Machinarium

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dc.contributor.advisor Barker, A.A.J. (Arthur Adrian Johnson)
dc.contributor.coadvisor Peres, Edna
dc.contributor.postgraduate Van Eeden, Heidi
dc.date.accessioned 2013-12-10T08:44:14Z
dc.date.available 2013-12-10T08:44:14Z
dc.date.created 2014
dc.date.issued 2013-12-09
dc.description Dissertation MArch(Prof)--University of Pretoria, 2014. en_US
dc.description.abstract Machinarium is an exploration of industrial bio-mechanical hybridity as part of the 21st Century paradigm. The dissertation investigates the potential of industry as urban catalyst - a mechanism with which to regenerate urban environments and re-integrate socio-ecological systems. In an attempt to redefine modern concepts of waste and mitigate the flood of pollution emanating from 20th century industrialisation, the investigation is contextually based in an ‘urban wasteland’ - which is re-programmed as part of a new industrial ecology. The dissertation therefore blurs present-day distinctions between ‘social’, ‘productive’ and ‘natural’ space, while at the same time placing focus on the global cultural dependence on waste. If humankind is to survive the predicted crises of the our time, a 21st-century approach to design must shift the modern understanding of architecture as ‘machines for living in’ towards that of architecture as living machines. Machinarium alludes to new ways of architectural place-making in a rapidly changing world. en_US
dc.description.availability Unrestricted en_US
dc.description.degree MArch(Prof)
dc.description.department Architecture en_US
dc.identifier.citation Van Eeden, H 2013-12-09, Machinarium, MArch(Prof) Dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/32796> en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/2263/32796
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher University of Pretoria en_ZA
dc.rights © 2014 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. en_US
dc.subject Industrial ecology en_US
dc.subject Regenerative design en_US
dc.subject Bio-mechanical hybridity en_US
dc.subject 21st century industry en_US
dc.subject Waste en_US
dc.subject Textile production en_US
dc.subject Daspoort en_US
dc.subject UCTD
dc.subject.other F14/4/524/gm
dc.title Machinarium en_US
dc.type Dissertation en_US


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