A design by research project involving the community of Slovo Park, Nancefield, Johannesburg. 

The project falls within an urban design investigation titled Slovo Spaza (2014) that proposed the possibility of developing the extant internal economy of the area using the added material potential that moves through the area through a network of recyclers. 

 

The project advocates an incremental approach that begins as a recycling station. The design creates critical anchor points to guide the projected development into an actupunctural facility that serves as a teaching, workshop and retail space for proposed industrial and function craft networks within Slovo Park. 

 

A conceptual urban approach illustrates the incremental transformation of a township street without services into somewhat of a high-street for living, trade and industry. There is something about identity and belonging in there. There's also the assumed involement of the community - whose current observed reality these ideas are founded within.