District Six Pilot Project Housing

Description

These are the first 24 residential units built after the devastation of District Six urban fabric during the Apartheid regime, being these houses the materialization of a new beginning after a conflict that lasted for more than four decades.District Sex represented an ethnic diversity of enormous richness for the urban fabric of Cape Town, which also carried a productive an artisan traidition linked to the forms of life that traditionally settled there. In the mid-1950s, the area was declared a white residence, which meant the displacement of colour communities that had lived there over generations, and the destruction of much of the urban and residential fabric of this area. District Six is already distinctive not only as a location in Cape Town, but as a multiple reality including the effervescence that was representative of this area before the expulsion, as well as the social conflict that derives from it, and the resistance movement that sought and still seeks to give back to the district what was taken away. Lucien le Grange’s pilot project looks for modern and sensitive ways to re-inhabit the place, inspired by its past.