INTRODUCTION
Background …
Urban informality has grown to a point where it has become a very dominant feature of the cityscapes in Latin America, Asia and Africa (Hernández and Kellet, 2011:1). It remained the spectacle of the ―static‖ and formal city which has no meaning for the people in the informal environment.
Motivation/Justification of the study
The architectural built form (which is the dominant element in these cities) must transform into a new typology that will be able to accommodate this ever-growing phenomenon that has become an integral part of the cities in the above-mentioned continents. This research therefore seeks to define an architectural built form typology inspired by urban informality to accommodate and facilitate people's daily lives in the informal urban context.
Definition of the Problem, Aims and Objectives …
- Definition of terms
- Definition of the Problem …
- Aims and Objectives …
The formally derived built form in the informal urban context is considered outdated by its inhabitants due to its rigid and static nature within a constantly changing and transforming context. This will involve looking at how people within the informal urban context shape their existing physical and spatial environment to suit their needs.
Setting Out the Scope
- Delimitation of Research Problem
- Stating the Assumptions
- Hypothesis
- Key Questions
- Sub questions
The basic principles that define urban informality as an environment that is versatile and flexible can be used to define a new built form that is more appropriate in its use and relevance in the informal urban context. How the basic principles of urban informality can help define a new architectural built form that is considered appropriate and meaningful within the informal urban context.
Key Theories and Concepts
- Introduction
- Theories
- Organised complexity
- Structuration of Power and Control
- Concepts
- Hybridisation
- Strategy and tactics
In the context of the research, "agency" can be understood as people in a formal urban context who have the power to change their built environment to suit their needs, and "structure" can be understood as a built form, as it is a resource with certain rules by which it operates' agency'. These aspects of hybridization also give the concept a subversive rather than descriptive quality, adding greater depth to the concept and its impact on the built.
Research Methods and Materials
- Research Methods
- Primary Data
- Case studies
- Qualitative Interviews …
- Secondary Data
- Literature review
- Precedent studies
Etna is located in the heart of the informal commercial part of the area. All functions that take place in the building must be based on informal.
STRUCTURATION OF POWER AND CONTROL
Introduction
The area highlighted in red is the informal urban context in which the urban informality under discussion exists. The research will then outline an interpretive mediation process involving people in an informal urban context and the principles they have established to define urban informality, which will be used to create a meaningful built form that facilitates their principles.
Postcolonial informal cities
The colonial cities were also seen by the colonials as political instruments to demonstrate their dominance and enforce this ideology, the colonials reflected this in the configuration of the urban fabric. The formalization process of the urban structure in the informal urban context identifies elites as primary.
Mobilisation of Power through the Master Planning Approach. 22
- Empowerment through Community Participation .…. 26
According to (Lara) although some (if not most) of the buildings and spaces within the. The functions within that built form also have something that contributes to the growth of the communities in the informal urban context.
UNDERLYING PRINCIPLES OF URBAN INFORMALITY
Introduction
But in joining together to form this context, they also had to involve each other, on a social and physical level, to sustain and maintain some kind of local stability, and in the process they had to form principles that (and are) informally implied; widely sanctioned; and often invoked and used in interaction rituals and daily routines that then defined how urban informality works. This process involves breaking down urban informality into smaller, more tangible factors that can be analyzed to see the influence they have on each other and their potential in generating a meaningful built form.
Defining principles of urban informality
- Socio-Economic principles of urban informality …
- Principle of Emergence: a concept that defines the
- Principle of a culture of urban informality
This implementation and adaptation process also applies to the informal urban context in the city where street vendors undergo a similar process to find their ground within the city. People in the informal urban context form a tight network, facilitated by their defined adapted context, and depend on each other for their growth.
Conclusion
It is not enough to understand the physical processes that shape the informality of cities and the effects these processes can have on the built form. The second principle is the concept of emergence, which determines the development of the informal nature of cities.
HYBRIDIZING THE UNDERLYING PRINCIPLES
- Introduction
- Towards a Participatory Built Form
- Support structure: an indeterminate built form
- Conclusion
They are the key to the future change of the building by its inhabitants laid in the planning of the buildings. Position held: One of the urban designers involved in making the facility.
KEY PRECEDENT STUDIES
Introduction
Even though there are similarities here and there between the two precedent studies, it was not essential that the buildings share the same selection criteria or be analyzed under the same conditions. The most important thing was that they are related to the theoretical framework so each study offers something new until the last and this process helps to generate diverse and useful guidelines that will be used for the field of design.
AN INDETERMINATE BUILT FORM
- Introduction and Justification
- Location and Social context
- Support structure: an indeterminate built form
- Conclusion
During the design phase, the future occupants of the building were seen as participatory agents who had the same power over the configuration of the built form as the design professionals. This case study was chosen to illustrate how the basic principles defining the informal urban context of the barrio community were enabled and hybridized with the built form to form an undefined building. To achieve this, the building was based on a concept of layers (refer to Illustration 6.2.3) and the order of the layers (each with different functions) was determined by the relationship between its location and context.
The configuration of the built form itself falls short of actually defining or generating a built form based on the principles of urban informality, in the same way that the planning of the facilities was done. It will be used as a case study to illustrate how the formal built form responded to the needs of the people in the informal urban context and whether it was influenced (in any way) by the principles developed informally by the people before this was developed. . This also means that the built form is indirectly generated by the underlying principles developed by the people, as each phase of the building is designed to be configured to suit their tactics.
ORGANISED COMPLEXITY – LESSONS FROM AN
- Introduction and Justification
- Historical Context
- Social context
- The daily commuters
- Traders
- Underlying Principles of Urban Informality
- Mount Enta: Informal Adaptation of a Formal
- Justification of case study
- Historical origins
- Strategy and Tactics
- Conclusion
The analysis of the case study will also include people on the ground in their. It will also illustrate the applicability of the principles defining urban informality discussed in the theoretical framework in the South African context. Around this time, the little available land in the informal area also began to become a central transportation hub for people who worked in the city but lived on the outskirts of the city.
All the platforms recognize that the people (described as the end users) are always on the move, so they open up to the people they are moving to. After seeing this, the owners of the building (through some sort of consultation with construction professionals) developed a new clip-on addition to the original Mount Etna building. It started as part of a residential area and now it is part of the Warwick area.
CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS
Introduction
Conclusion and Recommendations
This means that there is no set formula that can determine the future states of urban informality, and this suggests that the built form should be configured as an architecture of 'possibility'. All these principles of urban informality combine to create an indeterminate built form that its inhabitants can adapt to future forms of urban informality and the informal urban context that enables it. This process, defined as community participation, empowers people in a given context to influence the way they want the built form to be configured in order to facilitate their form of urban informality.
This strategy also has the benefit of ensuring that whatever built form is generated will be of some value and meaning to people in the informal urban context, as they have the opportunity to impose tactics they have developed in the configuration of the built form. its origins. The Baragwaneth taxi stand proved that it is feasible to build an indeterminate built form in the South African context by planning it in phases and basing the construction of the future phases of the built form on the tactics developed by the people before . This constituted a participatory built form in which everyone has significant power to influence the configuration of the built form.
Conclusion
This will be carried out by the architect in consultation with all relevant stakeholders. As a result, there is often a lot of waste lying on the side of the road next to the sorting plant. Some informal traders come only at certain times of the week to sell special goods.
It has the potential to act as a transition as it is located in the middle of the main road of the area and the railway station. The premises are located within walking distance of all the major markets of Warwick, that is to say the intervention envisaged by the client must also be done in the same light, ie the challenges and potential opportunities that present themselves to the traders of Warwick present, must be understood, experiences, and analyzed through the eyes of the informal traders.
Tactic (which is a temporal use of space) is a very important element in the expression of identity and the uniqueness of the place defined by people. The building scale should be physically and visually permeable to encourage movement from the edges into the building.
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