Typology
Public transport TOD / urban design / heritage
Client
City of Cape Town, Transport Directorate
Location
Maitand, Cape Town
Year
2020
Team
Urban design: Urban Concepts Project managers & Engineers: BVi Consulting Engineers Architect: Derek Kock Economic & Social development specialist: Urban Econ Landscape architect: Planning Partners Transport Planner: Trafficon Traffic engineer: Techso Environmental Assessment Practitioner: Enviroworks Heritage: Tim Hart Town planner: MLH Quantity Surveying: Van Wyk Consulting QS
Image credits
Drawings, site photos and graphics by Urban Concepts
Maitland BRT Station Precinct
Maitland, Cape Town
Urban Concepts was appointed as the project urban designers as part of the consulting team for the Engineering, Planning, Design and Management of the Maitland BRT Station.
The site is located within the Maitland Public Transport Interchange, encompassing the railway station and taxi rank and is abutted by the Voortrekker Road Corridor, Maitland Town Hall and Maitland Garden park. Although the immediate focus of the project is the BRT station, the urban design component considers a longer-term precinct area, spanning between Voortrekker Road and Berkeley Road and follows the existing railway division of a north and south precinct.
The project envisions the public transport intervention as a tool for the holistic development of the two precincts across its multiple barriers through the integration of its visual, pedestrian and architectural linkages and for positive responsiveness to the surrounding heritage resources to form a common identity as a single transport-oriented environment.
The celebration of the visual connections of the Town hall and Church towers allow for the two precincts to be experienced from opposite sides of the railway and along with proposed future optimisation of underutilised railway space and place-making initiatives along the key movement routes, it can potentially further mitigate the negative effects of this physical separation.