Intermodal Transport Node 2002

Brown field development, recycling existing structures on an old bus depot site into a public transport hub, traditional healer's and fresh produce markets. Appointed by the City to design and implement the project. This public transport hub accommodates local and long-distance taxi ranks and an existing train station which historically served as the gateway to Johannesburg for miners working on the Witwatersrand gold reef.

The project also formalizes the existing trade in traditional medicine, in a market space which incorporates improved facilities and public art works. Existing buildings have been converted into consulting rooms for traditional healers, straddling the divide between traditional spatial practices and those of the contemporary urban context. The project is unique in its successful understanding of the boundary between the urban and the rural in the city, and in its consideration of the transient commuter culture and history of the Faraday station precinct.

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