Thursday, May 17, 2012

grass / savanah city scape - wildetect style

A grass city sculpted built environment landscape as invisaged here - Creates seemingly disorder into order - Nature as a  catalyst or spark for human design interpretation is a very powerful point of design departure - Nothing really new under the sun - But always aesthetically extremely powerful when envisaged.

If we as humans studied and copied nature more in our Africa built environments - We wouldnt have to create built environment documents that legislate the exact amount of sun light - landing in a formal karoo town bed room on the west side of the shed at 11pm on the 11th of November. Its complete and utter lunacy, that all the landlords men have managed to whittle away their valuable time, over regulating the South African built formal environment landscape so minutely. Whilst South Africa's second informal settlement built environment  - regrettably literally burns out of control every 5 minutes.

We will never attain imaginative built environment landscapes such as this grass city landscape within the South African formal built environment architectural landscape with this new legislation. It will cost far to much.- Absolutely great say the money tax analyticals, stupendous say all the unimaginatives - Downright tragic say the very few wild aesthetic creatives trying to imagine a future where nature and human design endeavour co exists - Cleverly and finally might eventually touch utopia.


That future designed huge glass north facing view window, in the South African architectural design context  - is now a complete relic from the past - It will throw your calculations out completely and costca bomb in the new document created by the SA regulatory council and hugely funded from what ive heard, a first world country. (Where it gets so cold you leave a window open, you die from cold) (in SA you will simply encourage home invasions with an open window.) A first world country nogal, that due to extreme weather issues, will never have an informal settlement within its borders ever - In otherwords through no fault of there own, one that does not domestically understand the extreme plight of Africas vast informal settlement landscapes.

This new regulated legislation will cause building prices to absolutely sore. The new build home owner is now crippled under new legislative costs.  - As from my vantage point a few approved gate keepers minutely check and stamp each brick, roof sheet and window frame being installed in the formal building sector. Making sure every item of building material has been approved - Cha-ching you might hear and say. My only question is - who is going to check minutely every ibr sheet, window frame and plastic waterproofing in the informal settlement arena? Does the legislation even touch on creating a livable solution within this informal built environment arena? The answer is an emphatic unequivocal, NO! 

This informal built environment is a system that burns regularly and people lose their lives due to extremely bad town planning, complete lack of any oversite building regulations.

So it looks like a tax controlled money making scheme to me, rather than a concerned vehicle to save humanity. Humanity is actually suffering badly under its blind eye and weight. Just you go live under the oppressive extreme built environment conditions in an informal settlement. Thats not even mentioning the extreme rent extortion landlords within the informal unregulated systems that fleece the people. Its no wonder the grab for land keeps growing, It might be surprising to find out who controls most of the informal settlement land is only a few very clever land overlords. Charging unregulated extortion fees, not a cent going towards any infrastructure. No, that must be paid for by the formal sector or burn ring tire road burn. 

So the formal sector gets regulatedly taxed from the top and the informal settlements get unregulatedly taxed from the bottom. (yip not a word, but so shouldn't this be happening)

Looks to me like all the people are suffering hugely. Yip blind eye, weight.

The landlords are all now completely naked - the landlords men are all completely naked - the little boy is pointing this out and the crooked taylors are all smiling from ear to ear. "Cha-ching."