UJ_Unit2

Unit 2_Maimai Market (Image: Jhono Bennet)

UJ Unit 2 believes that the Built Environment is a constantly transforming social/physical ecosystem.

Check out the whole unit course and the work of my colleague:  http://uj-unit2.co.za/about/

UJ_Unit2_P1 // Jeppestown Neighbourhood Immersion

UJ_Unit2_P2 // People, Systems and Infrastructure

"Your task is to design a concept for infrastructure delivery in a “Johannesburg neighbourhood”. This maybe imagined or real."

UJ_Unit2_P3 //Part 1_Explorations in Urban Design and Architecture

Project 3 is focused on the layered context of Newtown and Fordsburg. This project aims to achieve an in-depth understating of the context, to arrive at the design of an intervention that responds to the findings of the site analysis.

UJ_Unit2_P3 // Part 2_Individual Intervention

UJ_Unit2_P4 // Studio AT Denver: Desktop analysis | documentation | compilation | representation

The task was to go through a desktop study and analysis of an informal settlement on the West of the Johannesburg CBD called Denver. We were then to document and represent our findings through the lens of Open Building principles

UJ_Unit2_P5_1 // Open Building intensive with Prof. Sephen Kendall

The Base Building transformations exercise was a task to take an existing Hostel and transform it into an Open Building, a building with the capacity for change and adaptation by its occupants, and transformation over time.

UJ_Unit2_P5_2 // Denver Informal Settlment - Designing Supports

Designing context -sensitive housing supports in Denver, a complex Johannesburg informal settlement. This was to be within the Urban Tissue Framework proposed by Unit2

Reflections from Semester 1 with UJ_Unit2

A summary of my personal reflections from the first 6 months with UJ_Unit 2 - Design-Make-Transform