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BT Soweto Affordable housing
Project type
Affordable housing
Date
Sept 2023
Location
Khayelitsha, Cape Town, Cape Town
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Role
Project Architect, assisting in stage 7-9. Leading urban design & community feedback for safe public parks.
Description
*High Commendation for Scape Awards, Community Project*
We started implementing our incremental Empower Upgrade Model 10 years ago with an existing community living at BT Soweto, in Site C, Khayelitsha.
In any existing community there are many significant relationships built, ties formed and networks established over many years – and in this case decades. UTTE believes in facilitating and celebrating these existing connections rather than imposing any fully foreign frameworks. As a result we worked closely with community representatives to respond directly to existing community conditions in developing the pilot development design. This first community has now been completed and provides 72 homes, a public open space and shared community centre with life changing socio-economic benefits for over 400 beneficiaries.
