EXPRESSIONS OF BLACK BELONGING & IDENTITY WITHIN NEIGHBOURHOOD STREETS
Asive Nohashe
Inez Adams
An Evaluation of Saxonworld & Quigney
Project Description
VISION: Quigney as an aesthetically vibrant, social and cultural hub that boasts a strong sense of identity and character.
AIM : Our design intervention seeks to restore a sense of dignity that was historically stolen from black people during Apartheid, whereby black communities were not given a say in where they would live and what that place would look like.
OBJECTIVE:
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Improve safety, especially with regards to women and children.
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Pedestrian priority – design for all types of pedestrians.
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Tourism leverage by translating the rich culture into the spatial landscape.
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Well designed public areas that are aesthetic and functional.
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Creating spaces for informal traders/vendors such as omama abeshisa inyama
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Establish more student accommodation.
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Maximize on existing natural and built infrastructure (i.e. the ocean, roads)
Main idea of UDF: A Defined Social & Cultural Hub In Quigney
Our UDF proposal looks to create a system of active edges that adequately accommodate the pedestrian activities that already exist within Quigney. This framework proposal promotes emergence of small businesses and public facilities that will support a diverse range of users.
The framework set out to largely maintain the existing grain and texture of Quigney, as well as the architectural style of low property walls that allow for active building frontages and natural surveillance.
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The implementation of sidewalk rehabilitation schemes will set out to refurbish the sidewalks with new street furniture and vegetation to improve the walkability, safety and overall aesthetic of Quigney.
New and larger developments are reserved for areas of vacant land within the site, land uses such as student accommodation and public facilities are planned. The construction of the social-cultural hub is proposed for the vacant precinct of Ebuhlanti.
