4.1 CONCEPT As discussed earlier, city and community planning is a difficult task, as communities are like people in that their wants and needs change from suburb to suburb, house to house. Atteridgeville is in a particular situation where they have the available labour to participate in the economy but not necessarily the education or opportunities. Backing the slow movement simply means being respectful towards these communities in the manner and pace they are growing. As the “4th industrial revolution” looms, architects should encourage these communities to develop at their own pace. Trying to teach these communities of machine learning and new technologies causes them to skip a vital step in the process; they are still struggling to catch up to the more major metropolitan areas and how they have developed over the past few decades. Hover, these more modern principles could still be applied to their contexts. The first concept is Edible and its relation to food production on-site by the residents and users. Keywords relating to this concept are: − Vertical Farming − Yields − Growing Conditions − Sustainability These keywords relate to creating farming systems that utilise the overlaps in typologies of vertical farming and those of the residents and community farming. And aims to answer the research question: − Are there overlaps in the typology of a vertical farm and a residential scheme, and can these overlaps be used to benefit one another as ll as the user? (The re-use of water etc.) The second concept is Housing and the relationship between housing typologies and the users. Keywords relating to this concept are: − Financial Opportunities − Low Cost − Suburban − Integration These keywords relate to creating a residential typology that integrates with the concept of “Edible” and aims to answer the research questions: − How can urban and vertical farming be integrated into a low-cost urban residential system to empower its residents in securing work for those who are currently unemployed or seek accommodation? − What are the existing pieces of literature or precedence on low-income urban housing that benefits from urban farming, and how can they be applied to the housing in Pretoria?
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