Matthew Clubbs Coldron RIBA Part II
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Matthew Clubbs Coldron
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Thesis Project Zanzibar, TZ
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2 Thesis Project Zanzibar
2015 – 2016
2015 – 2016
MArch thesis project
MArch thesis project
The Halfway House Rotterdam, NL
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The Halfway House Rotterdam
2014 – 2015
2014 – 2015
Stage 5, Semester Two
Stage 5, Semester Two
Manhattan on the Maas Rotterdam, NL
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Manhattan on the Maas Rotterdam
2014 – 2015
2014 – 2015
Stage 5, Semester One
Stage 5, Semester One
Matthew Clubbs Coldron
Thesis Project: Zanzibar Central Bus Terminal
T
he thesis proposes an urban forum in which social exchange and interaction take place around the everyday processes of democracy that bind people together and continue to make Zanzibar a tolerant and diverse place. This concern came via an interest in historic transitions of power in Zanzibar and the “official” narratives framing the city today. Through my conversations with Dr. Maylïs Chauvin (a political geographer), and others living and researching in Zanzibar, I learnt about the cosmopolitan Zanzibari identity and of the international network of relations so typical of Zanzibari families. Designing for this particularly Zanzibari necessity to travel hopes to tap into a kind of ‘cosmopolitics,’ facilitating the people’s access to the city and beyond; taking up Henri Lebrefvre’s idea of “the right to the city” and supplanting the current government’s divisive narratives. Where these ideas meet the ground of Zanzibar’s current urban plan are
in the design of a bus terminal for Zanzibar City, located on the site of a former terminal building at the edge of the new city centre. The programme allows for this confluence of ideas whilst also attempting to satisfy the need identified by the Urban and Rural Planning Unit: a transitionary point between the home and the port. Along with the main terminal building a series of symbolic stops at various politically “contested” sites gives these places focus in the hope that the differences they represent be reconciled. I believe that the simple act of creating place in which latent forms of exchange, interaction and dialogue take place and facilitating the people’s access to the physical manifestations of power in their city will help erode animosity between oppositions. Zanzibar has a potent historical precedent for this in the movement and mixing of many different peoples and cultures over the centuries. But maybe the potentiality remains that the terminal be a vehicle for
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Revolution, a potential energy that continues to give life to progressive and radical ideas... * There were a number of different stages in the development of the project which were all very much research-led and we maintained our relationship with the people we met and worked with in Zanzibar throughout the project, getting valuable feedback along the way. We began with a process of mapping in which we gathered masses of information, both qualitative and quantatitive, and displayed our
Context
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Global
National
Thesis Project: Zanzibar
Local
Zanzibar is a semi-autonomous archipelago off the East coast of Tanganyika. Together they form the political union of Tanzania. It has a rich history as a spice island and has been part of various empires including the Portuguese and Omani, and was a British protectorate until 1964.
Thesis Project: Zanzibar
Context
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After the colonial periods of 3 different countries Zanzibar gained full independence in 1964 but overthrew the mainly Arab goverenment only a month later. The micro-conitions of the island seem to be mirrored in the timescale of some of its most important historical events.
Mapping
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The Shortest War In History: Anglo-Zanzibar War, 1896
Thesis Project: Zanzibar
The Nine-Hour Revolution: Zanzibar Revolution, 1964
I began by mapping two significant events in Zanzibar’s history: the Anglo-Zanzibar War and the Zanzibar Revolution. What I found interesting was studying a place at the point of transition where certain buildings and spaces become activated in particular ways.
Thesis Project: Zanzibar
Mapping
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This mapping also shows the intersection of power and space. It shows the difference between “official” and “native” narratives manifested through the names each group gives to places in the city. Often the sites of these contested toponymies are also the sites of power.
Scenario Planning
2 2012
Thesis Project: Zanzibar
2050
We mapped current densities of the island and projected growth in the three main areas earmarked for development and expansion.
Thesis Project: Zanzibar
Scenario Planning
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We used the most pressing societal, economic and environmental issues in Zanzibar to drive imaginative future scenarios which we then represented in postcard format.
Scenario Planning
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Thesis Project: Zanzibar
The Reach of Power
Zanzibar 2050 A forum for dialogue and inclusion
My initial mappings of the Anglo-Zanzibar War and the 1964 Revolution showed that there were certain sites that became key to accessing or controlling the wider population. In the war, it was only the Sultan’s palace which the British needed to shell in order make their point, their final symbolic act of shooting down the flag atop the palace sealing their victory.
However, media freedom has improved in recent years,2 and in addition to state-run media, other voices are being heard. The power of broadcasting has been used to reach local communities and provide education on a range of issues pertinent to people living there. Micheweni Community Radio was the first community radio station in Zanzibar, broadcasting to a district with some of the lowest socio-economic indicators, including malnutrition, child labour, gender-based violence and other issues.3 Launched in 2010 with UNESCO’s support, it serves as a test bed for local media in Zanzibar, and government broadcasting policy now recognises the importance of community radio.
In the following century, during the revolution, it was the community centre at Raha Leo, incorporating the radio station, from which John Okello directed the battle, broadcasting his threats and rallying the rural population against Arab and Indian civilians. The revolutionaries knew how important it was to gain control of communications, eventually taking over both telegraph offices as well. It was also over the radio waves that the ASP leaders in Dar es Salaam heard of their assent to power. Fig. 1 Raha Leo Community Centre, Zanzibar Town
What would happen if the island had a forum in which a more direct dialogue could occur? In ‘Zanzibar 2050’ it is the contested sites themselves that contain this function as they are the key to reconciling differences. This operates simultaneously with an agile media base, catalysing dialogue and giving people a sense of inclusion.
Today broadcasting in Zanzibar is equally important to the reach of power. For example, The ZBC—the state-owned broadcasting corporation, now based at Raha Leo—is considered by some as merely a mouthpiece of the government.1
Fig. 3 Sultan’s Palace, Zanzibar Town
Fig. 2 Ziwani Police Barracks. Another important site during the revolution
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Transitionary States
Great transitions [of power] have been an intrinsic part of Zanzibar’s history, having been through the colonial periods of Portugal, Oman and a protectorate of Great Britain. It gained full independence along with most of Africa in the 1960’s but overthrew the mainly Arab government only a month later. The micro conditions of the island seem to be mirrored in the [time]scale of some of its most important historical events: It had the ‘shortest war in history’, what is likely to be one of the shortest revolutions, and surrounding these contained definitions, some very brief political states, such as the one mentioned above. The chart below highlights these transitionary moments, a ‘Litany of Brevity’ (fig. 2) . Zanzibar is currently engaged in one of these liminal states. Elections held in October were annulled following suspicions by the ZEC (Zanzibar Electoral Commission) of ‘gross irregularities’ whilst counting the votes.4 The three months of uncertainty between then and the re-casting of votes in February will be yet another brief period of transition to be noted in Zanzibar’s history.
Fig. 4 ‘A Litany of Brevity’
‘Zanzibar Profile - Media’. bbc.co.uk. 16th June, 2015. Ibid. ‘Micheweni Radio’. unesco.org. Accessed 1st December, 2016.
Contestations
These points of transition are interesting: firstly, because of the issues that are brought to the surface during these times; and secondly, in the places and buildings that become activated in particular ways. A fitting device to track the pace of change is clearly the media. This area is being developed as part of a larger effort to improve the key democratic principles of openness, transparency, civic participation, dialogue and interaction between government and citizens.5
As mentioned above, interaction and dialogue between the government and citizens is a key part of the democratic process. In my mapping of the contested toponymies of Zanzibar City (fig. 6) I show an in-direct dialogue between official and native conceptions of the city. It is mediated through the different names each side gives to places within it—a disparity extended from the separation of the ‘Stone Town’ from the ‘Native Huts’, that began in the colonial era.
In ‘Zanzibar 2050’ Michenweni Community Radio serves as a precedent for similar localised activities across the archipelago as well as the growth and development of larger corporations. These are primarily based in the designated media and technological district of Makunduchi (fig. 6). Makunduchi is well located due to its proximity to Dar es Salaam and is connected to the mainland by a fast ferry service (fig. 5).
Since forcible legal separation has waned, more subtle delineations through categorising, naming and numbering are being utilised.
4 ‘Tanzania election: Zanzibar vote annulled after fight’. bbc.co.uk, 28 October 2015. 5 Search for Common Ground and the Tanzania Media Women’s Association. Media Sector Mapping Zanzibar 2013: Key Findings. 2013.
Fig. 7 ‘Contested Toponymies of Zanzibar City’
In one direction, identities arise within communities associated with particular informal developments. The government, then worried about some of the names people are giving them, steps in and “officially” christens and marks out a district.6 In the
reverse, colloquial names are given to government sanctioned projects such has been shown with Raha Leo, the Ziwani police barracks and other places. Often the sites of these contestations are also the sites of power. What would happen if the island had a forum in which a more direct dialogue could occur? In ‘Zanzibar 2050’ it is the contested sites themselves that contain this function, giving focus to the places in which these differences occur and helping to reconcile them. This operates simultaneously with an agile media base, catalysing dialogue and giving people a sense of inclusion. Along with the National Spacial Strategy’s goal of gazetting more static heritage of the past (fig. 7) it becomes important for the sometimes ephemeral, fast-moving culture of Zanzibar to also be mapped because contained in this are the needs and desires of the people in the present (fig. 8).
4 ‘Tanzania election: Zanzibar vote annulled after fight’. bbc.co.uk, 28 October 2015. 5 Search for Common Ground and the Tanzania Media Women’s Association. Media Sector Mapping Zanzibar 2013: Key Findings. 2013. 6 Lawrence D. Berg, Jani Vuolteenaho. Critical Toponymies: The Contested Politics of Place Naming. (Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 2009). p. 95.
Following the more polemic scenarios we had imagined we each developed more realistic visions of a future Zanzibar, continuing to pursue the interests we developed in our mappings.
Thesis Project: Zanzibar
Networks
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This graphic shows Zanzibar’s prominence among the trade of the Western Indian Ocean—a potent historical process that has seen the mixing of many different peoples and cultures over the centuries which has contributed to the island’s tolerance of difference and diversity.
Networks
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Thesis Project: Zanzibar
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INTER-CITY: SYMBOLIC STOPPING POINTS
I planned a network of bus routes across the island. These were divided into four main routes: North, South and Eastbound busses with a number of intercity routes heading Westwards.
Thesis Project: Zanzibar
Networks
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As well as planning a national and intercity bus network for the island I created a symbolic route through the city with stopping points at six of what I thought to be the most prominent locations identified in my toponymological map.
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Networks
Thesis Project: Zanzibar
Little baraza structures derived from the forms of these buildings were placed adjacent to the sites as bus stops. This symbolic route was about providing people with greater access to the physical manifestations of power in their city, thus eroding the hegemony of a single narrative.
Thesis Project: Zanzibar
Site Impressions
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The site of the main building was one allocated by the Urban and Rural Planning Unit with whom we worked closely during our time in Zanzibar. Its location on the edge of what is rapidly becoming the new city centre places it as a mediator between the island as a whole and the city.
Site Impressions
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View of site from South-West
Adjacent Central Post Office
Timber merchants occupying site
Stacks of coconut timber
Casuarina timber being freighted
Thesis Project: Zanzibar
Site’s current use as car park
View of site from South-West
We aggreed with the Planning Unit’s choice of site becuase of its strategic location; the precendent it had for this kind of programme; and the fact it was adjacent to the Central Post Office, tying it in with the kinds of international networks the project addressed.
Thesis Project: Zanzibar
Inspiration and Precedent
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Visitors Centre: Chumbe Island
House of Wonders: Stone Town
Sultan’s Palace: Stone Town
Swahili House: Ng’ambo
Indian Dispensary: Stone Town
Early on in the process I knew that the building’s canopy would be a significant element of the design, for both shade and shelter during the monsoon. I made studies of exisiting roof structures around the island.
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Site Analysis
Thesis Project: Zanzibar
I analysed the site laterally, superimosing important elements and initial ideas. I picked out relationships and motifs as well as buildings and places that had inspired me during our stay in Zanzibar creating a series of analytiques in both 2D and 3D.
Thesis Project: Zanzibar
1. Taking axis of existing terminal building.
Site: First Moves
2. Taking profile of timber merchant’s shacks.
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3. Highlighting two open spaces either side of main axis
My first concrete moves solidified these ideas further. For example, following the line of the former terminal building and dissecting the site along this axis. I also identified 2 open squares either side where I imaged people might gather.
Technical
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Bus Types
Thesis Project: Zanzibar
TURNING CIRCLE DIAGRAM* BASED ON MAXIMUM BUS SIZE Examples of National Bus Models
Examples of Local Bus Models
Taxi
Mini-bus
Cat bus
Dala Dala
Capacity= 14 to 21 passengers Average dimensions= 2.6 x 6.9 x 2.1 The majority of these vehicles are imported second-hand from China. They travel longer distances to destinations accross the island. Although a standardised numbering system is in place the vehicles are individually owned and maintainted.
Capcity= 7 to 14 passengers Average dimensions= 2.2 x 5.4 x 1.8 Similarly alot of these vehicles are of Chinese origin. Some have been modified such as the Dala Dalas. They are well suited to navigating the smaller, less well-surfaced roads in dense areas such as Ng’ambo. They operate on a largely informal basis, picking up people wherever they are flagged down.
*diagram based on ‘Roadway Design Manual’ @ onlinemanuals.txdot.gov
Initially I imagined the spaces either side this concourse fully canopied but it was only when I began choreographing vehicular movement around the site that the roof gained definition. The lanes and turning circles and staggered bays defined the form of what was above.
Thesis Project: Zanzibar
Design Development
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Development of Building Form
Development of Elevation
Development of Structure
Development of Section
Development of Site Choreography
Development of Plan
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06. Toilets 07. Platform #1: Inter-city 08. Platform #2: Southbound 09. Platform #3: Eastbound 10. Platform #4: Northbound
01. Ticket office 02. Luggage storage 03. Main timetable display 04. Waiting area #1 05. Waiting area #2
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12. Dala-Dala and freight boarding/ loading
11. Carpenter’s workshop
Site Plan: Ground
Ground Floor Plan - 1:500
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Ground floor site plan showing axial internal route through the building and the connection to platforms and boarding areas.
First Floor Plan - 1:500
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07. Drivers’ common-room 08. Footbridge 09. Platform #1: Inter-city 10. Platform #2: Southbound 12. Platform #3: Eastbound 13. Platform #4: Northbound
02. Radio communications tower 03. Site offices 04. First-floor garden 05. ‘New Berlin Street’ Cafeteria 06. First-floor garden
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Thesis Project: Zanzibar Site Plan: First 2
First floor site plan showing different programmes located on upper floor and their various formal languages and first floor access to platforms via footbridges
Thesis Project: Zanzibar
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01. Radio communications tower
02. Site Offices
Site Plan: Second
Second Floor + Roof Plan - 1:500
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Second floor site plan showing top floors of site offices and radio communications tower and the roof scape of lower structures.
Thesis Project: Zanzibar
Ground Floor Programmatic Diagram
Design Taxonomy and Programme
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Upper Floors Programmatic Diagram
The central axis is made up of 5 concrete blocks comprising a central core with arched arms spanning diagonally to the outer edge from each corner and together creating a colonnade allowing people to filter through from one side to the other.
Design Taxonomy
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Ticket Office w/ Five-a-Side Pitch
Luggage Storage w/ Radio Tower
Thesis Project: Zanzibar
Waiting Area 1 w/ Site Offices
Auxiliary functions are placed on top of these plinth-like blocks. It was in the design of these secondary spaces that I returned to my earlier mapping—the simplified forms of the bus stops on the symbolic route developing as appropriate into the finished structures.
Thesis Project: Zanzibar
Waiting Area 2 with Cafeteria
Design Taxonomy
Toilets w/ Driver’s Common Room
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Composite
These one-point sectional perspectives taken through each block show the relationship between the “plinths” and “pavilions” that sit on top. These eclectic structures bring together significant places of the city, condensing this symbolic map in a building and linking it back to the city
Ground Floor Plan
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Thesis Project: Zanzibar c.
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Detailed plan of ground floor showing the sequence of spaces. Each space can also be by-passed, if you already know where you need to be, creating a smooth choreography through the building.
Thesis Project: Zanzibar e.
First Floor Plan
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Detailed plan of first floor showing the range of spaces located here. Each space responds to a need identified in the programme and is formally inspired by a symbolic place around the city.
Second Floor Plan
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Thesis Project: Zanzibar c.
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Detailed plan of second floor and roofscape. The site offices and radio communications tower are the only structures that rise to 3 storeys their vantage being beneficial for the building’s organisation.
Thesis Project: Zanzibar e.
Composite Plan
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Composite plan showing each floor superimposed on one another. This gives a sense of the intense bustling activity that takes place in the building and shows geometric and structural relationships between floors.
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Section/ Elevation
Thesis Project: Zanzibar
Sections and elevation showing arrangements of circulation and relationships between building elements. Here we see the plinth/ pavilion relationship, the collonaded route this creates on the ground floor and the platform access via footbridges from the first floor level.
Thesis Project: Zanzibar
Section
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Axonometric section highlighting the main concourse through the building on the ground floor and the relationship between the main structure and the canopied platform area.
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Interior
Thesis Project: Zanzibar
Interior perspectives looking along the main concourse of the building on the ground floor. They show views taken through each of the five blocks describing layout, atmosphere and habitation.
Thesis Project: Zanzibar
Detail
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Detail sectional perspective taken through the site offices showing the construction, materials used, and from where materials are sourced.
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Detail
Thesis Project: Zanzibar
Detail sectional axonometric showing the construction buildup and structure of the canopy which covers the platform area
Thesis Project: Zanzibar
Detail
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Hidden-line axonometric detail showing the cladding system of laths used for the toilet block. This was used to give another layer of enclosure to the more private facilities of the building.
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Technical
Thesis Project: Zanzibar
Technical build-up
diagrams showing the primary of structural layers that form
structure and the building.
Thesis Project: Zanzibar
Technical
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Technical diagrams showing ventilation strategy for the building.
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Technical
Thesis Project: Zanzibar
Thesis Project: Zanzibar
Technical
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Technical diagrams showing ventilation strategy for the building.