Roots or routes: A case for vertical farming allotments in Dunoon quarry

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dc.contributor.advisorCoetzer, Nicen_ZA
dc.contributor.advisorFellingham, Kevinen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorMadyibi, Nwabisaen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2018-05-14T12:28:42Z
dc.date.available2018-05-14T12:28:42Z
dc.date.issued2018en_ZA
dc.description.abstractThis dissertation departs with an enduring interest in the social Milieu and the future projections of the fringes of South African major cities, specifically Cape Town, as urbanization broadens, transforms and makes the edge more complex. This document analyses this phenomenon in Dunoon Township and presents a case for vertical allotment farming in this context. The research, looks at this phenomenon as a narrative of land ownership in its most physical depictions, such as the story of the ownership of land to reap resources as the physical phenomenon of an abandoned quarry. This project acknowledges the danger and light treading around contentious environments, such as townships, which seem to create architecture that aggravates protest and vandalism, but chooses to counteract the pervasive 'headline-ing' of these areas by showing a township, Dunoon, as quotidian. This document does this by engaging with the life around the edge of the oldest quarry in the Durbanville Hills area - Once a source of great benefit and value to its immediate environment - now a fenced off cesspit for crime and superstition. An empathetic attitude towards considering material developed within the immediate environment to create value, as opposed to sourcing it from outside, is a founding precept for the design endeavour. The project can be described as a process which began by understanding the stagnant water within the basin of the quarry, what systems already exist to bring value to the urban fabric, and how the water can be best used in its mundane life. Beauty, viewed through the lens of this document, is something that brings undeniable usefulness to an area. That is the intervention of a wasted public space with rancid polluted water into clean usable water for a community suffering crippling rates of water shortage and cut-offs. It aims to put permaculture ideals into use by routing the stagnant water and making it into a system that consistently cleans itself over time. Routed water embeds a logic that becomes the catalyst for the fulfilment of a bio-inspired future -of which I emphatically advocate. This dissertation seeks to create an intervention which should encourage a new relationship with water in Dunoon. It is through a gathering of found program; farmers, NGO facilitators, walkers, joggers without tracks, children without playgrounds, women without laundry water tipping points, that the community is brought together in the water world of Dunoon quarry.en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationMadyibi, N. (2018). <i>Roots or routes: A case for vertical farming allotments in Dunoon quarry</i>. (Thesis). University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Engineering & the Built Environment ,School of Architecture, Planning and Geomatics. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/28060en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationMadyibi, Nwabisa. <i>"Roots or routes: A case for vertical farming allotments in Dunoon quarry."</i> Thesis., University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Engineering & the Built Environment ,School of Architecture, Planning and Geomatics, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/28060en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationMadyibi, N. 2018. Roots or routes: A case for vertical farming allotments in Dunoon quarry. University of Cape Town.en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Madyibi, Nwabisa AB - This dissertation departs with an enduring interest in the social Milieu and the future projections of the fringes of South African major cities, specifically Cape Town, as urbanization broadens, transforms and makes the edge more complex. This document analyses this phenomenon in Dunoon Township and presents a case for vertical allotment farming in this context. The research, looks at this phenomenon as a narrative of land ownership in its most physical depictions, such as the story of the ownership of land to reap resources as the physical phenomenon of an abandoned quarry. This project acknowledges the danger and light treading around contentious environments, such as townships, which seem to create architecture that aggravates protest and vandalism, but chooses to counteract the pervasive 'headline-ing' of these areas by showing a township, Dunoon, as quotidian. This document does this by engaging with the life around the edge of the oldest quarry in the Durbanville Hills area - Once a source of great benefit and value to its immediate environment - now a fenced off cesspit for crime and superstition. An empathetic attitude towards considering material developed within the immediate environment to create value, as opposed to sourcing it from outside, is a founding precept for the design endeavour. The project can be described as a process which began by understanding the stagnant water within the basin of the quarry, what systems already exist to bring value to the urban fabric, and how the water can be best used in its mundane life. Beauty, viewed through the lens of this document, is something that brings undeniable usefulness to an area. That is the intervention of a wasted public space with rancid polluted water into clean usable water for a community suffering crippling rates of water shortage and cut-offs. It aims to put permaculture ideals into use by routing the stagnant water and making it into a system that consistently cleans itself over time. Routed water embeds a logic that becomes the catalyst for the fulfilment of a bio-inspired future -of which I emphatically advocate. This dissertation seeks to create an intervention which should encourage a new relationship with water in Dunoon. It is through a gathering of found program; farmers, NGO facilitators, walkers, joggers without tracks, children without playgrounds, women without laundry water tipping points, that the community is brought together in the water world of Dunoon quarry. DA - 2018 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2018 T1 - Roots or routes: A case for vertical farming allotments in Dunoon quarry TI - Roots or routes: A case for vertical farming allotments in Dunoon quarry UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/28060 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/28060
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationMadyibi N. Roots or routes: A case for vertical farming allotments in Dunoon quarry. [Thesis]. University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Engineering & the Built Environment ,School of Architecture, Planning and Geomatics, 2018 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/28060en_ZA
dc.language.isoengen_ZA
dc.publisher.departmentSchool of Architecture, Planning and Geomaticsen_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Engineering and the Built Environment
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.subject.otherArchitectureen_ZA
dc.titleRoots or routes: A case for vertical farming allotments in Dunoon quarryen_ZA
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