2.4 SITE CONDITIONS AND ELEMENTS The site features a few key components and features that separate it from most of Atteridgeville while still containing elements that hint at a past dominated by the NE51 housing scheme. The site protrudes from the main suburban block and is situated across from a park split by Nyusela street. Most of Atteridgeville is laid out on a grid system where most of the suburbs are placed in a rectangular fashion, thus having this nook of a site makes it unique in the way that it protrudes from the street edge. The Ebenezer church is a typical NE51 house with a small extension on the North-Eastern side. To an ordinary pedestrian, this might look like another home and not a place of spiritual worship. Other elements on site are the demolition of the housing scheme mentioned above that took place on-site during the late 1990s. Scattered zinc sheets, piles of concrete cinder blocks and the remnants of concrete slab rubble in corners of the site. Minor, more intangible elements of the site are the anchors of what once was a perimeter fence, now demolished with only the dust that gathers around these anchors left behind. The site also falls from East to st slightly but not enough to warrant excavations or earthworks to be performed to create a suitable space for the project. Figure 9a: The Site - Location - Uses
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Figure 9b: The Site - Remaining Elements
The site is situated on the corner of Sehloho street and Nyusela The site, as shown above, has ample greenery growing on street. The photograph depicts the remnants of the failed and close to the site. The concrete slabs that serviced the housing scheme that was initially populating the area and the on-site zinc housing as ll as some remaining units. Ebenezer church.
