3 THE OLD CITY WATERWAYS
New Heerengracht jetty or main dock connected to the transportation hub would improve navigable connections from other GCTMA e.g Table view; Blaauwberg; Khayelitsha; Monwabisi; Strandfontein; Muizemberg, etc.
Former Adderley; Wale and Queen Victoria Street grachts all provide opportunties to be opened; or to be used seasonally, as storage reservoirs for fresh water. The grachts in general, could be further utilized to mitigate sea surges; and serve as reservoirs of salt water for fire fighting purposes, within the inner city. Tidal changes will regulate life in the city, washing through the system, daily - as can be seen in the functioning example of the Brazilian coastal town of Parati.
The old Varsche Rivier to be utilized for adventure trails and sensitively daylighted where road reserves; public land and other appropriate intersections exist.
Adderley Street's subterranean navigable twin gracht could function as a water taxi route to the Company Gardens. Such an example is the subterranean (sewer) water taxi channel in Paris, a route to the new Opera - which includes periscopic viewing points from its market pace at street level.
The provision of public drinking fountains with a spring water connectiion, together with a Camissa loci and information through a common urban furniture language and appropriate signage, could connect the public squares with these underground systems.
Other way finder markings of the old water system are plentiful within this precinct, to link the public spaces of the system: Waagenaar’s Dam; the old shoreline and jetty; the castle moat; reservoirs; fountains and furrows. And has links to Stalplein; The Parade; Green Market Square; Riebeeck Square, Church Square and St.George's Pedestrian Precinct, all significant to the watering system of old Cape Town (site of the last Hippo shot in the city; and where the slaves were dowsed, before being sold under the slave tree). Spin/Plein Street has a natural spring
Former Adderley; Wale and Queen Victoria Street grachts all provide opportunties to be opened; or to be used seasonally, as storage reservoirs for fresh water. The grachts in general, could be further utilized to mitigate sea surges; and serve as reservoirs of salt water for fire fighting purposes, within the inner city. Tidal changes will regulate life in the city, washing through the system, daily - as can be seen in the functioning example of the Brazilian coastal town of Parati.
The old Varsche Rivier to be utilized for adventure trails and sensitively daylighted where road reserves; public land and other appropriate intersections exist.
Adderley Street's subterranean navigable twin gracht could function as a water taxi route to the Company Gardens. Such an example is the subterranean (sewer) water taxi channel in Paris, a route to the new Opera - which includes periscopic viewing points from its market pace at street level.
The provision of public drinking fountains with a spring water connectiion, together with a Camissa loci and information through a common urban furniture language and appropriate signage, could connect the public squares with these underground systems.
Other way finder markings of the old water system are plentiful within this precinct, to link the public spaces of the system: Waagenaar’s Dam; the old shoreline and jetty; the castle moat; reservoirs; fountains and furrows. And has links to Stalplein; The Parade; Green Market Square; Riebeeck Square, Church Square and St.George's Pedestrian Precinct, all significant to the watering system of old Cape Town (site of the last Hippo shot in the city; and where the slaves were dowsed, before being sold under the slave tree). Spin/Plein Street has a natural spring
PRECINCT 3 - OLD CITY WATERWAYS
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.
 AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH OF PRECINCT 3 |
