Project 1 5%
Architecture in Film
Project 2 5%
From Architecture to Urban Design
Project 3 25%*
Urban Scans
Project 4 40%*
Urban Design Framework
Project 5
Seminar + Poster 15%
Theoretical Positions (3) envisioned
Oral Exam 10%*
*externally examined (75%)
Project 3 + 4 will form part of the Rosettenville City
Studio.
Project
3
Urban Scans
Project
3 will ‘scan’ three (x) areas of 500 by 500 meters along the corridors from
Johannesburg CBD to and through Rosettenville. Students will be asked to
identify physical, cultural, social, historical and economical layers and
variables that make up the reality of each specific piece of urban fabric. Photographic
recordings and other mapping techniques will guide the students through this
complex phase together with a proposed research matrix. Unstructured interviews
will be part of the scanning process ‘to expose the
researcher to unanticipated themes and to help him or her to develop a better
understanding of the interviewees’ social reality from the interviewees’
perspectives.’
(Unstructured Interviews by Yan Zhang and Barbara M. Wildemuth)
A vision for the selected areas will
lead to the next project, an urban design framework for 2 north south corridors
through Rosettenville.
Project 4
UDF North South Corridors
Re-envision the gap
The urban design framework will follow
three principles of contextual urbanism and envision the development of the
selected corridors:
- it starts with a precise description of everything empirically encountered,
while making no distinction between the planned and the unplanned or the
physical and the non-physical. it aims
to avoid qualitative judgements.
- it endeavours to distil a story, an image and a distinguishing
characteristic from what it has encountered, while treating complexity and in
some cases paradox as positive qualities.
- it formulates projects from the standpoint of the continuity of the
city as analysed, and implements these projects as a series or more or less
mutuallty independent interventions, of limited scale although with an impact
on the whole.[i]
[i] WIMBY! Hoogvliet, Future, Past and Present of
a New Town, 2007, NAI Publishers
