• Coromandel Boutique Hotel - developing an authentic language for design 

  Jooste, Ben Stefan (University of Pretoria, 2022)

  This dissertation focuses on the question of intervening in a beautiful and untouched landscape, and the steps to ensure authenticity in design through the development of a lexicon of spatial experiences and forms, revealing ...
• Identifying and preserving urban landscape identity through public participation in the context of urban renewal : a case study of Kisumu City, Kenya 

  Kibirah, Edwin Oluoch K'oyoo (University of Pretoria, 2023)

  Urban renewal responds to physical deterioration within cities to improve the quality of urban life. Urban renewal in Africa is undertaken in once colonial societies with their existing spatial built forms undergoing changes ...
• End spaces : cremation and the architectural meaning of death in Johannesburg 

  Rodokanakis, Alexey (University of Pretoria, 2022)

  The dissertation explored the spatial and architectural parameters that create meaningful interactions within ritual and sacred spaces, focussing on the Braamfontein Crematorium as a site primed for re-ritualisation ...
• Urban riverscape : the city and river in tension 

  Smit, Carel Nicolaas (University of Pretoria, 2022)

  The river was first an element of attraction for early settlements. Riverscapes were established due to the potential use of the river as a resource or industrial driver. However, over time, riverscapes, as we see them ...
• A narrated emergence : a complex urban Integration of an informal settlement in Moreleta Park, Pretoria with its surrounding context 

  Meij, Ryan Dylan (University of Pretoria, 2022)

  In communities stigmatized by economic inequality, citizens who fall within the lower income bracket tend to migrate to the city, seeking the opportunity of gaining financial independence (Njwambe et al. 2019); they are ...
• Environment as a cognitive prosthesis : an architecture of interdependence that reimagines the traditional sources of social solidarity for the New Agers in Danville 

  Van Loggerenberg, Melicia (University of Pretoria, 2022)

  This mini-dissertation highlights the lack of age-inclusive interventions in public and social environments, specifically pertaining to the growing elderly demographic. A further critique of geriatric care architecture ...
• Towards an architecture of inclusivity : the building edge as the articulated urban connector, encouraging multiplicity and restructuring power relations 

  Short, Anna Brogan (University of Pretoria, 2022)

  The City of Tshwane’s story is intrinsically linked to power, due to its role as the administrative capital. The built form of the city centre reads as a palimpsest of the architectural expression of how socio-spatial ...
• Healing Fietas : using architecture as a healing catalyst to revive the lost memories of place and space 

  Gopaul, Katelyn (University of Pretoria, 2022)

  In addressing the issues of heritage loss, the significance of the past plays an important role in the reconciliation of the present that demonstrates true progress. Most heritage responses, which focus on the commercialisation ...
• (An)other space is possible : an exploration of the conflicts and contestations in the realisation of a “democratising” Public Space in the City of Tshwane 

  Makakavhule, Kundani (University of Pretoria, 2021)

  This thesis explores societal and municipal perceptions and meanings of urban public spaces in the City of Tshwane (CoT). Focus is placed on how these perceptions and meanings contribute to the conflict and contestations ...
• The Creation of Lived Public Spaces by African Migrants and People of Diverse Ethnicity in the Pretoria CBD and its Implications for Urban Planning A Phenomenological Investigation 

  Stander, Melchior Jacobus (University of Pretoria, 2019)

  The purpose of this study was to investigate the lived spaces created by African migrants and people of diverse ethnicity in the Pretoria CBD, and to determine the implications that they could have for the spatial planning ...
• In Defence of Idiosyncratic Learning Experiences 

  Rademan, Carla (University of Pretoria, 2021)

  Individuals are inherently different and so are their spatial needs related to learning. Unfortunately the current dominant learning space typology disregards this, opting for ‘one size fits all’ learning spaces that ...
• Eastern Exodus : utilizing light industrial typology as a vehicle for economic and urban regeneration in Pretoria West 

  Chauke, Joshua (University of Pretoria, 2021)

  The project set out to investigate the potential of using the light industrial typology as a vehicle for economic and urban regeneration in the western part of Pretoria CBD, which is home to a substantial number of light ...
• Designing with emergence : learning from the contemporary urban vernacular of informal settlements towards regenerative design strategies 

  Achi, Juliana Owot (University of Pretoria, 2021)

  In recent years, there has been increased promotion of regenerative development. However, concerning informal settlement policy and interventions, regenerative development practices are scarcely mentioned much less applied. ...
• City Farm Garden : countering the impacts of urban expansion in a rural valley in the Western Cape through a gardening approach to place-making 

  Hendrikse, Sonjia (University of Pretoria, 2021)

  Globally, the uniqueness of rural landscapes is at risk of disappearing (Makhzoumi & Pungetti 1999:16, 24). Global changes threaten traditional landscapes, biodiversity and the structure of rural society, and impact local, ...
• A market and urban farm for the empowerment of women street traders in the Tshwane CBD 

  Nemasetoni, Fulufhelo (University of Pretoria, 2021.)

  The informal economy is growing at a rate at which the formal economy is failing to accommodate workers and opportunities. This phenomenon can no longer be seen as just a temporary condition. Although arising from the ...
• [Re]connecting Ecology 

  Odendaal, Petrus Johannes (University of Pretoria, 2021)

  The natural world is an interconnected system made up of ecosystems and an abundance of species diversity that inevitably supports all life on Earth, including humans. Since our origin the humans race has worked in this ...
• The battered woman called Eersterust : exploring thresholds through urban regeneration and re-adaptation of religious buildings 

  Redelinghuys, Nikola Marianne (University of Pretoria, 2021)

  In post apartheid South Africa, an attempt to develop the influential church typology has been made on a micro scale, but within the community of Eersterust, the building has stayed frozen in time, not allowing the role ...
• Architecture as a driver for the athletic performance enhancement of professional swimmers at the University of Pretoria, TuksSport 

  Ras, Ruan (University of Pretoria, 2021)

  Sports architecture, through the standardisation and the intense control held by sports authorities over the past century, has experienced a change in identity: from a tool for social movements to a shell for commercial ...
• Reconciling the monumental and the everyday : reconsidering monumentality, memory, and identity in the City of Tshwane's transient urban landscape 

  Buffa, Adrian Giovanni (University of Pretoria, 2021)

  Monumental space plays an important role in the reification and celebration of history, memory, and identity in the built fabric. A continuum of monumental architecture and spaces within the City of Tshwane represents its ...
• Choreographing for the Nomad - a dance typology for the transient spaces of taxi ranks 

  Du Toit, Chanél Rosemarie (University of Pretoria, 2021)

  Transient spaces, understood as in-between spaces, are often characterised as ‘placeless’ by virtue of not being destinations, and as such meaning is negated by both everyday users as well as designers. This dissertation ...

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