context_2_day 1: WORDS, VIEWS, WALLS

Stage 2: Site: Analysis of Context

MO 7, THU 10, MO 14, THU 17, MO 24 April

A_ Starting Off

Words, Views, Walls

First impressions of a new place.

Personal observation, unstructured interviews, perceived boundaries.

B_ Contextual Analysis_Directed Fieldwork

Themes:

1- Past, present + future of de Villiers Road

2- Public open spaces and institutions on and around de Villiers Road

3- Shops and other economies of de Villiers Road

4- Building types along de Villiers Road

5- Houses, subdivisions and renting process on de Villiers Road

context 2_rosettenville

starting off (monday, 7.4.2014)

individual

words – what YOU think

write a text of 300 words about your ideas and first impressions about rosettenville, as honest and direct as possible, 

 

part a is anonymous and will be used to create a ‘word cloud’

to be submitted as a word document 

in groups of 2 students

views -  what OTHERS say (while YOU listen...)

talk casually to 2 residents of rosettenville and find out about their lives

where they come from

how they live, with whom they live, how they move

what language they speak

what they work as, what they would like to work as

what they like, whom they like

what they fear, whom they fear

favourite spot in rosettenville

most dangerous spot in rosettenville

record those unstructured interviews in writing, take a portrait of the residents, if they permit

to be submitted submit as print out and word document

walls – what YOU see

walls are one of the defining elements of the work of an architect. they define areas, carry loads, retain, fence off, protect, exclude, open up, fortify.  walls can be material and immaterial, hard and soft, shared, portable, defensive, cultural, political, personal.

identify 5 different types of walls that you encounter on your walk down De Villiers Street, from Main Road across the Rotonda Park, record and illustrate them in the given graphic  format.

to be submitted as print out, pdf and indesign document