http://www.urban-improvement-districts.de/files/File/Peyroux_CID-Johannesburg.pdf
Tuesday, July 31, 2012
Project 3: Urban SOS
arpl 3012_contemporary approaches to
urban design
hand-out 02_project 3
31.7.2012
urban_sos
the inner city of johannesburg has been nearly completely
repopulated since 1994 with little evidence of architectural change. having
been zoned strictly ‘white’ for more than three decades, its colour code after
the abolition of racial zoning has become black and coloured. drug and slum
lords, cross-border traders, sex workers, school children and ordinary
business people share the spaces of the previously ‘forbidden city’.
visionary
power, producing the contemporary city, from denver to dainfern, erasing the power of
fear, blacklinesonwhitepaper with motsepe architects, p.248-257, nai
publishers, 2007
juxtaposition – good design necessitates
framework that can be followed in order to combine targeted development sites
with small-scale interventions – incubators of sustainable urbanism. these can
spread throughout the community as residents identify and adapt future sites.
by stimulating a series of points through the injection of accessibility,
development can serve as a valuable hybrid, an invitation for the formal city
to come into the heart of the informal.
urban
think tank, project tool box
project
3 is placed within 2 larger frameworks, a) the international student
competition urban sos and b) the retail improvement district research project,
undertaken in the school of architecture and planning.
a
the competition ‘was
created to engage students in urban planning and design, architecture, landscape,
architecture, environmental restoration, and engineering with the issues
confronting modern cities and to allow them to propose solutions that, if
worthy, will be seen by established professionals in their field… the theme of
this year’s competition is frontiers… proposals should be on urban sites
currently facing chronic liveability challenges that are largely the result of
a city’s location on a natural, political, cultural or economic border.’
depending on your focus and interpretation, your project site, the retail improvement district (rid), can respond broadly to the
following criteria from the competition brief:
migration and
population shifts:
urban communities and
sites that are impacted by the mass movement of people, either as migrants across
a jurisdictional border, or from a rural context to an urban one.’
transnational
destinations:
a site that acts as a
gateway or first point-of-entry for international travellers and/or migrants,
or the flow of goods and ideas from elsewhere in the world.
shifting geo-political
conditions:
an urban community or
site that is subject to a changing or an evolving political landscape. this
transformation should be impacting either a place’s relationship to its
neighbors or its wider national home, its existing cultural affiliations, or
recent or anticipated changes in the city’s political status.
furthermore, the brief
states that ‘responses can range from a strategic framework to a surgical
micro-response, from a whole landscape system to a single piece of
architecture. entrants should demonstrate a holistic and sustainable approach
to their proposals. they should present a connective language that can embrace
many or all aspects of the site, expressing a language of built form that ties
together land, buildings, ecology, infrastructure and economic and social
activity. judges will value creativity and innovation, but your response must
be fundamentally feasible.’
b
the retail improvement district (rid), research project is a
collaborative effort of various planning specialisations (urban design,
housing, politics and governance) to understand, unfold and possibly propose
future development of johannesburg’s
inner city retail district from different perspectives. the idea is to cover a
multitude of layers of the area and then share this information in a series of
common presentations. the rid is located between jeppe street in
the north, harrison street
in the west, commissioner street in the south and von brandis street in the east.
project 3
you
are asked to develop a vision for the retail district in inner city of johannesburg, based on an
extensive analysis of the existing urban fabric. this work will then be the
base for the development of an urban design framework for the larger area in
project 4. the analysis and the vision are group work, the udf (project 4) must be individual
work.
analysis (3 groups
of 5 students)
- analyse
the existing urban typologies, investigate form, texture, footprint, urban
context,
urban
qualities, public and private interfaces
- investigate
how the physical qualities relate to social, economic and political conditions
in the retail district.
- prepare
a participatory design methodology to better understand the sociospatial
dynamics (possibly based on the ‘perceptions’ exercise with the urban politics
and governance students and the ‘interviews’ conducted by the housing
students).
vision (3 groups of 5
students)
- develop visions that
responds to the idea of an inclusive city and successfully merges formal and
informal components.
- envision a
mixed-use, mixed-income, non gated urban neighborhood with pedestrian access
and green spaces in the given context
- consider the
development of a public space system that is based on the use of public
transport for a maximum variety of city users.
- integrate
sustainable urban elements
visions have to be
communicated in a graphic format (visual narrative).
udf, urban design framework (project 4, detailed
brief issued 11september )
- develop
an urban design framework based on precedents, theories and the
existing conditions in
the rid (individual)
-
present a range of design interventions = choose an area of focus which will
include a 3d model (individual)
project schedule
|
week
25
|
july30-august05
tue
31
wed 1
|
hand in
hand out
input
|
project
2
project
3
analysis,mapping
and research
|
5%
|
|
week
26
|
august06-12
tue
07
wed 08
thu 09
|
site
visit
gp
pres
public
holiday
|
analysis_mapping
w/politics+housing
university
closed
|
|
|
week
27
|
august13-19
tue
14
wed
15
thu 16
fri 17
|
crit/
pin up
consult
hand in
consult
studio/ crit
|
analysis_mapping
analysis_mapping
|
15%
|
|
week
28
|
august20-26
tue
21
fri
|
crit/
pin up
seminars
|
vision
present
|
15%
|
|
week
29
|
august27-sept02
tue
28
thu 30
fri 31
|
present
consult
hand in
|
vision
feed back
project 3 (25%)
|
10%
|
assessment
the
submissions will be marked as follows:
content
40%
idea
and concept for analysis
scales
and layers covered, understanding of subject matter
originality,
innovation and relevance of scenarios for vision
techniques
40%
research,
method, process and presentation
presentation
20%
clarity
and quality of the presentation
aesthetics
and quality of visuals
language
completeness
weighting
analysis 15% of year
mark
vision 10% of year
mark
dates
hand in analysis thu, 16august
presentation_vision tue, 28august
hand in_project 3
complete fri, 31 august
deadline competition fri, 31 august
please
remember that urban sos competition assessment is based on:
– response directly
addresses the challenges posed by gateway or border conditions in rid urban
context
– clear strategy for
how proposed vision will affect larger city’s transformative state
– clear sense of how
proposed vision will affect transformation of site
– holistic approach to
vision that fully embraces site
– appreciation for
interdisciplinary thinking beyond traditional practice
– creativity and
innovation
– feasibility and
viability
– ability to
communicate ideas in a clear, interesting and compelling manner
by 31 august groups
must submit (but are not limited to):
- a full analysis in
an agreed and coherent format (a3, a2 or a1)
- an elaborated vision
statement
- 5 visionary
renderings, drawings, perspectives (a3)
- a brief description
(100-250 words) of their proposal. this statement must clearly identify the
name of the city and a challenge or solution that is related to the competition
theme.
- a pdf slide
presentation of up to 10 slides. these must include images and/ or text. there
is no word limit but font size must be legible when printed at a4 paper size.
all responses must be in english, with any measurements provided in metric
units.
- in addition,
selected proposals have to prepare all other details required by the
competition.
proposed scales (have to be
adjusted to specific site and larger selected context)
broader context: 1: 20 000,
1:10 000, 1:5000,
scale base map 1:500,
scale selected blocks: 1:500,
scale street sections 1:200,
scale elevations: 1:500,
1:200
readings + references:
urban sos competition
brief, as per hand out
urban thinktank,
project tool box, as per hand out
slumlab toolbox, as
per handout
city improvement districts in johannesburg: an
examination of the local variations of the bid model, elisabeth peyroux, as per hand out
what is a city improvement district? 5
readings compiled by prof claire benit-gbaffou
Wednesday, July 25, 2012
Tuesday, July 24, 2012
hand-out 01_project 1 + 2
arpl 3012_contemporary approaches to urban design
hand-out 01_project 1 + 2
24.7.2012
context_mapping
premise
the initial phase of the
semester is to introduce the groundwork to be used for unpacking the
development of an urban design framework that integrates theory and
contemporary urban design processes through an appropriate mapping methodology. by large the objective is to comprehend
through critiquing the design structures required to create sustainable
environments, which enable individual creativity to strive and contribute to
community development, identity, cohesion and efficiency. this will be done through re-reading and
re-writing the relevant context – interpretive analysis – primarily through
seeing and learning how to look and how to see, to finally, understanding what
one is seeing and looking at across numerous of scales.
demystifying
three colors: red
maybe you're the woman i never met.
"red" is the triumphant conclusion to
kieslowski's "three colours trilogy", a point of convergence for the
three sets of characters in the series. it is the warmest of all three films,
and indeed this also stems from the main theme of the colour red of the french
flag-- fraternity (or friendship). on a deeper level, it is a film about the
invisible connections that intertwine our lives, the nexi that are not always
apparent, similar to kieslowski's earlier film "the double life of
veronique". this theme is best summarized by the opening sequence, which
makes the technology of the telephone transparent to the viewer. we see a phone
being picked up in the film's setting, geneva, and a number is dialled. the
camera then races along the invisible network of wiring, through several
switches, along an undersea cable, and re-emerging in england.
excerpt
from an essay by anthony leong © 1997
architecture + film
films influence our lives. an episode of generations, or days of our
lives to a scene in pulp fiction,
offers a narrative, which we dissect with what we deem as aplomb and great
insight.
we model ourselves on characters we see as cool or
suave, and through them, we are able to represent our true persona, at times
down to the clichéd dialogue and bizarre storyline. we are constantly surrounded by films. in malls, libraries, and reception centres
the din never ceases. this was epitomized by films like ridley scott’s blade runner [1982] or steven
spielberg’s minority report [2002]
with their constant and incessant advertisements displayed across the urban
fabric.
it is through films that we may be teleported to the
past to watch john wayne or ronald reagan set cheeky native american (most
probably referred to as a “red indian”) straight after emerging, all conquering
hero type, through the double swinging doors of the local saloon, into the
dusty street after consuming a shot or two at the bar’s wooden counter or billy
crystal totally blowing off meg ryan at the airport in rob reiner’s when harry met sally [1989], only to
fall madly in love with her by the end of the film, or the climatic scene as
the protagonist, salinger, stalks his
nemesis, skarssen, amidst the roof tops of istanbul, hagia sophia framed for
maximum effect in the distance to give the city scale and tissue in tom tykwer’s
the international [2009].
chances are the action takes place in the city, in
architecture, in a designed space in contemporary films, and therefore
architecture and film are complimentary to each other, trapped in a perpetual
dance. the glamour and idealism of the film world is irresistible. even in its most gritty or lifelike
projections, it has the ability to transcend the mundanities of real life. for architects, however, the fascination with
film extends beyond the surface appeal of the celluloid image. there are tangible parallels and similarities
in the design and production processes of architecture and film. rem koolhaas, who was a movie scriptwriter
before becoming an architect, has said that there is little difference between
the two activities.[1] the architecture in films influences our lives. whether we like it or not. a mondrian hangs on the wall, the actor
swivels in an eames no.670 chair – which
you promise your lover you’ll own by the end of your first year at work – in a
modernist room flooded by light. the
context is a multilayered, multitextured city, full of promise, waiting for the
next analytical discourse in time and space. or simply waiting for the inhabitant to
strike it rich, or just fall in love.
task 1
architecture in film
write
a 600 word essay on your favourite film exploring the theme of architecture in
film. structure your paper so that it is
a fluid read with a clear introduction, main body, and finally a conclusion.
hand in: friday 27 july 2012, 8.00h
format: all information to be
presented on two a4 sheets, portrait, text arial 10pt
weighting: 5%
task 2
from architecture to
urban design
film
reading + architectural interpretation. film enables us to compress space and time,
yet still occupy virtual space on a 1 to 1 scale simultaneously. in your attempt
to understand how urban space is used in the context of the metropolitan city
and its subsequent representations in the cinema requires seeing the city with
double vision. to understand the complexities of the labyrinthine city requires
modernist as well as postmodernist visions[2]
and in the case of johannesburg, the now and then.
to do this, you will have to:
§ identify the unifying and coherent structuring elements in regards
to architecture, urban design and the city within the 2 films.
§ critically analyse and assess the visual data and theoretical
concepts to formulate a position.
§ demonstrate an effective presentation and graphic communication
technique
§ use a acceptable academic writing style to formulate a coherent
argument using theory, design and tectonics.
§ address issues of scale on the following; metropolitan [city], local
[neighbourhood] + precinct area [block, street and building]
music videos done by the band massive attack (to be
sourced utube).
a. protection:
release date: 9.1.95 – director: michel gondry.
location: paris – 21.12.94.
running time: 6m32s.
b. unfinished sympathy: release date: 11.2.91 – director: baillie walsh. location: peico avenue. los angeles – january 1991. running time: 5m20s.
hand in: tuesday 31 july 2012,
14.15h
format: all information to be
presented on a single a1 sheet
weighting: 5%
recommended references:
alexander, c. (1972) the city is not a tree. in g. bell & j. trywhit (eds), human
identity in the human environment. new york: pelican books.
calvino, i. (1974) invisible
cities. secker & warburg. random house, london
jacobs, a. (1993) great
streets. cambridge, mass: mit press.
lynch, k. (1980) good
city form, cambridge, mass: mit press.
madanipour, a. (1996) design
of urban space. new york: john wiley
& sons.
norbeg-schultz, c. (1980) genius
loci: towards a phenomelogy of architecture.
london: academy editions
sorkin, m. (1993) local
code : the constitution of a city at 42° n latitude. princeton architectural press
visualizing the invisible: towards an urban space / edited by stephen read and camilo
pinilla. spacelab 01 / 2006
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