Students in the Department of Architectural Technology and Interior Design recently visited three Cape Town neighbourhoods to learn about the different housing typologies in these communities and how they were impacted by apartheid.
Junior lecturer Abigail Roberts said the Extended Curriculum Programme students visited three neighbourhoods – Langa, Pinelands and Ndabeni and the objectives were for students to learn about the history of these neighbourhoods and the factors that influenced the housing typologies and architecture styles.
“They then had to draw up a strip elevation which showed the relationship of boundary lines, pavement sizes and front yard sizes etc.”
Earlier this year the students also visited the District Six Museum Homecoming Centre and the Bo-Kaap Museum.
Roberts said the aim was for students to learn about the history of these areas and the people that lived in them to allow students to better understand how to support them from an Interior design and Architectural Technology perspective. These areas then became the sites for the students’ mobile home assignment.
“The mobile home assignment was for Interior Design and Architectural Technology students to design a mobile home for their chosen community, which was either Bo-Kaap or District Six. The point of visiting these areas was for students to learn about the history of these communities and how this heavily impacted the architecture and interior design. Students then had to design a mobile home which celebrated these areas in their respective manners. They are currently concluding the design and technical drawings and will end the year with a model representing their mobile home.”
Written by Ilse Fredericks
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