ROSETTENVILLE STUDIO CALENDAR 2013/2014
2013 COURSES
2nd Yr Architects
ARPL2000
Architecture
Design Studio
(Kirsten
Doerman)
2nd Yr Planners
ARPL2006
Transport
Planning
Karam)
ARPL2009
ARPL2013
ARPL2014
(Aly
Histories
&
Futures
of
Planning
(Aly
Karam)
Introduction to
Land
Management
(Neil Klug)
Sustainable
Urban Design
(1.
Saphira
Patel 2. Diane
Long)
3rd Yr Planners
ARPL3006
Comparative
African
Cities
(Chloe Buire)
ARPL3013
People,
Places, Prejudices; Row Housing
Public Benches; Sports Centre
design;
As part of the Public Benches program, business cards
were created for the Park Hosts at their request.
An overview of policies, approaches and key issues
relating to the production and management of housing,
services, infrastructure and transport from a planning
perspective.
Investigating the influence of history on space and society.
Students looked at trading issues, trying to get a grasp on
the overall issues and challenges felt by the businesses.
The course covered different forms of land legal issues;
Land uses ; Land use management;
and different
approaches to land use regulation.
1. Introduction to the environment in general and the
relationship between the natural environment and
physical
development,
and
especially
urban
development.
2. GIS training was part of the course, with students
overlapping the GIS site investigation with the
assignment.
Decipher a sense of place of Rosettenville. How do
ordinary residents relate to their built environment? What
are the invisible values, symbols and representations that
they attach to their living space?
This course built a housing portrait of the Rosettenville
area through understanding current housing conditions and
ways of living
Housing theory,
concepts
&
policy
(Sarah
Charlton)
3rd Yr Urban Designers (in the BSc URP)
ARPL3012
Corridor
The space between two South African Icons: the Carlton
Cultures (Solam Centre and Nandos, looking carefully at what is there, now,
Makhubela)
then asked reasons why?
5th Yr Architects
ARPL7000
Thesis
by Architectural Thesis projects are year long, with the first
Gabrielle Serrao half of the year in analysis and research, and the second
half producing a design. Gabrielle focused on the public
spaces around Wemmerpan.
2013 RESEARCH
Mozambican Khangleani
Migration
Moyo & Erma
Cossa
La Rochelle has had an extra ordinary life cycle as a white
Portuguese ethnic enclave and over the last couple of
years taken an atypical trajectory that hardly fits the
traditional ethnic enclave classification. Importantly,
immigrants that move into ethnic enclaves often establish a
permanent presence in the chosen areas yet the
Mozambican presence in La Rochelle retains forms of
permanence but the individual constituents of this group
Safety
Obvious
Katsaura
Project
Evaluation
Ariane
Janse
van Rensburg
remain transient and impermanent within and outside of La
Rochelle.
Looking at the connection between religion and violence.
The assumption is that religion has something to do with
how people cope with the fear of violence in the city.
Therefore Is religion a safety net in terms of fear?
Investigation into the educational outcomes observed after
the Rosettenville Studio, using questionnaires to collect
qualitative feedback from students who were involved in
this project.
2013 CALENDAR OF EVENTS
15 May 2013
7 June 2013
12 August 2013
21-31 August 2013
9 October 2013
7 November 2013
25 November 2013
19 – 23 November
2013
2nd Semester
Histories & Futures of Planning class displays class assignment posters
on the streets where research was carried out, and presents outcomes
with passers by.
Lunch presentation by 2013 Rosettenville Studio Director Prof. Aly
Karam.
Street exhibition of class posters at strategic locations: Johannesburg
Road, Dias Mall beside Video Town, Pedestrian strip off Main Street.
‘Take a Seat’ display of designed and built park benches installed in
selected locations around La Rochelle public parks.
‘Talk to me’ random street discussions around La Rochelle &
Rosettenville to try to find out how a University Studio might benefit
residents.
Corridors of Freedom public meeting
Corridors of Freedom public meeting
Corridors of Freedom public meeting
Urban Lab+ colloquium about City Studio’s and pin up of Rosettenville
Studio work. Hosting guests from Germany, UK and India, including
Rosettenville tour.
Brown Bag open tutorials for all students doing work in Rosettenville.
Held weekly throughout 2nd Semester in the foyer. Selected special
guests attended to address various assignments, including Ward
Councillor, Metro Bus, other researchers.
2014 Courses
2nd Year Planners
ARPL2014
Sustainable
Urban Design (1.
Brian Boshoff & 2.
Diane Long)
ARPL 2009
Mobility
Patterns ? (Anisa
Desai)
1. A SWOT analysis of an area of a site in Rosettenville,
with a view to recommending a “sustainable”
revitalization of that site.
2. Within the GIS course, mapped the spatial
characteristics of the Rosettenville area. Added to this
students mapped some of the demographics of the area.
This is done in order to assist them in assessing the
sustainability of the study site as a whole.
The class looked at how people from Rosettenville (Informal
traders, school kids, piece job men from the park, business
owners and so forth) travel in and out of the area. Also
looking at how the ‘corridors of freedom’ project has not
really catered to their needs.
ARPL2013
Introduction
to
Land
Management
(Neil Klug)
ARPL2007
Development
Policy
&
Processes
(Amanda
Williamson)
2nd Year Architects
ARPL2000
Architecture
Design
Studio
(Kirsten
Doerman)
Photography
Elective
Sally Gaule
3rd Year Planners
ARPL 3023
Community
Participation
in
Urban
Governance
(Claire
BenitGbaffou)
ARPL3013
Housing theory,
concepts & policy
(Sarah Charlton)
Honours Year Architecture
BAS
Honours
Postgraduate
Program (Hilton
Judin, Hannah Le
Roux,
Craig
McClenaghan)
3rd Year Urban Design (BSc URP)
ARPL3012
Contemporary
Approaches
to
Urban Design
(Solam Mkhabela)
The course covered different forms of land legal issues and
management, comparing existing Land Use to City specified
Land Use, then analysing against the proposed Corridors of
Freedom Land Use.
A policy analysis of the Turffontein Strategic Area
Framework to explore its alignment with the National
Development Plan.
Design Studio, Design of habitable roofstructures, generally
as strategy of incremental densification, in particular for
Resthaven Baby Sanctuary, followed by field work on De
Villiers Street and surrounds to develop housing proposals
as comments on the official implementation plan of this
catalytic development precinct.
In this photography elective, the global INSIDE/OUT project
was used as a tool to share ‘wishes’ with people of
Rosettenville, in order to create a discussion with people
around the idea of what a community is. Installation was
carried out in 2 locations: 1) Corner of de Villiers Road near
Rotunda Park, 2) around the Rosettenville Primary School,
Main Street.
This political studies class interviewed Ward Councillors, and
one student (Bradley Peens) spent time with Councillor
Dennis Jane, a Rosettenville Ward Councillor.
This Housing class analyzed the state of housing in 2013 &
2014. In 2014 this course tried to understand more about
what housing was available for people living on less than the
people interviewed in 2013, i.e. those at the very low end of
the income pool, homeless people, and other support
available.
Three studios were run in this program:
1. Students looked to overhaul the public park in
Rosettenville by a radical reimagining of what takes
place, of who the public and audience are, and how this
evolving public interacts with a new program in the many
derelict, decaying or underutilized spaces
2. Interrelated two methods to generate proposals for the
future of this piece of landscape: one proposed a
resampling of the site’s assets that could intensify their
qualities through processes of working, distillation and
purification and the other relocated the site through
understanding it within dynamics of flow.
3. Students were required to respond to heritage and
landscape and distil programmatic potentials of the local
community struggling with social complexities.
Focusing on Johannesburg Road in La Rochelle, thi course
looked at ‘Contemporary Issues within Architecture + Urban
Design’, by unfolding the complexity of OpenSpace and
GreenSpace systems in Rosettenville through mapping the
larger and closer context of the site : physical form,
thresholds, historical development, edge conditions, social
and economic layers, urban politics and every day
narratives; understanding the relation of solids and voids as
intersection of architecture and urban design.
2014 RESEARCH (BSc URP Hons and MSc DP students)
Nkosilenhle
Looked at shared living spaces in residential units where
Mavuso
families share a house or room, to understand how La
Rochelle has densified, if there is any impact on the
Corridors of Freedom, and whether the City is aware of it
and taking cognisance.
Tamsyn
Empire – Perth corridor densification, and the link between
Groesser
existing conditions, the corridors plan, and how it’s factored
into policy. In particular trying to understand how City
officials think that the Corridors will create economic
growth.
Thato Nkoane
Looked at different experiences of black South African
women versus migrant women in La Rochelle.
Natasha
de Urban agriculture was part of the original design concept of
Santos
the Corridors, but has since disappeared from documents.
What are the spatial requirements for creating urban
agriculture ?
Bradley Peens
Exploring the participatory processes of the Corridors of
Freedom and what influence they had on the outcome.
Vanessa
Are corridors of Freedom efficiently focus on TransitSimoes
Oriented Development? Case of Turffontein
Development Corridor’.
2014 CALENDAR OF EVENTS
24 February 2014
13 March 2014
24 March 2014
9 April 2014
16 April 2014
14 May 2014
23 July 2014
2 August 2014
12 August 2014
6 October 2014
6 October 2014
18 October 2014
21 October 2014
29 October 2014
School talk: Corridors of Freedom, coordinated by Rosettenville Studio
Kirsten Doermann and Neil Klug participated in a round table discussion
hosted by Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, ‘Johannesburg’s Corridors of
Freedom, Town Planning Beyond the Apartheid City’
Attend Corridors of Freedom Public Meeting
Study group for researchers focusing on Corridors of Freedom or the
Rosettenville Area
Site tour for 2nd year planning students
Study group for researchers focusing on Corridors of Freedom or the
Rosettenville Area
Study group for researchers focusing on Corridors of Freedom or the
Rosettenville Area
2nd Year Architecture studio street installation and event on De Villiers
Road
Workshop hosted by GIZ with architecture and planning students, on
safety, security and safe spaces
Research
School Talk by Tinus Kruger, CSIR – organised by Rosettenville
Studio, supported by GIZ. Exploring the relationship between crime and
crime prevention, and the physical environment.
SERI/ CUBES Workshop with residents from Rosettenville and Yeoville
areas, to review, test and feedback on the tenants rights booklets
produced in 2013 out of Yeoville Studio
Inside/Out street exhibition in Rosettenville installed by photography
elective students
An Urban Scan: Exhibition in John Moffat by ARPL 3012 Urban Design
class