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Final major project: Site plan analysis

 Kitwe, city, northern Zambia, south-central Africa. It is the second largest city in Zambia and is the main industrial and commercial centre of the copper-belt region. Founded in 1936, Kitwe grew with the rapid development of copper mining, though secondary industries have also been established. ( Encyclopædia Britannica, no date)

As my project is happening in Zambia, the perfect spot to create a sustainable playground will be the freedom park for its location as it is accessible to everyone. 

Freedom park



Freedom Park has a length of 2.43 kilometres

Latitude: -12°48'25.2"

Longitude: 28°12'51.48"

 

The park is find in city centre which is easy for everyone to access wherever they are coming from.


GEOLOGY


The Zambian Copperbelt is unusual among sediment-hosted stratiform copper districts in having abundant Co and low Ag, Zn, and Pb. The Cu-Co sulfide carrollite is widespread in the district, although cobalt is present in economic quantities in only some deposits on the western side of the district. ( Selley, D. et al. 2007). On the western limb of the Nkana Syncline, the Kitwe Formation is composed of argillites, quartzites and dolostones.


SOIL TYPOLOGY 


Zambia has a wide range of soil typology such as Red clays, Barotes sands, Sanveldts soils, black clays, rock and rubble and many more. However the soils in the Copperbelt are highly weathered and strongly leached ferralsols. 




Contour maps of selected parameters on Zambian Copperbelt Mining districts



VEGETATION


Despite being a mineral land, Kitwe also know as the Copperbelt has a wide variety of plants as part of its vegetation. Such as Mexican sunflower, Common lantana, false Christmas, Cactus lychee, cardboard cycad and guava. 

SUNFLOWER

LYCHEE

CARDBOARD CYCAD

COMMON LANTANA

FALSE CHRISTMAS CACTUS 


 


HYDROGRAPHY 


Zambia is drained by two major river basins: the Zambezi/Kafue basin in the centre, west and south covering about three-quarters of the country; and the Congo basin in the north covering about one-quarter of the country. A very small area in the northeast forms part of the internal drainage basin of Lake Rukwa in Tanzania (Geography, no date)


Rivers in Zambia


Here are some pictures of where Zambia, Kitwe and freedom park are located on the map 


3D view of Freedom park 

2D view of freedom park




Location of Zambia on the globe



Reference


- Selley, D. et al. (2007) A new look at the geology of the Zambian copperbelt, figshare. Available at: https://figshare.utas.edu.au/articles/journal_contribution/A_New_Look_at_the_Geology_of_the_Zambian_Copperbelt/23204543#:~:text=The%20Zambian%20Copperbelt%20is%20unusual,western%20side%20of%20the%20district. (Accessed: 30 October 2023).


- Kitwe (no date) Encyclopædia Britannica. Available at: https://www.britannica.com/place/Kitwe (Accessed: 10 November 2023).


- Geography (no date) Zambian High Commission. Available at: https://www.zambiapretoria.net/geography/#:~:text=Zambia%20is%20drained%20by%20two,one%2Dquarter%20of%20the%20country. (Accessed: 12 November 2023).

Comments

  1. DigitalArts_Architecture_Blog13 November 2023 at 22:14

    Unfinished work that needs completing.
    You have not created the finished design board. The objective was to complete this research, and then create a final design board.
    You need to add your own comments here too. not just pictures.

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