Explorations In Urban Design & Architecture
Multi-Layered, Mixed Neighbourhoods In Newtown, Johannesburg
Overview
The MTech unit went to document information in the Newtown and Fordsburg districts. The class was split into four groups in order to do an in-depth analysis within these four sites and were then asked to compile an urban design framework based on our findings.
As a class, we marked out key nodes within our areas and then discussed how we were going to link them all within our overall urban design framework.
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| Overall Urban Design Framework |
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| Overall group presentation |
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| Site model for presentation |
After this task, we then moved onto our group urban design frameworks and began altering our areas based on our findings to come up with a development proposal that also responded to our overall scheme. I was part of Group A which focused on Fordsburg and our key nodes were Fordsburg Square and Oriental Plaza.
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| Mapping of heritage sites as well as analysis of street and building edges |
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| Mapping of types of movement and activities as well as street section analysis through the site |
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| Group A: UDF proposal |
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| New building, green space and parking allocations in Fordsburg |
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New building allocations above and near existing buildings.
View from Oriental Plaza entrance looking towards Commercial Road |
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