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Anticipated informality: The incremental development of resilience in the marginalised community of Plastic View
Mini Dissertation (MArch(Prof))--University of Pretoria, 2021.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/83358 Anticipated informality: The incremental development of resilience in the marginalised community of Plastic View Hugo, Jan nickramsey47@gmail.com Combrinck, Carin Ramsey, Nicholas UCTD Resilience Urban settlements Informal settlement Plastic view Infrastructure Adaptation Appropriation Vulnerability Engineering, built environment and information technology theses SDG-10 Engineering, built environment and information technology theses SDG-11 Engineering, built environment and information technology theses SDG-17 Mini Dissertation (MArch(Prof))--University of Pretoria, 2021. The informal settlements of South Africa are commonly marginalised urban systems existing within larger formal urban landscapes. Due to their marginalisation, informal settlements often lack formal infrastructure, socio-economic opportunities and a sense of permanence, which in turn challenges their resilience. Focusing on the Plastic View informal settlement in Moreleta Park, the dissertation investigates architecture’s ability to contribute towards the settlement’s capacity to adapt or transform to desirable states when disturbed. The “safe-to-fail” system approach (Ahern 2011) is used to develop an architectural response that caters for continuous appropriation and adaptation by the local community. In order to understand and reinterpret Plastic View’s innate socio-spatial organisation and construction knowledge, a pattern language of the settlement is documented. This framework informs the design process from initial explorations through to technical and material resolution. The investigation into Plastic View’s internal resilience and prevailing vulnerabilities leads to a multifunctional intervention along the settlement’s emerging high street. The architecture addresses the settlement’s critical infrastructural deficit, whilst proposing diverse responses to housing and public space demands. The various avenues discussed in the dissertation, including community engagement, transformative participation, incremental upgrading and anticipated settlement growth, collectively assist with the improvement of Plastic View’s resilience and local living conditions. mi2026 Architecture MArch (Prof) Unrestricted SDG-10: Reduced inequalities SDG-11: Sustainable cities and communities SDG-17: Partnerships for the goals 2022-01-18T08:05:07Z 2022-01-18T08:05:07Z 2022 2021 Mini Dissertation * A2022 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/83358 en © 2019 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | UCTD Resilience Urban settlements Informal settlement Plastic view Infrastructure Adaptation Appropriation Vulnerability Engineering, built environment and information technology theses SDG-10 Engineering, built environment and information technology theses SDG-11 Engineering, built environment and information technology theses SDG-17 Anticipated informality: The incremental development of resilience in the marginalised community of Plastic View |
| title | Anticipated informality: The incremental development of resilience in the marginalised community of Plastic View |
| title_full | Anticipated informality: The incremental development of resilience in the marginalised community of Plastic View |
| title_fullStr | Anticipated informality: The incremental development of resilience in the marginalised community of Plastic View |
| title_full_unstemmed | Anticipated informality: The incremental development of resilience in the marginalised community of Plastic View |
| title_short | Anticipated informality: The incremental development of resilience in the marginalised community of Plastic View |
| title_sort | anticipated informality the incremental development of resilience in the marginalised community of plastic view |
| topic | UCTD Resilience Urban settlements Informal settlement Plastic view Infrastructure Adaptation Appropriation Vulnerability Engineering, built environment and information technology theses SDG-10 Engineering, built environment and information technology theses SDG-11 Engineering, built environment and information technology theses SDG-17 |
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