UJ_Unit2_P3 // Part 2_Individual Intervention

Form the urban design framework made as a unit and the smaller groups, each of us were meant to consider a site of possible intervention.



Site selection: The site chosen, from the Urban Framework exercise is the proposed mixed use development on the corner of Dolly Rathebe and Henry Nxumalo street, just under the M1 highway, the line of demarcation, so to say, between the Newtown art/heritage destrict on the East and the warehouse and manufacturing context to the West.



Site stands out as a POINT OF TRANSITION, between Newtown and Fordsburg.

Transition both on a Macro and Local | Urban scale.

Multiple scales/networks of transition.

Exploring the JMT/ Transport house. This abandoned building lies on this point of transition, and offers opportunity for a response to the possible needs of transients (at both scales/networks of transition)



Possible/ Proposed program for intervention. Within the Transport house building. For the sake of the projects duration, I'll be taking a focus on a single one of these aspects (with its considered relation to the other programs as a mixed use development).

Program intended to respond to transients on both the local | urban scale (passers by to surrounding nodes: Plaza, Bassline, MF Square, commuters, workers) and the Macro | International (arrivals at bus terminal, other surrounding transport nodes)



Taking a look at transitional housing networks within the city.  



 PRECEDENTs

 Possible types of units for transients/ short term residents. Drawing lessons and principles from the precedents analysed.

What the Transport house could become.



Exploring the implementing of new, low income, transient housing units within the existing structure of the buildings.



In the process of exploration, looking at the problem of bad buildings and the process of low income housing delivery, the following question arises in my mind:



Although arriving at a late stage in the design process, this question really frames the direction of a possible, innovative "intervention" within the Newtown context.

The above plan, those seemingly resolved, I consider as a step in the process of, with time allowing, arriving at a more innovative, resolved intervention. 

A starting point for a process of further developing a design solutions for intervention. .