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Empower Shack Housing Development

Cape Town ZA
Urban-Think Tank
2016

Type

Collective dwelling

Tags

participatory processes, post-Apartheid, informal urban fabrics, architecture for the commons, 200Best

Visitability

Allowed

Description

The Social Housing Empower Shack project found a home in Khayelitsha through the partnerships of U-TT and the local NGO lkhayalami. The concept is to develop a new open-source housing prototype and urban plan, which could be a model for informal settlement upgrading across South Africa. Using the existing footprint of the shack and working closely and transparently with residents and city planners, structures are built using local labor and materials according to architectural principles focused on creating homes, not just houses. We have successfully built 51 homes to date and are hoping to build many more.(Description provided by the architects)

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