Unit 15 (Nkoane)
Assemblage of the train as a moving building
Namuwongo
Train as a moving building: Space activation
Nkoane Perpetual Infrastructures Activity and fluxes around a train stop: composition
This Major Design Project proposes a railway node in Namuwongo, creating an international connection through the railway line andRL007_RADICAL Port Bell, linking Uganda and Kenya. This transport node will offer the people of Namuwongo the POSSIBILITIES opportunity to trade foodstuffs grown locally in the wetlands. Using principles of Transit-Oriented development(TOD), which advocates for designing more efficient, sustainable, and equitable communities (The City Fix 2015: [sp]). The node proposes a series of speculative programmes that include accommodation, social and retail spaces. The proposed nodal development can be assembled and used in multiple ways which plug onto the train and in the surrounding landscape, allowing residents of Namuwongo opportunities to shape and direct the future of their settlement. Following AbdouMaliq Simone’s reading of ‘people-as-infrastructure’ (Simone, 2014:241-246), the proposal intends to use the diverse connections, exchanges, negotiations and movement patterns of the settlement to shape my architectural response.
Time and Space: how the presence of the train influences the surroundings at specific times of the day 48
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