The room would be informal — exposed brick, perhaps an old stove against a wall, slightly eccentric light fixtures.
In Durban's impoverished Bottle Brush informal settlement, brick homes sit alongside shacks fashioned from metal sheets, wood planks and chipboard behind fences topped by razor wire.
He also worked for the Rhinelander estate, designing a handful of informal red-brick row houses, among them 337-339 East 87th Street (1887).
And yet, for all those governments' grand plans, two third of Cairenes live in informal housing, raw red brick blocks put up higgledy, cheek-by-jowl, connected illegally (and sometimes not at all) to water and electricity.
Although few authors or practitioners explicitly link disaster risk reduction and the provision of subsidized housing, the implicit assumption is that providing poor households in informal settlements with formal brick and mortar dwellings solves a range of developmental problems, including flood risk.
While about two-thirds of the housing stock in Orange Farm is informal, a large number of brick houses have been built in the more established areas.
From the kitchen, across a brick landing, is a sprawling, informal living area with a dining area surrounded by windows.
In this community residential erfs are plots of land approximately 180 m which may contain from 1 to 22 houses (mostly informal housing but also a mix of brick houses and shack dwellings), with a mean of 10 residents per plot.
A mostly young, well-turned-out Yorkville crowd frequents this informal, inviting dining room with its exposed-brick and aged-wood walls, friendly bar, overhead blade fans, soft frosted lights and etched glass.
"When we started working with Tencent, WeChat was a small part of their business," says Ward. "Now it is 50% of it". The company currently inhabits a series of redeveloped brick warehouses in Guangzhou, where an informal campus has developed.
