating from the Warwick Junction outwards, along the expressways and overpasses, like disseminated spores. Expressways and overpasses carrying large traffic volumes, would be ideal ‘contamination’ spaces, providing traders with new opportunities. Although the expressways connect places at great distances and in most instances causes city fragmentation, these often neglected ground floor spaces could provide trading possibilities within their literal shadows.

Medium-scale intervention is focused at lifting the trading areas from the ground, returning the open surface spaces back to the city whilst reintroducing urban greening, similar to the cemetery. Spatial separation is eliminated with a more balanced and nuanced ecological development set in place for either side of the overpass.

Thus, as intervention, the intention is to help reduce ecological fragmentation, caused by expressways and mobile infrastructures, and promote ecological unity.

Large-scale interventions target remote residential areas, establishing new connections and adding places dedicated to urban (public) services. ‘Mobile spores’ (transformed vehicles) would in this scale anchor down and become public facilities according to the information contained in the iDurban database.

The original trading crowds at Warwick Junction are dissolved and distributed to a wider region, with residual Warwick Junction spaces transformed and designated for public use.

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FINALIST #13 STCOMP 389 | SHORT TERM | MEDIUM TERM | LONG TERM PROJECT TITLE: “Floating ANYWHERE”.

GROUP MEMBERS: Mengxi Yang, Lei Feng, Xia Sun, Chaojing Su, Ken Chen and Dan Ma. COUNTRY: People’s Republic of China.

CONCEPT: I know that Warwick Junction area is the most dynamic is Durban’s most dynamic business district, which is famous for a variety of retail industries. After considering the scattered commercial structures, the chaotic traffic as well as dense population of the region a decision was taken to focus on land shortages, lack of infrastructures and other social problem.

Through research two main needs where identified. The first was that visitors urgently require shortterm accommodation, with the second being a high demand of storage for harbour and cargo related industries. In response, the purpose of “Floating ANYWHERE” is to deal with these issues by focussing on low-cost and immediate use as one of its main criteria.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION: This project develops a standardized housing model, which is like clouds adrift in mid-air. Taking full advantages of wasted ‘gray’ space underneath highway viaducts, the proposal tries to provide storage spaces scattered over an area. It additionally attempts to increase randomness and possibility of accommodation while blanking themselves under mass elevated roads. This strategy is based on the reality that a lot of elevated highways converging in the site, viewed as a waste of space and opportunities.

Floating ANYWHERE can reach its low-budget equilibrium within 7 days. As assembled factory line produced modular item all enhances production time, ease of manufacturing and a shortened installation period.

It is proposed to use recyclable lightweight materials, and select double-layered air filled membrane structures to lighten the sense of the product and construction technique. The module or monomer directly meets human requirements as short stay option overlooking the city. As object it is ecofriendly. They can easily double up and used in tandem to expand functionality. When any monomer becomes inoperative or does not meet the direct requirements of it’s user, it would be recycled to accommodate OTHER needs and functions.

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FINALIST #14 STCOMP 467 | SHORT TERM | MEDIUM TERM | LONG TERM PROJECT TITLE: “Doubled CITY”.

GROUP MEMBERS: Zhichao Hu, Pei Zhang, Kunyang Cai, Ruiqi Dongfang, Qinghua Liang and Junnan Liu. COUNTRY: People’s Republic of China.

CONCEPT: In every modern city, it is possible to witness a mobile phone dependency. This phenomenon has significantly influenced our daily life, directly impacting human behaviour. At times it would seem that urban dwellers live in two different worlds; a real and invisible world.

Therefore, based on this we are left to question the possibilities of rebuilding a city using this dual notion, real and invisible, through a “Doubled CITY” principle? Furthermore, as architecture is rendered ineffective as social catalyst, we question in what way it would be possible to appropriate digital data as a design tool meant to improve the performativity of buildings, spaces and structures.

As part of our questioning, as well as taking precedence from concepts as ‘data flow’ and ‘cubic city’, we conceptually re-twist both terms into the to revise concepts of what we call ‘data city’ and ‘cubic flow’. “Doubled CITY” focuses on establishing urban data centre in spatially specific urban nodes in order to both attract and organize people, users, information and processes.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION: Despite dealing with data (the invisible city), this project simultaneously focuses on real and actual (visible city) and its spatial problems. As part of our proposal we seek to explore parallel conditions of the immaterial and material, so to say, addressing data, flows and cubit information in comparison to a material reality and its formal and material expression.

Immaterial: Information and mobile data flows.

Material: Doubled City Material sourced a variety of materials specific to the area and region. The variety formal and informal industries points towards the specialities of products and by-products of which cardboard and paper appears to be only one such a ‘waste’ product. Discarded cardboard is therefore a preferential material and to be utilized as structural and building material.

Spatial expression: How to convert cardboards into a spatial element? In a formal sense the design proposal relies on easy and minimal design aspects. Keeping skill and context in mind it was decided to keep to a cubic geometry for both its ease of use and identifiability. With the structural condition of the cubes in place, the possibilities appear endless, allowing individuals freedom of use and cubic appropriation. Space, uses and arrangements become malleable, catering for a variety of users and needs.

Program and project planning: 1. Local government would be responsible to collect and recycle the vast amount of cardboard.

2. Boards are to be reshaped into usable cubes.

3. Cubes designated for the pedestrian street / zones will be assembled and painted according to local users’ preferences.

4. Cubes designated for informal traders areas will be given free reign to use cubes as they like.

Cubes would ideally be identifiable by the images, which correspond to the street images or signage.

5. It is hoped that everyone in the area will be in possession of a box or ‘cube’. In addition, new users / informal traders will be encouraged to participate in this project by introducing new material types for cubes and boxes reproduction.

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FINALIST #15 STCOMP 474 | SHORT TERM | MEDIUM TERM | LONG TERM PROJECT TITLE: “City Fibre of Durban”.

GROUP MEMBERS: Mengliu Liu, Ruimu Feng, Xiang Gao, Xiabing Lin, Chengxin Sha and Yawei Zhang.

COUNTRY: People’s Republic of China.

CONCEPT: Durban, as a prosperous South African harbour city, is rich in tourist resources and top-tier entertainment facilities. But in the Warwick Junction, the original operational type of tourism generated from the intersection of public transportation in Durban’s urban space has caused spatial stagnation. Its special geography, mixed with the cohesion of religion, ‘ethic’ commodity culture and an African trading tradition, has become one of Durban’s most prominent features.

“City Fibre of Durban” adheres to the concept of seeking a structural solution for an urban problem.

Through the notion of ‘FIBER’ the aim is to reweave, so to say, a number of functions back into the ‘natural’ city fabric. This approach directly aims to satisfy the (1) traffic needs – as much required connections between the east and west - (2) exuberant transaction and trading volumes and (3) the lack of a central tourist information point for the city and region. The notion of “FIBER” additionally allows for the expansion, multiplication and connection of a complicated site in continuous transformation.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION: This proposal is meant to play in on the raw and uncompromised existence of local craftsmen, the colour and the texture of hand made articles, and the South Africa climate. In combination these three aspects comprise the most impressive aspect of an African commercial framework, to be preserved at all costs.

‘Front of shop and back of house living quarters’ is intentionally created for site vendors.

Separated by a “wall”, two living conditions are apparent on a singular flyover, one used during the day whilst the other at night.

Different FIBERS adhere to different spaces. Tourists are free to travel through and consume one space-time experience, whereas another would be to experience the diversity of local life. As users of the one FIBER cannot observe users in different FIBERS they become visually isolated, causing no disturbances and fully adhering to this projects rethinking of the OTHERwhere concept.

Secondly, our short-term strategy would unclog the crowded Brook Street, converting it into a two-way street. It geographic importance can further be enhanced by placing old shipping containers at this very point, repurposing new building and dwelling types as well as allowing vendors the opportunity for maximizing spaces and structures of storage, gatherings and community formations.

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PROJECT OF MERIT #1 STCOMP 28 | SHORT TERM | MEDIUM TERM | LONG TERM PROJECT TITLE: “Warwick Other Junction”.

GROUP MEMBERS: Sara Melia, Roberto de Notaristefani, Federico Pini and Martina Fiaschi.

COUNTRY: Republic of Italy.

PROJECT OF MERIT #2 STCOMP 50 | SHORT TERM | MEDIUM TERM | LONG TERM PROJECT TITLE: “Sing in Warwick”.

GROUP MEMBERS: Yijing Wang, Kangkang Qin, Hao Su, Huiting Zheng and Yaqin Guo. COUNTRY: Peoples Republic of China.

PROJECT OF MERIT #3 STCOMP 52 | SHORT TERM | MEDIUM TERM | LONG TERM PROJECT TITLE: “Grow Your Life”.

GROUP MEMBERS: Fuyuan Yang, Moumeng Chen, Anxiao Zhang and Shuling Lin. COUNTRY: People’s Republic of China.

PROJECT OF MERIT #4 STCOMP 83 | SHORT TERM | MEDIUM TERM | LONG TERM PROJECT TITLE: “Make Your Life Easier”.

GROUP MEMBERS: Laichenxiao Wei. COUNTRY: People’s Republic of China.

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PROJECT OF MERIT #5 STCOMP 104 | SHORT TERM | MEDIUM TERM | LONG TERM PROJECT TITLE: “The Boxes - We Live, We Design, We construct” GROUP MEMBERS: Jieshui Chen, Xiaoyu Zhang, Gege Zhou, Bingxi Zhang, Xiaoxiao Luo and Yixiao Liang.

COUNTRY: People’s Republic of China.

PROJECT OF MERIT #6 STCOMP 190 | SHORT TERM | MEDIUM TERM | LONG TERM PROJECT TITLE: “Warwick Informal Trading Platform & Diffusor” GROUP MEMBERS: Jonathan Wilson, Christopher Louw, Lloyd Martin and Michael Hobbs.

COUNTRY: Republic of South Africa.

PROJECT OF MERIT #7 STCOMP 294 | SHORT TERM | MEDIUM TERM | LONG TERM PROJECT TITLE: “Landscape Market”.

GROUP MEMBERS: Zhaolu Tang, Xiang Du, Changjun He and Tianyuan Sun. COUNTRY: People’s Republic of China.

PROJECT OF MERIT #8 STCOMP 308 | SHORT TERM | MEDIUM TERM | LONG TERM PROJECT TITLE: “Regeneration and Metabolism”.

GROUP MEMBERS: Qing Lan, Xiaotong Li, Wei Liu, Yakun Qian, Jun Liu and Jiaqian Zhang.

COUNTRY: People’s Republic of China.

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PROJECT OF MERIT #9 STCOMP 509 | SHORT TERM | MEDIUM TERM | LONG TERM PROJECT TITLE: “Grown”.

GROUP MEMBERS: Yue Chen, Qing Sun and Meng Wang.

COUNTRY: People’s Republic of China.

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ADJUDICATION IMAGES

Images: UIA 2014 Durban Architecture OTHERwhere adjudication, April 2014, Durban, South Africa. Images curtsey of Amira Osman, Gerhard Bruyns and Joe Addo, 2014.

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ADJUDICATION IMAGES

Images: UIA 2014 Durban Architecture OTHERwhere adjudication, April 2014, Durban, South Africa. Images curtsey of Amira Osman, Gerhard Bruyns and Joe Addo, 2014.

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South African Institute of Architects

SPONSORS Department of Public Works

eThekwini Municipality

Durban Tourism

South African Council for the Architectural Profession

KwaZulu-Natal Institute of Architects

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