Design is the keyto creating a safer home that would not be regularly flooded during the rainy winter months.
‘Simple, meaningful things we can do to help and assist our brothers and sisters in Cape Town and challenge the “tale of two cities” that we have’ is how Stephen Lamb describes this intervention.
The report of the house that Vida built for Noma is a heart warming one in these cold and rainy days.
Noma Funda’s home was always under water in rainy weather. And her old home was a ‘tinderbox’ in the words of Stephen Lamb. Stephen was consulted by Noma’s employeee, Vida Schiff, who got involved in helping create a new home that would be higher, drier and safer.
The new house is based on the design for the Gege Creche, recently re-built on Mandela Day. It also includes a wall garden to supply produce and act as insulation in both summer and winter. Have a look at this video taken of the children singing inside the new creche while Stephen and team work on building the food garden outside.
It is interesting to note that at the WDC2014 pitch session at Open Design last Friday, several of the ideas looked at better ways to tackle housing.
