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ENGINEERING, THE BUILT
ENVIRONMENT AND TECHNOLOGY

69A
EcoSUN

152a

4028 275,79 m 2

EcoSUN 220,08 m 2 264,03 m 2
houses

Public Place 252,54 m 2 Green Village area
153s 238,47 m 2 Proposed EcoSUN
CC 153p 4027 153r 205,51 m 2
3963 204,69 m 2
153q B 11
B 18,01 m 2 GYM 32,72 m 2 2 4 3 1 8 9 7 6 5 10 16,76 m 2
RM13 13,66 m 2 OfÞce / Shop 8,62 m 2 Storage cafe bar 28,33 m 2 Multipurpose Area curtain Yoga curtain 88,12 m 2 Internet cafe bar Central room curtain cinema screen 28,33 m 2 Meeting Room 22,28 m 2 Toilett 271,37 m 2 Ground square 161a 161b 161c
Public Place Extention Market Place Entrance cooler drinking water Cafe' Galerie for monotoring 20m2 Grey Water Recycling 6X 17/27 6X 17/27 29,60 m 2 EcoSUN Technic skylight 15 16 14 13 10 11 12 9 8 7 6 5 Drinking Water Chill-Area 3 4 1 2 Entrance B Rainwater tank 4096 Road 4039
Sports Center B Street 161f 160b
ground 162c
Community
4093 Road Parking 153g 160c RDP standard houses
build
RDP
EcoSUN houses

existing Cadasral Plan: NORD
Playground Urban Dynamics EC
Professional Town & Regional Planner PE
area
illage
EcoSUN Sustainable Village Ekuphumleni Ndlambe Municipality urban planning concept M 1 : 1.000 EcoSUN
EcoSUN Sustainable V
Eastern Cape South Africa
Eastern Cape South Africa EcoSUN RDP Houses
Barbara Mohren Architekten Bülowstr. 56 10783 Berlin www.mmst-architekten.de barbara.mohren@mmst.architekten.de May 2019

The EcoSUN Green Village

The Chair is partnering with the University of Potsdam, “As a medium to long term agenda, we are currently
Germany and the DSI in the EcoSUN sustainable strategically mobilising resources with our German
‘Green Village’ project at Kenton on Sea’s Ekuphumleni partners to explore another EcoSUN Green Village
township, a science and technology initiative for new demonstration site in the Eastern Cape. This
types of settlements. development will be undertaken in collaboration with
two TVET colleges in the Eastern Cape – the East Cape
“The Ekuphumleni demonstration site comprises ten Midlands and Iqhayiya Campus (PE TVET College)
attractive, innovative RDP homes, which are linked to a and the Berlin-Brandenburg Vocational Institute in
grey water recycling facility hosted by a multipurpose Germany, supported by the University of Berlin. Key
community centre (MPCC),” Prof Mbanga explains. among its outcomes is to introduce appropriate green
“Solar panels power the MPCC, while the houses have artisan qualifications in South Africa.”
a hybrid of solar energy and electricity. The MPCC is
also making use of an alternative sanitation system. In The intention of this demonstration site is to influence
September 2021, with our German partners, we will the South African government policy in sustainable
be training youth in the community to be technicians human settlement nationally through engaged
for the maintenance of the community’s green research that does not end with research findings,
technologies, so that all maintenance and repairs can but rather tangible and observable eco-friendly and
be done locally both in the MPCC and the ten homes. liveable human settlements whose design can be
Skills transfer to the communities is an important replicated in other comparable environments in South
component of sustainability in technology transfer. Africa, southern Africa and the continent .

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