Community Landmarks

Community Landmarks

Delvin Mwende / M Arch Academy of Art University

Delvin Mwende / M Arch

Community Landmarks

Statement

Kariobangi is a low-income residential estate in Northeastern Nairobi. It was a designated light indusrty zone in 1989 after the Structural Adjustmen Program. Its growth has therefore been mainly based on the manufaturing industry with a string of small scale factories developing. The factories have degressed from their initial plan leading to a high rate of unemployment in the region. 11.4% of the population are employed, 22% of the youth are unemployed and there’s a 32% drop out rate.

Subsequently, the government has begun initiatives such as Fanaka Youth Enterprise and Slum Boys Youth Development to allow the youth to get into activities such as music and sports. However, the facilities are underdeveloped and lack sufficient infrasturcture to handle the evergrowing population. This community centre therefore intends to provide a sufficinet space for nurturing and developing the skills and talents of the youth of Kariobangi. Innovative and Inspiring design ideologies will be incorporated to provide a space that can be motivating, uplifting and iconic whilst remaining within the boundaries of budget, tectonics and material technology.

01/Recreation City Urbanism and recreation merge.

03 Ground floor plan

View of bridge from the south side of the Han River

Statement

Kariobangi is a low-income residential estate in Northeastern Nairobi. It was a designated light indusrty zone in 1989 after the Structural Adjustmen Program. Its growth has therefore been mainly based on the manufaturing industry with a string of small scale factories developing. The factories have degressed from their initial plan leading to a high rate of unemployment in the region. 11.4% of the population are employed, 22% of the youth are unemployed and there’s a 32% drop out rate.

Subsequently, the government has begun initiatives such as Fanaka Youth Enterprise and Slum Boys Youth Development to allow the youth to get into activities such as music and sports. However, the facilities are underdeveloped and lack sufficient infrasturcture to handle the evergrowing population. This community centre therefore intends to provide a sufficinet space for nurturing and developing the skills and talents of the youth of Kariobangi. Innovative and Inspiring design ideologies will be incorporated to provide a space that can be motivating, uplifting and iconic whilst remaining within the boundaries of budget, tectonics and material technology. Typology

02/Kariobangi Community Centre Nuturing local, talented youth.

Gate II a secondary entrance used for servicing the workshops and Textile workshop consiting of tailroing, dyeing and weaving

Concrete planter seating offering views to the displayed material

Sunshaded detailing and crocheting court

Wood workshop consisting of driiling cutting joinery and a carving court

Motor vehicle workshop consisting of wheel alignment painting and body straightening

Metal workshop consisting of folding,bending, joining and welding

Reception block consisting of administrative offices

Main access to the community centre allowing for both pedestrian and vehicular access

Open air market where artistic material created can be sold to the public

Multipurpose indoor sports hall holding 200 spectators

Multipurpose auditorium allowing for various musical performnaces and meetings with a capacity of 400 people

Education block with visual and performing arts classes

Statement

A museum of international standing is to be created for the art of the 20th century at the behest of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation SPK. For the first time in decades, the newly created museum complex Neue Nationalgalerie - Museum of the 20th Century will enable the collection of the Nationalgalerie, so far only exhibited to the public in parts, to be presented in an adequate fashion. The internationally important holdings of the Nationalgalerie of 20th century art, the Marx and Pietsch collections, the Marzona archive and works from the Museum of Prints and Drawings will be permanently and jointly exhibited for the first time.

The new building will thus form a tightly circumscribed unity with the Neue Nationalgalerie in content and function. The location of the new museum at the Kulturforum, in the direct vicinity of two of Germany‘s most important architectural icons of the 20th century (Neue Nationalgalerie, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, 1968 and Philharmonie, Hans Scharoun, 1963), as well as in the environs of further architectural monuments (St. Matthew‘s Church, Berlin State Library), calls for a particularly attentive approach.

03/M20 Museum of the 20th century Integration of the old and the new

Typology Museum

Course ARH 619

Site

Postdamer Strasse, Berlin

Year

Spring 2022

Instructor

Mark Muckenheim

01 Site plan

The museum is located next to Neue Nationalgalrie and Berliner Philharmonie; one of the most iconic buildings in Germany. It was hence a challenge and an opportunity to integrate into the existing landscape while still maintaing authenticity.

11 Structural axonometric View of the entrance to the museum

Statement

Redevelopment in Nairobi’s expanded CBD has gaind momentum over the years due to incresed business opportunities from within and outside the country. Many old buildings within the expanded CBD have been demolished and replaced with modern structures, while areas previously zoned as residential have been convetred to mixed-use purposes. However there is little such development on the eastern and south-eastern side of the CBD.

The Government, the Kenya Railways Corporation and the County Government of Nairobi have undertaken joint studies that seek to establish the way in which the central railway station and the surrounding area can be redeveloped to maximixe on its economic potential. The goal of this project therefore, to develop a detailed urban design plan of a section indicated and propose a Mixed Use Development (MUD) project on an apppropriate site in the planned area.

04/Nariobi Railway City

Reinvention of urban developments.

14 East elevation

15 West elevation

Statement

Urban planners such as Edmund Bacon and Kevin Lynch examined traditional cities not for their formal appearance, but rather for the way in which its inhabitants used and experienced the cities. In addition, Danish architect Steen Eiler Rasumen analyzes architecture from a perceptual point of view–not only what it looks like, but also how one walks through its spaces, how it is felt, what it sounds like in his text ‘Experiencing Architecture’

Subsequently, critics such as Norberg- schulz adopted these ideas and introduced concepts such as genius loci- a location’s general atmosphere, in architectural terms, the elements of a design which gives it its particular characteristics and identity- and spirit of place- general spirit or sense of a place, that which gives a place a particular sense of identity. This project therefore seeks to analyze the transition of wind and how this can be experienced differently by different users in a structure.

05/Wind Phenomenology

Experiencing the transition of wind.

Statement

The county government of Taita Taveta in association with development partners USAID have approched us lo design VoResource Centre in Voi subcounty. The centre should in all aspects be a symbol of the taita laveta people. It should be inspirational, a source of employment and business, and mainly a source of pride far the people.

On the macro-scale, the site is localed in Taita Tavela County 200km away from Mombasa and 360km away from Nairobi. It is known for its national landmarks seen through Tsavo East and West National Parks as well as the surrounding hills which acted as a source of solace and protection for the people as they fended off altack from their neighbours the Maasai. On the micro-scale the site is localed along Vai road and has an immediate context consisting of residential and light commercial structures. The site currently houses the administrative county government offices.

06/Voi Resource Centre

Embracing the essence of nature.

01 Site plan

The Resource Centre wi to be located along Vai road and has an immediate context consisting of residential and light commercial structures. The site currently houses the administrative county government offices.

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/Acknowledgements

My Family

I would like to thank my parents and my siblings who have helped me and supported me throughout this journey.

Instructors

I would like to thank my instructors Peter Suen, Mark Muckenheim, Eric Reeder and Mary Scott for all their guidance during my M Arch journey.