Re-emerge of Street lives
The streets are getting messy as there are more transportation methods. Originally sidewalks were designed for walking, but now it has been crowded with street furnitures, bikes, scooters. However, the third world, life crises are happening in everyday transportation. We can prevent people from moving into city centers by decentralizing the activities by finding spaces of opportunities.
Uganda is a country with one of the most rapid growth speed in East Africa. Its capital city Kampala was originally designed for 150 thousand people, now it habitats 4 million people living in the city area. Every day half of them live and work in the city’s core, the other half commute into the center of the city and return home at night. Sprawling urban growth without equivalent social investment in mass transportation or separated highways has made traffic a public health catastrophe. About 9,000 people perish in road traffic accidents annually in Uganda.
The research system looks into the whole Kampala City from a larger scale, finding areas that people are most likely in danger affected by the traffic, then into smaller scales discussing where we should build the structures in the community and how we can differentiate the kinds of space.
This is not a design, but a continuing process of how we can change the way people are using their residual spaces; and developing systems to find spaces of opportunity. Using developed rules that we can calculate with, while residents are building simultaneously in a way that they can learn easily with resources that are local and sustainable. We can decentralize the activities from a point A to point B, and integrate it into their community. Eventually, the dangerous and crowded movements into the city will decrease.
Uganda is a country with one of the most rapid growth speed in East Africa. Its capital city Kampala was originally designed for 150 thousand people, now it habitats 4 million people living in the city area. Every day half of them live and work in the city’s core, the other half commute into the center of the city and return home at night. Sprawling urban growth without equivalent social investment in mass transportation or separated highways has made traffic a public health catastrophe. About 9,000 people perish in road traffic accidents annually in Uganda.
The research system looks into the whole Kampala City from a larger scale, finding areas that people are most likely in danger affected by the traffic, then into smaller scales discussing where we should build the structures in the community and how we can differentiate the kinds of space.
This is not a design, but a continuing process of how we can change the way people are using their residual spaces; and developing systems to find spaces of opportunity. Using developed rules that we can calculate with, while residents are building simultaneously in a way that they can learn easily with resources that are local and sustainable. We can decentralize the activities from a point A to point B, and integrate it into their community. Eventually, the dangerous and crowded movements into the city will decrease.
Kampala City Movements and Activities/
There are various dense living places in Kampala that are far away from leisure and market areas, they would have to cross major roads or move a long distance just to satisfy the needs for living. The example site is chosen as it is highly populated in the city center, a space that is the furthest from all leisure, markets, and the most used road from getting to one another. Structure types in Spaces/
The spaces are divided into places that are suitable for planting according to water flows and dimension. The rest are divided into usable, non-usable, and Mutuba tree planting areas for building resources according to size. Usable areas are then separated into two types: road and square types, according to length and width ratios. The developed structures are placed according to different uses of space. First Level System/
To decrease the mobilization distances, having a market in their community is crucial, for more than 80 percent of their daily life associates with market life. Residents can cook in public kitchens and share meals, or have small classrooms for teaching or private meetings. Every once in a while, they may need to renew their structures, earth and bark cloth as natural materials, wear off after a certain time. Second Level System/
Hanging sack bags saves the space for movement since there is not much space to plant. If a person tends to reach the bag on the far side, they can pull the cable towards them. The advantage of planting on top not only allows more sunlight on the plants and provides shed towards people holding activities beneath, but also generating more levels to plant and keeping them from the constant flood. |
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