Amy Segal
Jessica Singwane
Enhancing & Redefining:
Emmarentia Dam & Campus Square
Project Description
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VISION: Create a safe environment that caters to the students need for
entertainment as well as learning
Aim: To make students feel safe in the environment as well as enhancing or creating spaces in the area that will seek to entertain the
students or aid their studying in these unprecedented times.
Objectives
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Improve safety, especially at night, on streets and in public spaces
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Create aesthetic and interesting public spaces that students want to spend time in.
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Improve pedestrian safety along busy routes
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Create more spaces for students to learn outside of their institutions that is close to where they live and caters to their connectivity needs
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Create more affordable student accommodation
Main Idea of UDF: Safe Environment For Student Entertainment & Learning
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The proposed urban design framework for Auckland Park looks specifically at increasing permeability as well as increasing the number of public spaces that are available in the space which will encourage more students to spend their time outdoors thereby creating more eyes on the street.
The goal is also to create more public spaces that the students can enjoy whether that is spending time outside with friends, studying or just walking through the space.
The public spaces created through the design will help to bring more people out into the public realm which will increase eyes on the street and thereby increase safety and use of the public realm.
The precinct plan chose to focus on Campus Square and the two blocks of student accommodation below Kingsway Road. This area is a major node within Auckland Park, situated next to a BRT stop as well as being the main shopping node and where some students live
in the area.
The new additions to the area are more high rise student accommodation to the South as well as making Campus Square more permeable and pedestrian friendly. The student accommodation was designed for the spaces where students could have access.
