GREENREEF is set to raise living standards by creating LIVE – LEARN – WORK – PLAY for its community by creating comfortable, holistic living environments with a strong emphasis being placed on meeting the educational, social and environmental needs.

Designed by GAPP architects & urban designers – the team behind some of South Africa’s foremost urban design projects including the V&A Waterfront and Umhlanga Ridge.

• 65% of Developed Bulk is being earmarked for Residential usage;
• A wide range of housing unit types is offered in order to attract diverse families. GREENREEF is expected to yield over 40 000 residential apartments;
• GREENREEF is being designed to be opportunity-rich where people live, work, learn, move and thrive;
• GREENREEF aims to provide people from all walks of life access to transportation, quality housing, education, employment opportunities, open space, recreation, retail, places of worship and health care;
• GREENREEF aims to create a walkable, sustainable community for people of all ages and incomes by providing multiple transportation and housing choices.

• Landscaped boulevards and streets, which are kept clean.
• A pedestrian friendly environment with carefully stated security presence.
• Buildings of a human scale of 4 to 6 storeys punctuating with 8, 10 and 15 storey buildings.
• A good road network with adequate, convenient parking within a safe environment.
• A broad range of shopping, entertainment and living experiences that extend the life of the town centre throughout the day and night.
• The lower levels of all buildings must engage with the sidewalk.

GREENREEF’S Architecture will be defined through scale, mass, form, colours and materials. This will apply to boulevards, avenues, streets, lanes, pedestrian and cycle ways, urban squares, parks, gardens and traffic roundabouts.

• Compact in extent (with emphasis on walking distances);
• Complex in activity pattern (mixed-use, intense, dense);
• Structured on social integration (spatially inclusive and democratic);
• Growth of local economies (integration of dual logic economies);
• Public transport based (Mass transport and feeder systems)
• Reducing the need to commute (NMT as a default movement system);
• Incorporation of ecology and bio-diversity;
• Energy efficiency (through spatial pattern/ waste-to-energy production);
• Smart cities and smart infrastructure; and
• Appropriate service infrastructure.

• Whilst it is in the nature of the development of towns and cities for growth to occur as a series of overlays over many years, it is imperative that an initial core be established which can be expanded over time as and when more complex activity patterns develop.

GREENREEF is converting an old gold-reef mining area into a greenbelt. It is an inspiring example of how mining land, made fallow by mine-workings that have subsequently been reworked and removed, can be rehabilitated and integrated back into the city system, thus knitting together the segregated towns and neighbourhoods that remain a legacy both of mining and apartheid planning.

This metrofit concept will retain the best from the past, develop for the needs of today and ensure that GREENREEF is sustainable for tomorrow.

GREENREEF is being designed to embrace sustainable 21st century urban living that is ecologically sensitive to its environment. This will be achieved through an interconnected network of open spaces and natural areas, parks, reserves, wetlands where native plant vegetation naturally manages storm water, reduces flooding risk and improves water quality.

GREENREEF’s buildings will also reflect an eco-city ethos, meeting strong environmental standards and providing high levels of comfort for building users while minimising use of energy and water.

Buildings are designed with the landscape, streetscape and neighbours in mind and also taking into account emergent innovations and technologies.

A range of building typologies have been tested, which have shaped the design for Greenreef’s development framework. The building typologies are based on a 120m² x 120m² site, resulting in an area of 14 400m². Building footprints can be located on the perimeter of these blocks allowing for the parking court / central garden in the core of this block. Right of way servitudes have been allowed for to secure access on all four sides of the block. Vehicular access, however, can be funnelled through one or more of these servitudes.

A typical vertically integrated mixed-use building typology would comprise retail at ground floor, a floor of office space and four floors residential or institutional.

The GREENREEF MALL will form part of a 21^st Century Retail Precinct that will embrace all modern trends that are radically transforming the retail landscape, namely;

• Diversity
• Demographics
• Mobile Technology
• Trading Environments
• Environment and Ethics
• Social Values

GREENREEF is a Mixed-Use, Mixed-Income Development designed to cater for all communities. These include affluent and middle-income and the ‘Base of the Pyramid’ (marginalised) consumers, which in South Africa amounts to 16 million people.

GREENREEF aims to develop, empower and train small and emerging entrepreneurs who will trade in a well-designed retail environments.

Market research shows there here is a continual demand for large retail development in the area.

GREENREEF Shopping Centre

Value Retail Node

Showroom Destination

Commercial Towers

Restaurants & Cafés

Oliver Tambo Square + Chris Hani Piazza

Markets

Hotels, Hospitality & Conferencing

Mega Parking Lots