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Theses and Dissertations (Architecture): Recent submissions
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(University of Pretoria, 2019)The dissertation ‘associative typologies,’ reflects on the social disconnection observed amongst urban participants in 21st Century urban environments. Exclusionary planning policies combined with the preferential ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2019)The forgotten infrastructure in cities are seen as sites which hold potential for rejuvenation. Some of which consist of heritage buildings which form important tangible links with the history of the city. The integration ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2019)The dissertation is an investigation of the potential inherent in creating a spiritually experiential and ritualistic path and place within Pretoria Central. It challenges the conventional typology of religious spaces ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2019)World ageing is rapidly increasing and a dramatic demographic shift in South African population is therefore also expected to grow. The increase in the proportion of the elderly population has led to the global issue of ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2019)This study explores the potential of using Henri Lefebvre’s spatial triad as a qualitative decoding tool for architect-designed residential interior spaces. Five selected residential case studies by South African ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2019)This dissertation investigates the re-industrialisation of our townships by using urban agriculture as a design driver. With global issues such as food pricing and population growth, these issues have had an impact on food ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2019-12-10)How can architecture create symbiotic relationships between the integrated social, economic, production and ecological realms which it resides, in order to remedy the currently dichotomous relationship? Sugarcane milling ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2019)Rapid urbanisation worldwide since the 1950’s has led to the depletion of ecosystem carbon pools and a loss of biodiversity, particularly in the urban environment. Urban expansion not only possess many threats to human ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2019-12-10)This dissertation offers a reading into three distinct sites of urban entertainment in Johannesburg, as a result of appropriation to post-industrial landscapes. The key to understanding Johannesburg’s seemingly disjointed ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2019-11)This dissertation deals with the creation of a place of refuge for asylum seekers and refugees through the adaptive reuse of the Old Poynton’s Building in Church Square, Pretoria. Migration of individuals, due to various ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2019)This study is an investigation into the links between food, place and people and how the resulting exchange influences the production of an interior artefact. Marabastad as the immediate physical context of the selected ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2019)Museums, much like any other historical establishment, reflect the perspectives or bias of the people who created them (South African Heritage Online, 2011). The socio-spatial contribution of museums in the City of Pretoria ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2019)During the minimalistic paradigm of the 20th century, in the quest to attain modern civilization, the ideal reciprocal relationship between architecture and landscape, man and nature, was abandoned as human needs and desires ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2019)Humankind has over the years borrowed ideas from, and also taken from, nature. What was in the beginning an intention to survive eventually morphed into humankind striving for superiority. In recent centuries humans have ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2019)The South African Architectural Landscape of the last fifty years has been characterised by mall retail development, suburban sprawl and environmental challenges. However, emerging in the 21st century are new realities ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2019)Within this dissertation, the Knowledge Economy is explored as an educational pathway for youth in Mamelodi, investigating how the surrounding entrepreneurial activity and economy can impact the design of a school in the ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2019-12-10)This dissertation deals with the makings of a multidisciplinary off-site manufacturing(OSM) education and research facility, focused on the development and use of Computer Aided Drafting (CAD) and Computer Aided ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2019)This dissertation questions the relevance of social housing in tradition-rich and low-income areas of South Africa. The aim is to analyse the appropriate way social housing should accommodate traditions and flexibility ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2019)A placelessness defines the architectural expression of our public institutions; the sterile, the predictable and the generic characterise the experience of spaces that are meant to celebrate the identity and the ideals ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2019)The diagnosis of the Sick Building Syndrome in the 1980s, raised concern for the effect of the built environment on its occupants. As adolescents spend ample time within learning environments, the design of schools, and ...
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