Location: Gaborone, Botswana
Year: Spring, 2016
Old Naledi, originally an informal settlement in Gaborone, Botswana is being threatened by the government of Gaborone to be bulldozed and developed into housing for the wealthy. Alternatively our studio proposed that development be provided for the existing community be means of thoughtful, affordable architectural intervention.My scheme involved studying the theory of the placement of markets and how they can start to generate nodes of circulation where culture can start to grow and develop from the interior of this informal settlement.By supplying the basic structure and water cores for a building and allowing the community to fill in the rest, I was able to achieve this goal of centralization.
Site Studies of Old Naledi reveal scope of project and impacts locally and regionally. 
Site Studies and collage of central circulation path of the neighborhood. 
Studio-Defined Urban Plan – Central Node Highlighted. 
Circulation Urban Flow Study of Central Corridor.
Proposed Grid of Structure for Old Naledi citizens to populate with their own architecture around the grid. 
Site Plan shows central location of proposed Grid along the main circulation path. 
Proposed Structure to be used for the settlement. 
Section Study for Episodic placement of structure according to Market Paths and Shadow placement. 
Unit Plan arrangements and Different options for cladding the structure. 
Timeline of Growth through Postcards and different unit plans.
Moshe Porter 