Precedent – Studio Basel

For precedent and concepts as to how to consolidate and present the material, especially to assist in the presentations next week look at Studio Basel

http://www.studio-basel.arch.ethz.ch/
click on Projects
click on Nairobi
click on Students Work
and you’ll find the following themes:

• A City without a Masterplan
• Architectural Legacy of the 70s
• The Industrial Area
• Waste Network
• Pentecostal Churches
• The Identity of Kibera
• Slum Upgrading
• Somalian Community in Eastleigh
• UN & NGOs in Nairobi
• Matatu Culture
• Green Nairobi: Urban Nature

which, if you download the pdf’s, they might help in structuring your arguments. below i have set up what themes, that you are exploring, might help with the themes articulated in Studio Basel

whitecity | masterplan/ architectural legacy. A useful catalyst is also South Africa’s Group Areas Act and post 1994 urban projects development

soccer booster | take a look at UN & NGO's in Nairobi as foreign entity. Focus on the before and after, what has been done, why and for whom. Explore the following:
• infrastructure
• public space
• accommodation
• destruction
• removals
take Mphethi Morojele’s presentation + the reality of what you saw on site and continue to see and make comparisons

streetlife | Greening the city in the sun/ waste network

rooms | spatial economies, no specific reference, but you may explore the subrenting of spaces, growing densities close to migrant neighbours and also look at slum upgrading in kibera/ structure/ themes/ graphics

migrant neighbours | Somali refugees as Urban Catalyst
edge conditions | industrial area and kibera as a city (informal versus formal)

ponte tower | no precedent, but scan the architectural legacy, since it concerns the history of the building – ultimately what ponte will be about

public transport | Matatu culture

the atlas is also helpful in unpacking issues relating to urbanity
to summarise:
# Colonial History of Africa – white city
# Kenya and its History – white city, migrant neighbours
# Kenya and its Demography – white city, migrant neighbours
# Kenya and its Political History – white city
# History-of-Urban-Planning of Nairobi – white city, streetlife
# Population Growth and Housing in Nairobi – rooms
# Informal Settlements in Nairobi – rooms
# The Transport System and Infrastructures – public transport
# Tourism and International Events – soccer booster
# Sport Recreation and Leisure – soccer booster