10x10 Housing Project

The 10x10 Housing project it an alternative housing project. It was set up by the Design Indaba team, who got together a group of designers and architect firms to solve housing problems within Freedom Park a town ship within greater the Cape Town area. This one was initiated by Luyanda Mpahlwa of MMA Architects, it uses traditional techniques of mud and wattle building techniques. The houses have wooden frames and are then filled in with sand bags, tis is in that it included the home owners within the building process. It was then covered over in cement. I particularily like this project for two reasons, one is its use of traditiona techniques to inform the building ps and the other is the research approach that each team had. They were given video tapes with interviews of family who's house they were building, in order to understand what was needed to be designed. I feel this is a good example of design within a context and place based learning and working, this is the reason I am returning home in order to design within the context I hope to work.