Kliptown Business Plan - Johannesburg Development Agency
Kliptown Business Plan - Johannesburg Development Agency
Kliptown Business Plan - Johannesburg Development Agency
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7 Summary of Space <strong>Plan</strong><br />
In order to accommodate the salient features of <strong>Kliptown</strong>- namely as a living town with a<br />
layered history that includes but extends beyond the signing of the Freedom Charter, <strong>Kliptown</strong><br />
will develop into a precinct that extends beyond the Square. This precinct will be united by 5<br />
‘notional’ nodes, which act as centres of community congregation, orientation centres for<br />
visitors (with toilets, parking, interpretation/story points and orientation markers for heritage<br />
sites and sites of significance), and programming spaces. Each node is marked by<br />
landmarks that reflect the metaphor of fire 5 (e.g. lighting). These landmarks allow for<br />
amenities to spill out of exhibition spaces (for example, as outdoor benches with community<br />
billboards) and also serve to invite community and visitors into the programming spaces.<br />
The nodes will be connected by green ‘thorough fares’ which use the existing streets,<br />
pavements as a ‘route’, but seek to ‘beautify’ them, through street furniture (street lamps, litter<br />
bins, signage, benches etc.) and exhibitions (e.g. signs and billboards).<br />
Nodes represent centres amongst a clustering of sites of significance ( including heritage<br />
sites). **NB The nodes do not preclude the inclusion of heritage sites within a visitor route,<br />
but are rather used as a way of facilitating visitor navigation of <strong>Kliptown</strong>.<br />
Nodes are:<br />
o Commemoration/celebration node: This is the key visitor node, and<br />
encompasses the entire new development of the Square and its immediate<br />
surroundings.<br />
o Community Node: This includes the existing visitor centre and surrounding<br />
clusters of interest.<br />
o Arts and culture Node: This includes Gerard Sekoto’s house and the San<br />
Souci cluster<br />
o Environmental Node: Includes the Children’s farm and the Environmental<br />
Centre<br />
o Woman’s Node: this includes Charlotte Maxeke’s house, and SKY (and Eva<br />
Mokoka’s house)<br />
For more on the Spatial Strategy, see Appendix C<br />
5<br />
See Marketing strategy<br />
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