Ephemeral [Re]Urbanism : A Vacant Automobile Dealership Adapted to an Urban Informal Market

dc.contributor.advisorKarusseit, Catherine
dc.contributor.emaildurenmoodley@gmail.comen_ZA
dc.contributor.postgraduateMoodley, Duren
dc.date.accessioned2019-12-10T10:43:34Z
dc.date.available2019-12-10T10:43:34Z
dc.date.created2020
dc.date.issued2019
dc.descriptionMini Dissertation (MInt (Prof))--University of Pretoria, 2019.en_ZA
dc.description.abstractObservation of Pretoria’s current urban condition has revealed a network of vacant automobile dealerships left in the wake of a national decline of new vehicle sales. Among which are two vacant dealerships that occupy an entire urban block within a socio-economically active district of Arcadia. With prolonged vacancy and an indefi nite future, the onset of ‘Urban Decay’, wherein former functional city segments descend into decrepitude, is inevitable. Furthermore, dealership building typology is mono-functional, dictating diffi cult appropriation and costly retrofi t, inhibiting the potential for alternative tenant occupation and use. This factor, together with the current economic climate, results in vacant dealerships contributing signifi cantly towards a ‘negative’ urban condition. As a strategy towards restraining urban decay, an intervention is proposed in the form of the ephemeral adaptation of one dealership into an urban informal market. The informal market is in response to the fi eld research observations. The site is situated along a high frequency pedestrian corridor, which revealed a dynamic informal trade economy that is present on the dealership’s Western edge. A set of design criteria and guidelines inform the markets’ design. The criteria and guidelines are primarily informed by fi eld research and the conclusions drawn applying guidance towards the secondary informants. The secondary informants are derived from theories of urban decay and renewal, semi-permanent adaptive reuse and developing urban informal trade, along with international precedents and a local case study. The intention of the urban informal market is to sensitively support urban informal trade by providing the minimum infrastructure for trade to occur, allow and promote growth, fl exibility, and appropriation. To convey the ephemeral nature of the intervention and, in turn, render a once mono-spatial pragmatic structure sculptural, scaffolding is employed as a design medium to ‘sculpt’ space. The aim of the impermanent intervention is the reintegration of the vacant dealership into Arcadia’s fabric, contributing towards a positive urban condition.en_ZA
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dc.description.degreeMInt (Prof)en_ZA
dc.description.departmentArchitectureen_ZA
dc.identifier.citationMoodley, D 2019, Ephemeral [Re]Urbanism : A Vacant Automobile Dealership Adapted to an Urban Informal Market, MInt (Prof) Mini Dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/72588>en_ZA
dc.identifier.otherA2020en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/72588
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherUniversity of Pretoria
dc.rights© 2019 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria.
dc.subjectUCTDen_ZA
dc.subjectUrban Decay & Renewalen_ZA
dc.subjectEphemeralityen_ZA
dc.subjectAdaptive Reuseen_ZA
dc.subjectPublic Interioren_ZA
dc.subjectArcadiaen_ZA
dc.titleEphemeral [Re]Urbanism : A Vacant Automobile Dealership Adapted to an Urban Informal Marketen_ZA
dc.typeMini Dissertationen_ZA

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