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Phase 3 - fuelled by the cement distribution and collection the site has become a larger retail depot for any consumable goods required in the area (see fig: 13). Phase 4 - cement trade has died down, but the precinct has grown into an important retail and transport hub. Phase 5 - the precinct become the major train station for the east linking to the transport interchange planned by the City of Tshwane Urban Framework. : Figure 12: Analysis of the potential of the vertical element of support, in terms of structural ordering. This depicts the various materials, services and program options of the unit (images by Bennett, 2011). The speculation of growth was conceptually illustrated and then focussed around the cement retailer at a specific phase in the development (phase 3, the depot, see fig: 13). The eventual architectural intervention becomes an exercise in roofing and planning of the larger construction elements, but still aims to retain the ethos of the incremental self-built. Figure 13: The speculation of growth is conceptually illustrated around the cement retailer depot. The architectural intervention consists mainly of roofing and planning of elements, but aims to retain the ethos of the incremental self-built (image by Bennett, 2011). RECAPTURING THE CASE STUDY The case study analysed an existing vulnerable network around the production process to generate an architectural intervention that can exist in symbiosis with the network. A unit (and network) of growth was developed that: reflects the current ethos of the production 41
process in Mamelodi of temporality versus permanence in form; and mobility versus fixity in location. It then draws on examples of flexible architecture (and the example of the ‘portal’ observed in Mamelodi) to incorporate flexibility, temporality and mobility in architectural resolution, along with the more traditional concepts of fixity and permanence. Current principles applied to architectural intervention in South Africa are based primarily on resilient networks, while not regarding responses to vulnerable networks. (Bennett, 2011: 37) The dissertation process revealed an undercurrent of uncertainty in this specific field of architectural intervention, as professionals and academics who were involved in the process were troubled since they could not comment on the nature of the design in traditional architectural terms. The actual architectural component was more a ‘service engineering with social allowance’ exercise than the spatial and structural programming of conventional architectural projects. Nonetheless, what emerged through the process was an understanding of what questions architects need to be asking in these types of contexts. This type of intervention embraces wholly the organic nature of settlement as stated by John Habraken (1998: 7): “If the built environment is an organism, it is so by virtue of human intervention: people imbue it with life and spirit of place. As long as they are actively involved and find a given built environment worth renewing, altering and expanding, it endures”. CONCLUSION The circumstances and growth rate of urban settlements in the developing world calls for changes to be made in terms of architectural design responses. It is necessary to explore beyond traditional thinking to avoid responses that currently remain limited and unsatisfactory. The research attempted to identify an alternative set of parameters that define the architectural brief in the developing world and to explore in a highly ‘fluid’ environment a central role for architecture in relation with daily life. It has been argued that the key lies in a contextual and humanist understanding that can be attained through the incorporation of concrete and changing realities in the analysis of the urban environment. An aspiration of which is stated by Murray in her writing of the notion around the Architecture of 'here' and 'now'; she puts forward that this state comprises of buildings (as real spatial objects) that are engaged within social space and real time and professionals should consider, when engaging with such spaces, the signifying role of architecture in relation to the whole sphere of the built object as well as its social biography. In this case study critical field work methods are used to obtain qualitative data from the immediate context and ascertain inclusive design in terms of the immediate social networks and their potential appropriation of the architectural design. Specifically the qualitative field work was indispensable in capturing data and allowed the detection of social patterns and (vulnerable) networks. Systems theory and the concept of emergence remained central in the architectural design development. The aim being, not to give a comprehensive response to the current urban scenario but rather to react suitably to the spatial context, thus allowing for new emergent functions to attach themselves to the infrastructure that was provided. Traditionally the architectural brief often fails to address the wider urban spatial context; it stays limited to the interior function and process of the building. The intervention, in its comprehension of social 42
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