@ Byron; something like this?

Hi

Just to let you guys know where we are in Pretoria. We have recently handed the first draft of the first three chapters of our dissertation in for comment, the revised copy which we hand-in soon will be marked, and these marks will count towards our coursework mark.

The first three chapters are basically an introduction to the project, in terms of concept, location, and theoretical approach. So basically the general background and aims.

We also have an ENORMOUS context model of the Baixa. At scale 1:1000 it is 2,5 meters long! Ill blog some photos sometime.

Soon we will also complete a detailed urban 'framework' and analysis. But the design only starts later when we have all of this other stuff sorted out.

Lekker

Byron

+258 posting

dropbox update from +258 dudes: statistics and mapping on social-economical studies on baixa. hope it helps u guys.


regards,
carla

Check out these websites, fowarded to me by Edna and Catherine. I found the xirico one quite usefull. Its even better if you get google to translate the page, then you can look at the pictures AND read the caption.

http://memoria-africa.ua.pt/collections/AFDCM/tabid/174/language/pt-PT/Default.aspx

http://www.xirico.com/c_htm/tri/home.php

http://edomingos.tripod.com/id1.html

Lekker

Byron

initial rough frameworks

hey guys, some of the initial rough framework ideas from the Prettoria guys, not in final presentation format by any means... J

Sketch assignment week 1

The essence of the Biaxa, by Carlos. For all sketches, download the following:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6434460/MAPUTO%20STUDIO%202011-2012/Sketch%20assignment%20week%201.zip

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P1 presentation Sjoerd

click on the image for the full download:





In four weeks Maputo, points of interest have been accumulating and translated to text and image. In order to get grip on these subjects, the cacophony of ideas were filtered to a residue of 3 projects that overlap each other in a certain area, and totally differ in other parts. The challenge that is being faced at this point of the design process is the decision what role these three will play in the subject of the final project. Within the spectrum of the physical, social, political, economical and environmental subjects that these projects touch upon the degree of intervention has to be determined.

Tears of joy and agitation.

Welcome to Lagos, BBC documentary on (again) this city in Nigeria. Very impressive, watch it!

dropbox

Students of E.M thanks for the info on the dropbox account. We will finalize our booklet and it will be posted this week. Good that its working and the communication is on!

Maybe nice when busy with design to upload a small image or sceme on the blog. We will keep you posted.

Besides a collage of the daily life in Maputo and the Baixa.

Paper showing historic and contemporary development of Maputo

We've seen allot of this stuff before, but this document is in English which might help some. It was presented at the African Perspectives conference in Pretoria in 2009


http://web.up.ac.za/sitefiles/file/44/1068/3229/9086/African%20Perspectives/PDF/Papers/Jenkins.pdf

Baixa monies

The project has been submitted to Nuffic -- we have to keep fingers crossed what we may collect to enable the summerschool in Delft. It is of high importance to show as much as possible interaction and production on the site and blog as to convince the donors!