TWO
RIVERS
URBAN
PARK
TWO RIVERS URBAN PARK
The Two Rivers Urban Park (TRU-Park) and its associated landholdings offer a unique opportunity for the City of Cape Town. This strategically located site has many attributes and unique qualities that can help to “heal the city” and give hope to its people. TRU-Park is located at a strategic confluence of important ecological elements and urban corridors. The surrounding communities are culturally diverse and live in different socio-economic conditions.
TRU-Park is an ecological asset of great and unique value, enriched by multiple heritage and cultural narratives, both tangible and intangible. Through privileging these informants, the concept plan endeavours to address the negative impacts from both the broader catchment in respect of environmental health, as well as the negative divisive infrastructural impacts. Its ecological integrity is currently heavily compromised by large infrastructural barriers and uncontrolled pollution from its urban surroundings.
TRU-Park offers the opportunity to provide the surrounding communities with access to resources, to improve the freedom of movement across and around the site through affordable and sustainable modes of transport as well as the opportunity to celebrate different cultural narratives. These opportunities could begin to re-dress the socio-spatial legacy of apartheid.
TRU-Park could become a showcase of sustainable development by bridging the social divide, re-establishing the ecological integrity. As a distinctive re-generation area, it affords the prospect to create a precinct that is diverse and yet socially inclusive.
The Two Rivers Urban Park (TRU-Park) and its associated landholdings offer a unique opportunity for the City of Cape Town. This strategically located site has many attributes and unique qualities that can help to “heal the city” and give hope to its people. TRU-Park is located at a strategic confluence of important ecological elements and urban corridors. The surrounding communities are culturally diverse and live in different socio-economic conditions.
TRU-Park is an ecological asset of great and unique value, enriched by multiple heritage and cultural narratives, both tangible and intangible. Through privileging these informants, the concept plan endeavours to address the negative impacts from both the broader catchment in respect of environmental health, as well as the negative divisive infrastructural impacts. Its ecological integrity is currently heavily compromised by large infrastructural barriers and uncontrolled pollution from its urban surroundings.
TRU-Park offers the opportunity to provide the surrounding communities with access to resources, to improve the freedom of movement across and around the site through affordable and sustainable modes of transport as well as the opportunity to celebrate different cultural narratives. These opportunities could begin to re-dress the socio-spatial legacy of apartheid.
TRU-Park could become a showcase of sustainable development by bridging the social divide, re-establishing the ecological integrity. As a distinctive re-generation area, it affords the prospect to create a precinct that is diverse and yet socially inclusive.
YEAR
2015-2017
LOCATION
Observatory, Cape Town
TEAM
TKLA
CLIENT
Western Cape Government in partnership with the City of Cape Town
2015-2017
LOCATION
Observatory, Cape Town
TEAM
TKLA
CLIENT
Western Cape Government in partnership with the City of Cape Town
