UPgrading Khayelitsha

Khayelitsha is one of the biggest township of South Africa. It counts over 600.000 inhabitants, most of them fighting for a decent place to live. Field visits, meetings with the communities, photographs and drawings, have been fundamental for understanding and showing a difficult and specific reality like a South African’s Township. The research wants to show a different approach of slum upgrading, contrasting the tabula rasa’s process, and makes the Township’s citizens leading actors of the informal settlements’s upgrading.

The image above shows the grown of the Townships in Cape Town from the beginning of the XX century until today,

related with the informal settlements of the city.

from:

Upgrading Khayelitsha. Analysis and development strategies in a Cape Town’s Township

supervisors: Prof. Matteo Robiglio, Prof. Michele Bonino

Master’s thesis in Architecture

Politecnico di Torino

Abstract

Graduation thesis selected for the EAM Best Diploma Projects 2016