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Engaging homelessness: Facilitating change through architectural intervention
This dissertation engages with the issue of homelessness in the City of Cape Town. It makes use of existing literature and research on homelessness to frame the severity of the issue. Furthermore, it surfaces the lived experience of homelessness through first-hand accounts of living on the street, h...
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| author | Louw, Christopher |
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| description | This dissertation engages with the issue of homelessness in the City of Cape Town. It makes use of existing literature and research on homelessness to frame the severity of the issue. Furthermore, it surfaces the lived experience of homelessness through first-hand accounts of living on the street, highlighting the challenges faced and survival strategies implemented by homeless individuals. The response focuses in part to meet the immediate needs of homeless individuals by creating a safe zone in which the activities of the home can be carried out. Furthermore, the intent is to engage with the homeless population across a range of thresholds, allowing them the autonomy to filter into a newly facilitated network that works with existing infrastructure to guide individuals on a journey off the street. The Dissertation culminates in a speculative design project near the fringe of Cape Town's CBD. The project deals with an undeveloped parcel of land, as well as the addition to and alterations of an existing Salvation Army building. |
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/28017 Engaging homelessness: Facilitating change through architectural intervention Louw, Christopher Fellingham, Kevin Coetzer, Nic Architecture This dissertation engages with the issue of homelessness in the City of Cape Town. It makes use of existing literature and research on homelessness to frame the severity of the issue. Furthermore, it surfaces the lived experience of homelessness through first-hand accounts of living on the street, highlighting the challenges faced and survival strategies implemented by homeless individuals. The response focuses in part to meet the immediate needs of homeless individuals by creating a safe zone in which the activities of the home can be carried out. Furthermore, the intent is to engage with the homeless population across a range of thresholds, allowing them the autonomy to filter into a newly facilitated network that works with existing infrastructure to guide individuals on a journey off the street. The Dissertation culminates in a speculative design project near the fringe of Cape Town's CBD. The project deals with an undeveloped parcel of land, as well as the addition to and alterations of an existing Salvation Army building. 2018-05-08T14:04:55Z 2018-05-08T14:04:55Z 2018 Master Thesis Masters MArch (Prof) http://hdl.handle.net/11427/28017 eng application/pdf School of Architecture, Planning and Geomatics Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment University of Cape Town |
| spellingShingle | Architecture Louw, Christopher Engaging homelessness: Facilitating change through architectural intervention |
| thesis_degree_str | Master's |
| title | Engaging homelessness: Facilitating change through architectural intervention |
| title_full | Engaging homelessness: Facilitating change through architectural intervention |
| title_fullStr | Engaging homelessness: Facilitating change through architectural intervention |
| title_full_unstemmed | Engaging homelessness: Facilitating change through architectural intervention |
| title_short | Engaging homelessness: Facilitating change through architectural intervention |
| title_sort | engaging homelessness facilitating change through architectural intervention |
| topic | Architecture |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/28017 |
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