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THESIS SITE
Thesis – Site
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Site
The site sits between Wits education campus and empire road, alongside the sports fields and facilities of the WITS university education campus
which will become a key component. The remainder of the site comes in the form of a public green park. The site has ease of access via main
roads and public transport as well as a close proximity to the density of inner city Johannesburg. With not wanting to replace the green public
space with built form, the sports facilities are pulled up out of the park to sit above st. Andrews road between the WITS sports fields and the park,
which are the two realms of sports, high performance and recreation/development, respectively. The siting of the facility becomes not only a
physical link between the two realms but also reinforces the idea of these different sporting conditions sharing a common space for performance,
development and training.
D A V I D S P R A T T
The world of design through my eyes
JEPPESTOWN IMMERSION / PEOPLE, SYSTEMS AND INFRASTRUCTURE / FORDSBURG INTERVENTION / DENVER /
MID-YEAR REVIEW / UNCATEGORIZED / PHIL ASTELY / THESIS / THESIS PROPOSAL / THESIS SITE
Mapping
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Thesis
Thesis Proposal
Thesis Site
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THESIS PROPOSAL
Thesis Proposal – A new Hybrid Sports training facility
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How can design and architecture improve and optimize high performance and development in sports training? This question is one that I pose and
am exploring through a project that seeks to create a new type of high performance sporting facility that becomes a hybrid between high
performance training, grass roots development and recreational sports. This hybrid approach to the sporting facility is one that I believe to be
essential in moving sports in South Africa forward. The second is based upon the idea that if you want an optimal space to train a sport, that space
should be based purely on fundamental elements of movement.
D A V I D S P R A T T
The world of design through my eyes
JEPPESTOWN IMMERSION / PEOPLE, SYSTEMS AND INFRASTRUCTURE / FORDSBURG INTERVENTION / DENVER /
MID-YEAR REVIEW / UNCATEGORIZED / PHIL ASTELY / THESIS / THESIS PROPOSAL / THESIS SITE
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People, Systems and Infrastructure
Fordsburg Intervention
Denver
Mid-Year Review
Uncategorized
Phil Astely
Thesis
Thesis Proposal
Thesis Site
community engagement concept denver Fordsburg housing
Human Movement immersion Interaction Intervention Jeppestown mapping Medical
Movement Portfolio social Social toolkit Sports thesis Toolbox toolkit
THESIS
Thesis – Spatial design
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Model Making
The Model making process of designing space for the first time in the thesis process started as a very intuitive process guided by all the prior
research and investigation into site and concepts. The idea of human movement and the fluidity that that brings was fully realized in the models
with the progression of each new iteration becoming more and more informed by prior investigation and the initial intuitive step.
D A V I D S P R A T T
The world of design through my eyes
JEPPESTOWN IMMERSION / PEOPLE, SYSTEMS AND INFRASTRUCTURE / FORDSBURG INTERVENTION / DENVER /
MID-YEAR REVIEW / UNCATEGORIZED / PHIL ASTELY / THESIS / THESIS PROPOSAL / THESIS SITE
Intuitive Drawing
Looking at Movement, Heirarchy, volume, and landmarks
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Thesis – Programme
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Programme
There are five major areas within this new sporting realm. These include fields and courts for multiple sporting codes, including hockey, netball,
basketball, golf and athletics. Physical conditioning facilities, a gym, cross training, team training rooms and pool. Medical facilities for research,
diagnosis, and rehabilitation. And Administration and education: for management sporting codes in house as well as coach and manager
education in sport. Lastly the public or recreational realm. This includes facilities existing within the park, running tracks, soccer pitches and
playgrounds and social gathering spaces. These public facilities bleed into the other areas of the program blurring and sometimes removing the
lines between them. For this reason the areas of program are distributed across various levels and along different paths so that the entire space is
widely accessible to everyone but at the same time very carefully controlled. Pockets of program that need tight enclosure and control become
pockets of space nestled between the paths and levels of varying program and privacy.
This special moment, of movement, happiness, health and wellbeing within Johannesburg shared among users of any level is what this new
Hyper-active sports realm is about. Crafted for optimal performance, as well as optimal enjoyment for all.
Thesis – Conceptual progression
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Concepts – Human Movement
The conception of this new kind of Hyper-active sporting realm begins with looking at human movement and activity. This informs the urban level
intervention as well as the architectural and infill levels. For the urban level it begins with mapping existing nodes, routes, and activity on site. With
these mapped it becomes possible to extract movement paths, links and connections between these nodes activities to inform where and how the
intervention takes shape on site. This same methodology can be applied at the architectural level. Taking the nodes and movement links derived
at the urban level and using them to inform new points at the architectural scale within the specific site. With these it is possible to begin to create
the basis of the intervention at that architectural scale. The focus then shifts from that of movement of people on site to that of movement within
sports. These movements begin crafting the spaces and forms that will fit into the movement links from the urban and architectural level
explorations. This same method will inform the infill of the building progressing to more specialized spaces for specific sporting codes.
The hyper-active sports realms are based on human movement to optimize the training and performance of athletes in every aspect of those
realized spaces and forms, as well as how the building program is arranged and functions within them. These functions happen on different levels,
along different paths and have varying degrees of public access and privacy.
Multiple users movements
User Movement on site
Thesis – Site
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Site
The site sits between Wits education campus and empire road, alongside the sports fields and facilities of the WITS university education campus
which will become a key component. The remainder of the site comes in the form of a public green park. The site has ease of access via main
roads and public transport as well as a close proximity to the density of inner city Johannesburg. With not wanting to replace the green public
space with built form, the sports facilities are pulled up out of the park to sit above st. Andrews road between the WITS sports fields and the park,
which are the two realms of sports, high performance and recreation/development, respectively. The siting of the facility becomes not only a
physical link between the two realms but also reinforces the idea of these different sporting conditions sharing a common space for performance,
development and training.
Mapping
Thesis Proposal – A new Hybrid Sports training facility
OCTOBER 16, 2015 / LEAVE A COMMENT
How can design and architecture improve and optimize high performance and development in sports training? This question is one that I pose and
am exploring through a project that seeks to create a new type of high performance sporting facility that becomes a hybrid between high
performance training, grass roots development and recreational sports. This hybrid approach to the sporting facility is one that I believe to be
essential in moving sports in South Africa forward. The second is based upon the idea that if you want an optimal space to train a sport, that space
should be based purely on fundamental elements of movement.
Phil Astely Intensive
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Pecha Kucha Presentation
The presentation done after a week long studio intensive session with the visiting Phil Astely was focused around the site, and the users within my
site of my thesis process up until this point. Beginning with an outline of my goals and approach, moving through the site mapping and human
movement of users on site and into users movement through the programs within my intervention. The week was incredibly valuable in gaining a
greater understanding of my project site, context and the users of my projects intervention, how it would work and be used.
Medical Technology Research
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Thesis Proposal
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PHIL ASTELY
Phil Astely Intensive
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Pecha Kucha Presentation
The presentation done after a week long studio intensive session with the visiting Phil Astely was focused around the site, and the users within my
site of my thesis process up until this point. Beginning with an outline of my goals and approach, moving through the site mapping and human
movement of users on site and into users movement through the programs within my intervention. The week was incredibly valuable in gaining a
greater understanding of my project site, context and the users of my projects intervention, how it would work and be used.
D A V I D S P R A T T
The world of design through my eyes
JEPPESTOWN IMMERSION / PEOPLE, SYSTEMS AND INFRASTRUCTURE / FORDSBURG INTERVENTION / DENVER /
MID-YEAR REVIEW / UNCATEGORIZED / PHIL ASTELY / THESIS / THESIS PROPOSAL / THESIS SITE
Medical Technology Research
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Thesis Proposal
Thesis Site
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MID-YEAR REVIEW
Mid-Year Review
JULY 26, 2015 / LEAVE A COMMENT
D A V I D S P R A T T
The world of design through my eyes
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THEMES
“Immersion” “Interactions”
Immersion within the particular locations provides great insight into the people and spaces of any environment. Through this immersion far more
depth of understanding into places can be gleaned. By engaging with the residents and users of Jeppestown and sharing in their everyday
activities there I was able to begin to understand the complex networks of human interactions and relationships. The use of the great technologies
of our time such as Instagram and the internet to record and display these findings allows it to be done efficiently as well as be accessible. Once
this immersion has happened understandings can begin to be drawn into the spatial and built environment elements that promote, inhibit or are
required for these interactions to occur.
CONTEXT
“Complexity” “Networks”
Lessons learned from the Neighbourhood immersion translates to understanding sites and contexts across the city. Sites such as Fordsburg can
be broken down through these to pull out the elements that are successful in terms of the human interactions and activities that happen in those
places. Understanding the levels within the context in terms of an Open Building framing becomes essential to understand where which people
would interact and where they are able to experience, use and influence these elements within their environment, from the urban scale all the way
down to an infill scale. The lessons can also be applied to a far larger context to gain a wider understanding of the complexities and networks of
human to human and human to architecture interactions.
RESPONSES
“Promoting Positive Interaction”
“Toolkits”
Responses to the contexts that we work in becomes a mixture of the lessons learnt through immersion in terms of turning human to human
interaction and networks into physical or spatial elements that can be implemented into the particular site. Development of a toolkit became a way
to package these lessons for use later on. The Infrastructure of spaces of human interaction surrounding trading, movement and socializing can
be broken down into spatial elements derived from the immersion with people as well as an understanding of the site conditions. These can then
be selected from, added to and tweaked to fit into various sites that have similar conditions to promote these activities. The same approach is
taken within the contexts of Fordsburg and Denver where immersion and a thorough understanding of the sites successful and unsuccessful
elements can be packaged for use later in the design process.
DESIGNS
“Implementation” “Human-centred design”
“Designing the user experience”
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The responses to the immersion and context can then be applied to a particular intervention on a very particular site. The site in Jeppestown
allowed the toolkit to be applied to it, resulting in upgraded pavement surfaces and a multipurpose seating and trading surface bench system. For
the multi-use Museum building alongside the Oriental Plaza, the elements, both positive and negative of the context are applied to the particular
site, resulting in a building that promotes the positives of interaction that already occurred within Fordsburg. With active external edges and
externalized museum wall art on the street edges it enhances the user experience and the users’ interaction with the intervention without ever
entering the building or museum itself. It becomes a positive catalyst for human interaction with others through trade, seating, shade and
interaction with the architecture such as the wall art historical panels. The Denver site has begun to look at the levels of permanent and temporary
and levels of private and public space. A thorough understanding of this and how it works within the site allows myself to design for people and
their daily interactions and activities by knowing where people may meet and where they wouldn’t and how or when particular spaces or elements
may be used.
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DENVER
Denver Row Houses
JULY 26, 2015 / LEAVE A COMMENT
DENVER ROW HOUSES
The various levels of public and private as well as of temporary vs permanent are analyzed within the existing fabric of Denver so that these
characteristics and the way in which these spaces are used are not lost with the introduction of the new row houses. Without having the access to
site to do a full immersion with the community this study becomes crucial to develop a sufficient level of knowledge for the design process.
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MID-YEAR REVIEW / UNCATEGORIZED / PHIL ASTELY / THESIS / THESIS PROPOSAL / THESIS SITE
Using capacity studies, the potentials for the row houses occupancies is determined as well as the optimal location for staircases and services to
allow for the maximum flexibility over time of the row houses and development as a whole.
The ground floor plan begins to detail the relationship, at the human and street scale, of the new row houses and the surroundings. From the very
public street face, with commercial ground floor as well as a buffer of street trading space to houses the large number of street traders that have
always been in the space. The end of the row houses at each corner has a commercial/retail interface that wraps around so that the eyes on the
street are maintained on those ends and they do not become dead edges of no activity. The edge facing into the new square has an added level
of privacy, still with the commercial/retail ground floor, but now with seating and planting to soften this more private space for use by the residents
of the new row houses.
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3D visualization of the row houses and the street activity that is forecast to be happening along the street edge of the new row houses.
Denver Assignment 4
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Denver is a very unique site within Johannesburg. Being an informal settlement, the nature of the spaces and residential dwellings are flexible,
although the sites occupants are very much permanent within the site as they feel very strongly that they have ownership over it. This being only a
desktop study of the site it was very difficult to gain a greater understanding of the people and their more in depth feelings over this very sensitive
site. The physical data with regards to building typologies and uses of the structures was given and provided a broad understanding of the spaces,
however what happens on site and the realities of how the spaces are used by the occupants on a daily basis is something that you will only truly
understand once we have been to the site and interacted with the residents within their own community/area.
The residential component of the site is a very large part of the fabric and has a very fine grain in comparison to the surrounding light industrial
areas. This residential space will also hold a huge amount of finer grain information which came to light in sections that we had of small portions in
the site. This not only highlighted the small grain of the residential buildings, but more importantly the outside shared spaces which housed a large
amount of the residents activities on a daily basis and they would offer a very valuable permanent part of the site in terms of the layers in Open
building.
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FORDSBURG INTERVENTION
Fordsburg Intervention
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Mapping of activity in Fordsburg
The mapping for fordsburg gave a general understanding of the site and how it worked. This mapping formed the foundation for our group urban
design framework which identified the pedestrian link between the fordsburg market and the Oriental plaza and integrating the plaza back into the
urban fabric as key elements for our framework.
My individual intervention identified the site along this pedestrian link within the existing parking of the plaza as a point for an intervention on the
architectural level. The program would be primarily a museum of the shared history of Fordsburg and the Plaza as a way to re-link the two. This
began as a “traditional” museum in the sense of a building with the history within as well as new retail outside of the existing Plaza. With
development of the massing and concept for this, I began to come across issues with this approach with regards to the following two points: firstly.
having the history enclosed in a museum building was not in anyway intergrating it into the fabric of fordsburg or exposing it to the people that
would be using the site. Museums struggle to survive at the best of times with such a lack of visitors, that a traditional approach was not going to
work in this site. Secondly, putting new retail on the outside of the plaza was watering down what was already there. It was taking business out of
the pockets of shop owners in the Plaza and was not a model that was going to work with what was already there in the plaza. The solution that i
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came across for both of these issues with programs on my site was to turn both my museum, and the corner of the plaza i was intervening against
inside out. This also allowed me to re-enforce our pedestrian link through the plaza and link it more strongly with the overall framework for the
Fordsburg/Newtown area. The museum was externalized by putting murals on external walls that could be enjoyed by passers by and users of the
space. The history was now truly a part of their everyday life, not something exclusive you would have to visit. The corner of the plaza that was
flipped allowed the existing shops to remain but also to have them more closely integrated into the urban fabric of Fordsburg.
These were both centered
around a new public square creating a new more intimate public space off the busy streets. The trees along Albertina Sisulu road are used to
inform that edge of the intervention and create public bus stop/street trade spaces along this busy bus and taxi route.
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Although this design is far from where the initial massing for the site began, it is a progression of the same ideas informed by the same site
analysis and conditions. Designing should be a process, you can not be expected to have your first attempt at an architectural solution to be the
final one. This design as it is may not be the perfect solution to what I identified on site, but is a further step in this design process, and the final
solution may be very different from where this is now.
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PEOPLE, SYSTEMS AND INFRASTRUCTURE
Toolkit for an interactive street corner
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D A V I D S P R A T T
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To achieve the four objective of promoting the social interaction at a street corner of an urban park, there are certain objectives that need to be
met, with ways to meet them. From selecting though these ways, materials and objectives under each of the four you can customize and adapt the
toolkit for any particular intervention, as no site will be the same.
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SEATING
TRADING SPACE
SHADE
UPGRADED PAVEMENT
#interaction_architecture #uj_unit2
PUBLIC SPACE: WHAT’S THERE, WHAT’S LAW AND WHAT SHOULD BE THERE
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JOHANNESBURG CITY: PROMISES, PROGRAMS AND BY-LAWS
The city has in place a charter directed and the improvement and increase in number of the public spaces and parks in Johannesburg. The graphic
details a few key outcomes and plans for this:
CITY BY-LAWS FOR INFORMAL TRADING
The cities by-laws with regards to informal traders is often very prescriptive on where, when and with what they can trade. Although this can be
seen as very necessary to keep this very informal, unregulated sector from running rampant or restricting the other activities that should be
happening in these spaces, the laws can also prevent the kind of organic growth and implementation of these informal traders stalls which makes
the interactions that they have with the people of the city so interesting and so alive. SEE LINK HERE
WHAT MAKES THE JEPPESTOWN SITE A GOOD ZONE OF INTERACTION
WHAT TO TAKE FURTHER
With these aspects of this successful site where Jeppe park meets John Page road identified, the process can now begin to look at specific
interventions of hard infrastructure to facilitate these aspects being firstly improved and refined at this specific location, and then to package those
as a “toolkit” to be implemented in similar sites within Johannesburg city, and potentially further afield.
SEATING
TRADING SURFACE
PAVEMENTS
TREES AND SHADING
#INTERACTION_ARCHITECTURE
SOCIAL INTERACTION AS A PRODUCT OF URBAN, OPEN-SPACE DESIGN
FEBRUARY 18, 2015 / LEAVE A COMMENT
LOOKING BACK AT JEPPESTOWN
Looking at my time in Jeppestown, I was taken back to thinking about my
interactions with the various people and their various activities in the square
and the zone between the square and John Page drive. The importance of
these peoples interactions with others within the space on a daily basis also
became very prominent as a feature of the square.
see website detailing interactions: HERE
THINKING OF THE DOWNFALLS
With these experiences and knowledge of what went on in the square in terms of these social and business interactions I was drawn to how
isolated they were to this one point of where the square meets John Page drive and how the rest of the square predominantly lacked this level of
interaction. Apart from a few key moments through the day such as the school sports and people moving through the space, without taking in their
surroundings as they did, the square’s entirety remained underutilized.
WHY THESE DOWNFALLS?
The lack of sufficient ‘hard infrastructure,’ such as paths, seating, refuse bins, shade, minimal sidewalk widths can all be traced back to the lack of
interaction that happens across the majority of the square. Also the very hard boundaries in terms of what happens across the street from these
parts of the square can add to this as there is very little interaction between that and the square such as happens at the point where John Page
touches the NE corner of the square.
THE CHALLENGE
Can the hard infrastructure interventions be a catalyst for social interaction at a neighborhood level? Using the square in Jeppestown as a model
for implementing this, the goal will be to promote this social interaction between people that use, move through or just visit the square. By placing
the infrastructure for a wider range of activities within the square, the interactions that occur can grow through the square. If more of what people
need is there, they will go there or stop there more often, and through that interaction, trust and relationships grow.
#interaction_architecture #uj_unit2
PROPOSED ACTIVITY ZONES BETWEEN THE MOVEMENT PATHS AND SIDEWALKS OF USERS IN AND AROUND THE PARK
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JEPPESTOWN IMMERSION
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Jeppestown Immersion
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The question that I posed was: Who are the
people on the streets of Jeppestown? I
decided to focus on the grass square within
JEPPESTOWN IMMERSION
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Jeppestown because of the wide range of
activities that appeared to be taking place
there. Within the square the majority of
activity was happening at the North East
corner where the square met John Page
road, which was a major through route for
pedestrians travelling between the train
station and work. I engaged with the
people in this space in their daily activities, taking part in and sharing in what they were doing.
This approach allowed me to get a far more open response from people and uncover a huge
amount more than being too direct with the people in the form of an interview or a
questionnaire. These conversations also began to uncover a much wider network of their daily
interactions with people that lived in the area as well as people moving through the area.
The method for data collection I used was Instagram. This gave a threefold result for my
mapping. A graphic record, through videos and stills; a written note, recording names and
activities and finally it geo-tagged every post so that I had a map with each interaction on it so
that I could understand how the people and their different activities/reasons for being in
Jeppestown are distributed.
With this approach my knowledge of who the people were and what their activities were grew
exponentially with each person I met. It showed that this had become a zone between people
on the move and the park which was a place for more social activities for both residents and
passers-by within which the people and activities created a ‘micro community’ of interaction
and co-operation for all of their benefit.
Check out my website from the project with the collection of all my information and mapping:
WHOAREYOUJEPPESTOWN
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