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M.Arch(Prof)

Design Dissertation: Part I - The Network

University of Cape Town 2018

Project Framework

BAS(Hons)

M.Arch(Prof)

Rejuvenating the Cityscape?

Digital X

the kinship between architecture + technology

Technology

Architecture

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Initial Conceptual Collages

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the infrastructural object

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where the natural + artificial meet

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markers of the underground

Day Zero

A closer look - Cape Town Water Crisis 2018

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Cape Town Region Water Cycle

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Historic Maps showing the Development of the Cape Town City Bowl

Courtesy of the Western Cape Archives

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Map of Historic Water Ways + Farms Located within the Cape Town City Bowl

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Cape Town Underground Tunnel Infrastructure

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Average of 18-20 Million Litres of Water Daily

An Alternative Water Source?

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The Urban Network

Layers of Movement: Water + People

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Design Development

Development Sketches + Proposals

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Site

A look at what an example of Arcadia could be

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Relationship with Sea, Sky, Mountain + Earth

Flows between 'sCapes

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The Proposal

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The Living

The Earth

The Grid

The Market

The Reservoir

© 2023 by Daniel Xu

Cape Town, South Africa.

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