Publication 401 W110 - Informal Settlemen ts and Affordable Housing DURBAN 2014 Proceedings W110 - Informal Settlements and Affordable Housing W110 Durban 2014 Proceedings W110 papers presented as part of the Proceedings of the UIA Congress: Architecture Otherwise Resilience - Ecology - Values, held on 3-7 August 2014 in Durban, South Africa CIB Publication 401 UlA20l40UBBAil Architect|Jr0 0Tl|tRlllliltRt PAHI0: [|B tlUll0 l]tlt0R]tilAt StilLtMIltlISAttl0 AIr0H0ABtt t|0USIIIG Thesecond Programme Partner linked to the InternationalCouncil for Researchand Innovationin Buitdingand Construction (ClB) is: CIBW 110 InformalSettlements and Affordable Housing, This international research group engages with issuesof sustainabtelivetihoods and community participation in informalsetttements as wetlas howthe exchangeof technologymay be achieved towards the developmentof the physicat, socialand economic conditions of humansetttements. The commission also exptores topics on the provisionof affordabtehousing across the whote housing market. HappyRatna Santosa, Professor in Architecture,is Headof the Laboratoryof Housingand Human Setttementsat the Institut TeknotogiSeputuh Nopember, Indonesia (2008-present). She has futfitl.edvarious rotes atthe ITSsince 1975 inctuding the Directorof the Post-GraduateProgramme (2003-2007)and Head ofthe Poputationand EnvironmentaI Research Centre (1988-1997). AmiraOsman,Associate Professoratthe Universityof Johannesburg, isthe UlA2014 Durban GeneraI Reporter.She studied at the Universityof Khartoum,obtained a diptomafrom the lnstitutefor Housing Studies(lHS), Rotterdam and a PhDfrom the Universityof Pretoria.She is a registeredarchitect and ratedNRF researcher. UlA20l40URBAI'l Archilerlttrs 0Tl|tRli|llltRt "'!;nri ; ;* ;Fr#l{il$ftffi{"ilffi*lj$lftfi IO78 ECOLOGICALCATHARSIS THROUGH URBAN ACUPUNCTURE Ali ArsalanPasha Siddiqui 1083 FROMCHAOSTOORDER:ACONTEXT-SPECIFICDESIGNRESPONSEFORKHUTSONG SECTION INFORMAL SETTLEMENT,IVORY PARK MIDRAND, JOHANNESBURG, SOUTHAFRICA EmmanuelNkambule 1109 HOUSINGAFFORDABILITY IN NIGERIA Odunjo Oluronke OmololaokanlawonSimon Ayorinde, Baba Abiola Olayemi 1115 SMALLSCATEREALESTATESDEVELOPMENTANDSPATIALPII\NNING'ADJUSTMENT' IN SURABAYA,INDONESIA IspurwonoSoemarno; Erwin Sudarma 1L24 HOUSING CONSOLIDATION:INNOVATIVE ATTEMPTS OF HOUSEHOLDS IN CONSOLIDATIONOF LOW COSTHOUSING IN SOUTHAFRICA JudithT Ojo-Aromokudu IL3L A SPACEEXPANSION MODEL FOR PRODUCTIVEHOUSING IN FISH PROCESSING KAMPUNG Adinda Sih P.R.Utami, Happy R. Santosa, I G,N, Antaryama IL4I ANALYSISOF FACTORSAFFECTING UTILITY IN RESIDENTIALBUILDINGS AT EREKESANURBAN-CORE AKURE, SOUTH-WESTERN NIGERIA FashuyiOlugbenga Stephen IL48 UNDERSTANDINGURBAN FORM AND SPACE PRODUCTION IN INFORMAT SETTLEMENTS:THE TOI MARKETIN NAIROBI,KENYA GeorgiaCardosi, Gonzalo Lizarralde 1165 THE FORECASTOF THE DEVELOPMENTTREND ABOUT EFFECTIVE ARCHITECTURE HeJunhua LL73 URBANPOVERTYAND HOUSING INADEQUACIES IN NIGERIA:NEED FOR INTERVENTIONIN THE COREAREAS OF CITIES 0dunjo, OluronkeOmolola, Okanlawon, Simon Ayorinde LL97 STUDY ON THE INNOVATIVEAPPLICATION OF BAMBOO.CABLECOMPOSITE STRUCTURES YuguangFu, Liyao Hu, Yuqing Hu, Xian He L2O4 CONTRADICTIONSOF DESIGNING"GREEN" CITIES: INTEGRATION OF THE TERM "GREEN"TO UNLIMITEDGROWTH IN ISTANBUL EceDemir UlA20l4DUBBAiI Architeclttre 0Tl|tHllilltfit :,l'f*'1 1:, iii,ll*:r$li ##*:;rufi 121.4 THE RURAL AREA AS AN URBAN DEVELOPMENTMODET THAT DIFFERSFROM THAT OFTHE MEGAURBAN AFRICAN TOWNS OF THE FUTURE:MATERI, BENIN PatriziaMontini Zimolo,Flavia Vacchec Gildas K. Sambieni,Sandro Toffoli, Romano Volpato,Carlo Piccoli, Giuditta Rado, Italo Rebuli 1227 UPGRADINGHISTORICAT AREAS SURROUNDED BY INFORMATSETTLEMENTS RawiaHammouda, Tarek Sobhy 1233 ARKWRIGHT TOWN AND THE ELDONIANS:EVALUATION OF SOCIO-ECONOMIC AND PSYCHOLOGICALASPECTS OF TWO DISPTACEDCOMMUNITIES IN THE UNITED KINGDOM TessaBrunette, Gerda Spelle4, Martin Watson T24O GREEN INFMSTRUCTURE AND ECOSYSTEMSERVICES IN INFORMAT URBAN SETTLEMENTS OlumuyiwaBayode Adegun L27l RESEARCHON CONSTRUCTIONOF INDEMNIFICATORYCOMMUNITIES IN NANIING AND OPTIMIZINGSTRATEGIES BASED ON MIXEDHOUSING MODE WangHui, Wu Xiao,Qiang Huan-huan, Liu Xi-hui L279 THE INHERITANCEAND APPLICATIONOF ECOLOGICALTHEORY OF TRADITIONAL HOUSES:TAKING HUIZHOU HOUSESASAN EXAMPLE MengXiaodong lZ83 POSSIBITITIESOF DIATOGUE:THE CASEOF THE TRANS-LOCALURBAN ARTISTIC RESEARCHPROIECT NrNE URBAN BTOTOPES Christianvon Wissel,Alison Rooke L293 CHANGESAND UPDATESIN THE TEACHINGOF ARCHITECTURE.TEARNING FROM INFORMALCITIES Maria F.Canteiro Neto, Jorge H. CanastraMarum 1304 EVALUATING THE FUNCTIONAL PERFORMANCEOF SMALL-SCALE PUBLIC DEMOUNTABLEBUILDINGS JunjieXi UIA2014 DURBAN Architecture OTHERWHERE CIB W110 INFORMAL SETTLEMENTS & AFFORDABLE HOUSING ! ECOLOGICAL CATHARSIS THROUGH URBAN ACUPUNCTURE Ali Arsalan Pasha Siddiqui, NesPak Ltd., Pakistan/Middle East Technical University, Turkey, [email protected] ABSTRACT Buildings as living machines entails the implication that context is merely a consequence of the geo-political dynamic between built forms, rather than a discernible progression of spatial motivations. Considering a broader perspective of terming cities as ecosystems that engage through a variety of interaction points, it is evident that the synergy of natural processes maintains its own progression independent of architectural intervention. The nature of public space and the genetic grains of urban fabric are similar, terming context as the precursor to architectural intervention rather than its sequential result. The traditional interactive relationships between natural ecosystems and built environment influenced by local culture and identity are gradually deteriorating; causing cities to lose their distinctive cultural identity and urban landscapes. If we consider the city as a living being in and of itself, growing exclusive of the built environment as an emergent entity similar to the cyclic evolution of a neural network, we can associate that both have an interconnected network structure and sustain the capacity to adapt and self-organize by manipulating morphogenetic information. Successful examples of such cities evolve in a very specific manner, retaining older patterns while responding to change by adding novel adaptations. As a result, a thorough initiative to engage the communities in active participation of urban renewal needs to be conducted, where individuals learn how to produce small-scale socially catalytic interventions through urban acupuncture, leading to the transformation of a larger urban context. The objective of this research is to establish the need to understand the paradigm of urban ecosystems and how the built environment is shaped through it, while investigating the phenomena of cultural landscape and ecology as part of city image. Cities with engaged communities are more resilient and adaptive, gearing their activities towards poverty alleviation and the achievement of sustainable ecological communities. KEYWORDS: Urban Acupuncture, Neural Network, Sustainable Neighbourhoods INTRODUCTION The city represents a multi-layered progression, similar to the transmission of multiple ripples; which conflict with each other and struggle to reach an equilibrium. Most architects have thoroughly emphasised the importance of understanding buildings as living entities, which grow and evolve with time. One could inquire why the built form is attributed a temporal and corporeal identity, while the urban fabric that houses the structure is simply considered as a consequence of geo-political dynamics between built forms. Context, which is observed as a mode of reference for architectural intervention, should be rightfully defined as an evident progression of spatial motivations, terming the city as a living ecosystem which maintains its own growth independent of architectural interference. The aim of this paper is to highlight the importance of observing the city as a living ecosystem, in lieu of which, lead to an observation of the processes and urban practices that give shape to public space. Since city infrastructure and built environment always need to undergo comprehensive revitalization, it would bode well to consider public space, as Lefebvre said, as a ‘the space thus produced also serves as a tool of thought and of action’, hence encouraging analysis on the processes of spatial production rather than merely the space itself. In this essence, it would be beneficial to consider the individual and communal motivations that give shape to the public space and are the core foundations of the city as an ecosystem. Far from a mechanical attribute, such an ecosystem is a living entity which consistently evolves and undergoes catharsis, as a means of purification and growth. ECOLOGICAL ECUMENOPOLIS In order to understand the dynamics associated with the evolution of cities as living entities, it is crucial to understand why cities exist; where to understand why cities exist we may begin by postulating a world without cities. Although they are characterised has highly complex spatial phenomenon, cities can be categorically defined by assessing a settlement with regards to productivity. The distinction of cities from large settlements took place, when not all inhabitants of a certain locale were engaged in agrarian activities, giving rise to specialised occupations, such as trade and food storage. For a world without cities 1078 UIA2014 DURBAN Architecture OTHERWHERE CIB W110 INFORMAL SETTLEMENTS & AFFORDABLE HOUSING ! to exist, each individual must engage in equal productivity, making them responsible