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| Design approach |
The question I asked myself for this project and which drove the design process was: "How can the design of the base building enable its occupants to design and define their own spaces...?"
- This was drawn from looking at how that is the current practice, with shack-dwellers making and defining their own personal residential spaces, within the restrictions and opportunities of the informal settlement.
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| The base building/support as a mediator... |
With the context being made up of the 2 extremes of the fixed/rigid hostel development, and temporary/flexible shacks, I also considered the base-building as a possible mediator between these 2 typologies. There are positive principles one draws from both. (listed above)
Design principles
- Reinforcing positive social realities and the agency of occupants
- Occupants flexibly design individual spaces within the fixed framework of the base-building
- The urban environment to form a part of the overall "support"
- Base building as a mediator, between permanent and temporary physical elements, territorial boundaries, and residents.
Site location
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| Site situated immediately adjacent to Hostels |
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| Tissue model principles for assigned walk up typology |
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| Functions from urban framework |
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| Possible scenarios of occupants within mixed use development |
Flexibility within a fixed framework
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| The base building, as a system, is designed in such a way as to offer occupants with the ability to define their individual spaces in terms of layout, size and function. |
Base building | Infill
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| Questions of which pat of the building is fixed and which parts are flexible. |
Ownership | Control
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| Exploring who (between the developer and the occupant) owns the various elements of the building, compared with who controls them. |
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