Some Projects of the Architectural Section of the Natal Region of the Urban Foundation

Background to the Urban Foundation and its involvement in Project Activity

Author(s) Peter Wilkinson, Derek van Heerden

Keywords: 1976, improving the quality of life, structural reform, participatory process, housing, just society, housing for Blacks, security of tenure, self-help concepts, ACCESS, public and private sector financing, communities, development agency, research, advocacy, communication, innovative, pre-school education, demonstration, negotiating role, technical expertise, management skills, design models, responsive project, monitoring performance, usage, local builders, lump sum contract, labour-only builders and subcontractors, on-site management, repayable soft loans, third world development, quantity, over quality, de-skilled

Provincial Committee

Keywords: News, Malcolm Hamlin, NPIA, Bill Vos

Geoffrey Le Sueur Scholarship

Keywords: News, Johann Slee, Cape Dutch, Palladian, Veneto

Corobrik's unique "All Products Catalogue" system

Keywords: News, national catalogue system, world first, walling, roofing, ceramic, tile, sanitary-ware, 50, factories, face bricks, colours, moods, grade, classification, technical data

University/ Institute Liaison Committee

Best Brick Prize

Architect(s): Small, Pettit & Robson, Hallen, Theron and Partners, Marinier, Small and Pettit

Author(s) Gordon Small

Keywords: Letters

The Awards System

Architect(s): Hallen Theron and Partners, Julian Elliott

Author(s) Don Dyke-Wells

Keywords: Letters, Mangosuthu Technikon, intellectual superiority, jury's brief, uncomfortably wide, Awards Group, Royal Institute of British Architects, censorious comment, criteria, citation, architectural form, visual awareness

Site and Service Scheme - KwaMashu 1980

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Architect(s): Urban Foundation

Location(s) KwaMashu

Keywords: housing, undeveloped infill areas, middle income, owner-build, free enterprise

Inanda Newtown 1981

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Architect(s): Urban Foundation

Keywords: housing, site and service, minimum infrastructure, pit latrines, stand pipes, Govt. loans, environmental upgrading, low income

Self-Help Housing

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Architect(s): Urban Foundation

Location(s) Phoenix

Keywords: housing, Indian self-help housing, utility company

Briardale - Newlands West 1981

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Architect(s): Urban Foundation, Building Design Group

Location(s) Newlands West

Keywords: commercial, Indian Housing, Townhouses, Detached, nursery school, public park, community, middle income group

Inanda Newtown Traders Market and Industrial Units

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Keywords: commercial, covered stalls, Market Square, manufacturing, marketing

Home Improvement

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Location(s) Umlazi

Keywords: commercial, technical advice, national architectural competition

KwaMashu Traders Market

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Architect(s): Urban Foundation

Keywords: commercial, station, KwaMashu Council, covered stalls, service facilities, offal traders

Bergville School

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Architect(s): Urban Foundation

Location(s) Rookdale

Keywords: education schools, ablutions (vent. pit type), lump sum contract, hail zone

Dube High School

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Architect(s): Building Design Group

Location(s) KwaMashu

Keywords: education schools, laboratory, formal lump sum contract, teachers training college, cum high school

Sankontshe School

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Architect(s): Urban Foundation

Location(s) Mpumalanga

Keywords: education schools, labour only contracts, courtyard design

Mgane Wakhe School

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Architect(s): Urban Foundation

Location(s) Umgababa

Keywords: education schools, aqua-privy, coastal hilltop site, extreme wind conditions, courtyard space, hard surface

Nqobane School

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Architect(s): Urban Foundation

Location(s) Dassenhoek

Keywords: education schools, aqua-privy, labour only contracts, steep hill, rock terraces, water, school children, building work

Nonhlevu Secondary School

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Architect(s): Urban Foundation

Keywords: education schools, upgrading existing buildings, phased development, Stanger Rotary

Newlands East Creche

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Architect(s): Urban Foundation

Keywords: education, Pre-Schools, negotiated lump sum, Mayor's Fund, hilltop site, protect playing area from wind

Umlazi Resources Centre

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Architect(s): Urban Foundation

Keywords: education, Pre-Schools, lump sum contract, sloping site, after hours

Magabheni Creche

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Architect(s): Urban Foundation

Location(s) Umkomaas, Fredville, Limehill

Keywords: education, Pre-Schools, labour only contract, prototype

Havenside Creche

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Architect(s): Urban Foundation

Location(s) Chatsworth

Keywords: education, Pre-Schools, Panhandle site, National Housing Commission Standards, large shed, covered verandah

Groutville Nursery School

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Architect(s): Urban Foundation

Keywords: education, Pre-Schools, formal lump sum contract, Stanger Rotary, maximise orientation, enclose external play space

Milkafrika Creche

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Architect(s): Urban Foundation

Location(s) Inanda Newtown

Keywords: education, Pre-Schools, Milk Afrika Music Festival

Abadingayo Childrens Home

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Architect(s): M. Dyer

Location(s) Edendale, Pietermaritzburg

Keywords: community facilities, orphaned children, dormitory, matron, negotiated contract

YMCA

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Architect(s): Building Design Group

Location(s) KwaMashu

Keywords: community facilities, matron's flat

Umlazi Old Age Home

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Architect(s): Urban Foundation

Keywords: community facilities

YWCA KwaMashu

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Architect(s): Franklin, Garland & Gibson

Keywords: community facilities, centralised courtyard

Mqhawe School Hall

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Location(s) Inanda Mission Reserve

Keywords: community facilities, open sided hall, portal frame, lump sum contract, infill block work, local labour, centenary celebrations

Adams Hosken Hall

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Architect(s): Urban Foundation, K MacGarry

Keywords: community facilities, negotiated labour only contract

Bantuvukani School Kitchen

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Architect(s): Urban Foundation

Location(s) Lamontville

Keywords: community facilities, school population, excess of 1000, daily feeding scheme

Inanda Newtown Community Hall

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Architect(s): Mikula and Johnson

Keywords: community facilities, local clinic, portal frame, labour only contracts

Community Hall

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Keywords: community facilities, pilot Indian self-help, LA requirements, indoor sports, high ceiling heights

Locality Map

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Keywords: Indian group areas, developed Indian, Black group area, developed Black, Coloured area, developed Coloured, industry

Comment: Architecture and the Challenge of Development

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Keywords: promotion, well-being of individuals and communities, quality of life, Third World, development strategies, reduction, removal, inequity, focus in development, basic needs, material improvement, rapid city growth, levels of inequality, squatter housing, African, non-government development agencies, Soweto uprisings, involvement of architects, skills, Poverty, income, contribution