reclaim camissa (pecha kucha presentation)
DESCRIPTION
CAMISSA, (the ancient Khoi name for Cape Town - meaning the place of sweet waters) is a spatial framework proposa. CAMISSA is a development framework which through the use of water, focuses on the reinstatement of the ecological link that reunites the mountain and the ocean, into a public landscape, as a sustainable solution for Cape Town's CBD. It is a means by which to re-structure the City of Cape Town in accordance with environmental principles. Aimed at a sustainable approach to water use, planning, design and management that is based on the intrinsic value of water as a significant public resource that is not separate from the value of land and landscape. The vision is one of a genuinely progressive dual water management strategy that offers opportunities for new models to transform the future well-being of the city into an equal society for all people; and allows for public integration and education through the recreational use of the system. Subsequently, RECLAIM CAMISSA a non-profit trust / Public Benefit Organisation was constituted and registered in order to support implementation of the 10 year programme.TRANSCRIPT
WATER IS LIFE
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PROBLEMS or OPPORTUNITIES
REALITY and POSSIBILITY
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CALAMITY OF CLIMATE CHANGEglobal applicationsregional aspects local solutions from doom to HOPE
IMAGE SOURCES: Andrew Smith, in “The Making of a City”, by Worden, et al. : ANNUAL KHOI TRANSHUMANCE PATTERNS IN AND AROUND THE CAPE PENINSULA. Cape Archives M166; Greenmarket Square. BURGHERSWACHTPLEIN (1764) WATER CARRIERS. CARON VON ZEIL, January 2009 - Indlovini Squatter Camp, Monwabisi - Cape Town, 2009.
WATER CARRIERS
OUR LEGACY AND OUR DESTINY?
Photograph taken in Monwabisi, CAPE TOWN, 2009.
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“Sub-Saharan Africa has the lowest level of access to safe water coverage of any region, with only 60% of the population served.” -- UNESCO Water Portal Bi-monthly Newsletter No. 205, 10 July 08
GLOBAL, NATIONAL & REGIONAL
“ALL WATER VESTED IN THE STATE”
CITY WITHIN A REGION
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CAPE TOWN: the MOTHER city
The frontier of our modern nation
The very ‘meaning’ of the city of Cape Town: CAMISSA – the place of sweet waters
WE NEED ECOLOGYNot economy…..
WE NEED HONEYNot money…..
REGIONAL / METRO
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…..some knownsestimated 6.5m sea level rise, within the next 50 years….
AND BEYOND THAT: TRUE BAY.
MAP, by Chris Berens: CLIP CLOP
www.clipclop.co.za
CAPE TOWN – a sprawl city SOURCE: CARON VON ZEIL, 2004.
SIGNAL HILL
TABLE MOUNTAINDEVIL’S PEAK
LION’S HEAD
OLD SHORE LINE
THE ORIGINAL SHORELINE - CAPE TOWN SOURCE: CARON VON ZEIL: LAND-UNIT, 2004. SPRINGS
…..some knowns
• 2013 - the City of Cape Town is no longer water secure
• an estimated 6.5m sea level rise, within the next 50 years.
CLIMATE CHANGE & WATER……………some many unknowns.METRO / LOCAL
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LOCAL / SUB-METRO
Stadsfontein SpringFlow rate in excess of 2.5 million litres/ day.
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THE ARK IS READY TO FLOAT
OUR HERITAGE and OUR FUTURE
FIFA WORLD CUP 2010let’s give them a GOAL
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reality and possibilityWATER IS A LIVING CYCLE
QUANTUM LEVEL APPLICATIONCape Town uniquely possesses
a natural dual water system with 20 artesian springs and a 6.7km ‘urban river’
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reality and possibility economics & (community) urban eco-tourism
“For every foreign tourist to South Africa, eight permanent jobs are created. In terms of sustainable development, tourism is therefore critical to the economy of the country....The Council for Geoscience has identified geo-tourism as one of its focus areas for sustainable development.” - (GEOCLIPS 2002:4)
Table Mountain (potential World Heritage Site) – “an authentic illustration of the evolution of the earth and the origin of life from 3500million years ago to the present”. --Council for Geoscience: GEOCLIPS: South Africa - our geological wonderland, June 2002:4
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THE ROLE OF WATER IN STRUCTURING THE CULTURAL LANDSCAPE
Source:Nitschhke, 1993
COLONISATIONSLAVERY
BOER WARAPARTHEID
POVERTYCLIMATE CHANGE
the (spiritual) healing of a nation“closing the frontier”
LANDSCAPE COSMOLOGY
JUSTICE ECOLOGICAL ENVIRONMENTAL SPATIAL SOCIAL CULTURAL SPIRITUAL ECONOMICAL PUBLIC SPACE
(Source: Eko: 35)
HEAD
godmountains
(wo)manland
evil sea
BODYLEG
SOLUTIONCIVIC HYDROLOGYCIVIC HYDROLOGY
BEFORE SEOUL CITY, KOREA – 4 YEAR PROJECT AFTER
LIVING RIVER = LIVING CITY
ROME2 800 YEAR OLD HISTORY OF A (DUAL WATER SYSTEM) CIVIC HYDROLOGY
The concept is to transform the stormwater infrastructure so as to create a powerful civic infrastructure that engages citizens in ways that conventional infrastructure is unable to do. By creating a public landscape that is physically accessible, expressive of civic ideals and a place where the public can gather: a progressive stormwater system that is an effective mechanism for building the city’s civic life and also a compelling strategy where water is renewed and falls abundantly throughout the city', before finally being used to water the city’s green spaces.
CAMISSA - ONE OF MANY SYSTEMS
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CAMISSA
TRAFALGAR
LIESBEEK
BLACK
CAPE FLATS AQUIFER UNITOUDE KRAALNEWLANDS
WEB OF SOCIO-ECOLOGICAL LINKS
ATLANTIC OCEAN
Water follows the path of least resistance - it has no boundaries: When one uncovers the history of a 'place', it is through means of title deeds - ownership and power. But, when one uncovers the history of a place, through its water - upon which everything is dependant - one uncovers the popular history of that place……
TABLE MOUNTAIN
PLACES OF CIVIC HYDROLOGY
WATER, LAND and HUMANKIND - in unison
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DUAL WATER SYSTEMform and function
GRAVITY FED
ATLANTIC OCEAN
TABLE MOUNTAIN
OLD SHORELINE
spring water & mountain run-offDOCKSIDE MARKET
possibilities to navigate
NEW WATERSEDGEpossibilities to navigate - water taxi
irrigation & displayTHE OLD CITY WATERWAYS
navigation of subterranean water taxi routessubterranean gracht adventure trail
irrigation & displayCULTURAL HEART
irrigation & displayopportunities re-instate mill
opportunities re-instate storage reservoirs
A WATER SUSTAINABILITY PARKenvironmental ; public & commercial opportunities:
retention & detention, filtration & displaypower generation through water mills
re-instatement of Graaff's Hydro-Electricalre-instate reservoirs
CIVIC-HYDROLOGY PRECINCTScatchment; detention, filtration & display
water museum – field of springsOranjezicht Farmstead
lost heritage spaces & linksGATEWAY TO THE MOUNTAIN
catchment; detention; filtration & displayre-instatement of dam; weir; filtration, mill,
wasplaas, washer-women’s cultural /water museum
SALT WATER
100M ASL
RECYCLED WATER
POTABLE WATER
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FRAMEWORK STRUCTURE SYSTEMATIC LAYERS
DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK
GREEN system GREEN & URBAN PUBLIC SPACES
RED system URBAN MOBILITY
BLUE system CIVIC HYDROLOGY
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NAVIGABLE WATERWAYS
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existing building
INTEGRATED INFRASTRUCTURE
WHAT COULD BE….
WHAT IS…
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CIVIC HYDROLOGY PRECINCTS
WATER SUSTAINABILITY PARK
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LIVING WATER = LIVING CITY
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