Oasis Ikemeleng
An ubuntu oasis in the midst of exploitation and hazard.
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Generating a design narrative within the interpretations and understandings of ubuntu is a striking starting point. However, the various scenarios of ubuntu could be discovered with inspirational spaces for individuals and for the community. The proposed spatial organization based on repetitive units monotonously arousing on the site creates a rigid scheme that limits a potentially diverse living environment for the future residents. The urban template does not develop and intertwined relationship with the context and lacks scalable or adaptable solution for future necessities. The use of baobab within the project is very representational were as it could have been performatively employed to create an active community live and ecologic restoration that is triggered by the symbolic power of these trees.
The idea of building an entire community revolving around ubuntu carries a great potential in the overall scheme of the project narrative. Nonetheless, the graphic characterization does not display nor explore the inspiring narratives of ubuntu. The overall system and spatial organization are not part of a flowing/entangled framework that will allow a performative use of the designed spaces, nor it accommodates the necessary uncertainty that will follow the future of the project.