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Building from Salvage
Collaborative Building I. Samuels, B. Unit 17. 2021.
Blake Samuels
BArch 2021Supervisors:
Unit Leader: Gregory Katz
Unit Tutor: Jaco Jonker
Unit Assistant: Senzo Mamba
UNIT 17︎︎︎
To Be Orna-ment To Be
This project will explore the use of drywall tracks as a building material and the challenges that come with it. Taking advantage of the decline in formal office use and discarded construction materials, items such as drywalling studs in undetermined lengths will be used to construct asymmetrical space frame structures. Can this material be upcycled to perform in different contexts?
Also explored is one of many possible situations in which these structures can be applied and used to solve a problem. Land ownership has been a long-standing issue in South Africa, hindering opportunities for people. This project will address the possible use of temporal architecture and small-scale farming on vacant land around Gauteng as a means of reconciling the slow pace of land redistribution and providing opportunities for disenfranchised people to make this land and their lives productive without waiting for the government to step in. These territories have the ability to provide housing and employment as well as allowing the land to be productive in a temporary way.
Mapping areas on the periphery of Johannesburg where most of this land is located, Carletonville comes to the fore as a site that is surrounded by unproductive land, poverty and people who will have the most to gain from this design framework.
Also explored is one of many possible situations in which these structures can be applied and used to solve a problem. Land ownership has been a long-standing issue in South Africa, hindering opportunities for people. This project will address the possible use of temporal architecture and small-scale farming on vacant land around Gauteng as a means of reconciling the slow pace of land redistribution and providing opportunities for disenfranchised people to make this land and their lives productive without waiting for the government to step in. These territories have the ability to provide housing and employment as well as allowing the land to be productive in a temporary way.
Mapping areas on the periphery of Johannesburg where most of this land is located, Carletonville comes to the fore as a site that is surrounded by unproductive land, poverty and people who will have the most to gain from this design framework.
Keywords:
Drywall, Temporal, Upcycle
Drywall, Temporal, Upcycle
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