Research

Final thesis for Architecture Degree

My final thesis was about Urban housing and revitalization, in the context of a post apartheid Johannesburg. On a broader level, it looked at the Urban redevelopment policies and access to housing for the new South African context and the reality facing the new ANC government. Here I argued for “City lead change, meaning urban mass housing projects as infill projects, as well as planned high rise new districts, but always consolidating and trying to repair the central city, which in apartheid planning had almost no one living.

Urban Features Research project-1998

In colaboration with the Transitional Metro council of Johannesburg an evaluation of the building s stock in the Old CBD was crucual, as urban decay was setting in fast, building were being overcrowded and squatted, or simply locked up. Other buildings were abandoned by owners who could not pay rates and taxes and service, as well as the building being hijacked, which means taken over by a slumlord and rented out.

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