Building Site: London Rd/8th. Ave

Building Site:  London Rd/8th. Ave
February 13.2010

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

plans of existing building


















the plans of the existing building are now available @ Sarah's office,
they are too b ig to send by mail!!

formats: jpg and pdf!

Monday, February 22, 2010

lecture on March 1st 2010, 18:00, attention new venue!

























"Readymix Architecture" is the term Tusnovics has coined for his extremely rapid construction of community buildings in rural and township areas. This idea runs in counterpoint to the usual "solutions" to "Poverty Relief", as it sets up apolemic which directly engages the contemporary South African "roll-out" of non-urban RDP housing that currently holds us hostage. Tusnovics's are inventive and climatologically sensitive buildings that are consciously “communityforming”.
These projects are not the usual run of the mill NGO fare, but demonstrate a sustainability and design integrity that are able to mount an instant critique of the way most things are "provided" to townships and rural areas.
All these projects directly engage the "public" realm, a realm that is notably unconstructed in most low-cost South African 'urban' developments.

text by Sarah Calburn

Thursday, February 18, 2010

Sunday, February 14, 2010

Car, bicycle, bus

This image always sums up for me the way we SHOULD be looking at transport and movement of people as opposed to the way we DO - especially in South Africa.

A poster from the City of Muenster (Germany) planning office, created apparently in 2001, shows the space required to transport the same number of passengers by car, bus, or bicycle.