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Theses and Dissertations (Architecture): Recent submissions

  • Hedges against extinction : An Inner City Regional Riverine Botanical Park 
    Potgieter, Josias (University of Pretoria, 2019)
    The central principle behind conserving river systems is to set aside a certain area of land to create representations of ecosystems that occur in the region to act as ecological or biodiverse depository. This is done to ...
  • Experiential retail, a catalyst to encourage sustainable habits 
    Van Der Merwe, Chanté (University of Pretoria, 2019)
    Design discourse (DPD 803) A global crisis of overconsumption and waste is acknowledged and being driven by the needs and wants of consumers (Goodwin et al, 2008), and fed by the retailers (Monnot, Parguel and Reniou, ...
  • Communal Garden Collective : Towards an emergent language of landscape for a communal park in Braamfontein 
    Venter, Conrad (University of Pretoria, 2019)
    Contemporary landscape interventions in Johannesburg are characterised by a monotonous spatial phenomenology contributing to the existing negative stereotypes surrounding the inner-city public domain. In this dissertation ...
  • Monumentalizing the invisible : using architecture as a tool to mitigate site of tension between the migrant citizen and institutes of power 
    Jairam, Pahlvi (University of Pretoria, 2019-12-10)
    The thesis stemmed from an interrogation into sites of urban decay, the inhabitants off such sites and the relationship between these sites and institutes of power such as government, police and legal organisations. A ...
  • The Just City 
    Gerber, Courtenay (University of Pretoria, 2019)
    "The right to a healthy, liveable and equitable urban environment that embraces diversity is one of the most precious yet most neglected of our human rights" (David Harvey, 2012:4). The urban public realm of many ...
  • Hybrid Ecological Identification 
    Kruger, Gustav (University of Pretoria, 2019)
    Hybrid Ecological Identification investigates the notion of representing African identity in architecture. This dissertation aims to contribute to the limited discussion on the hybridity between Western and African ...
  • Cultural nostalgia: a commemoration of Marabi 
    Matshaya, Inam Zanokuhle (University of Pretoria, 2019)
    Over the years architecture has played an integral role in the commemoration of past people, cultures and events. It has been used as a medium of memory making whether in the form of memorials, monuments and museums to ...
  • black grey white : to pimp a butterfly 
    Waleng, Katlego David (University of Pretoria, 2019-11-29)
    Barker (2015) argues that the making of architecture is a mediative approach to understanding the relationship between the strange and the familiar. He regards this processes as an act which gives an identity to the ...
  • Building Landscapes : mending the fracture between cite' and ville through an urban architecture of place 
    Minnaar, Pieter (University of Pretoria, 2019)
    Fioramonti (Mtongana 2017) argues that the only way to maintain and preserve our social and ecological assets and create a sustainable future for humanity, is to place the well-being of man, nature and their relationship ...
  • Missing Resource - Piecing Together Pretoria's Creative Future 
    Labuschagne, Breniann (University of Pretoria, 2019-12-10)
    An alternative school is an educational setting designed to accommodate educational, behavioral, and/or medical needs of children and adolescents that cannot be adequately addressed in a traditional school environment ...
  • Zoomorphism 
    Burger, Josias Eduard (University of Pretoria, 2019)
    The exploration manifests in the idea of coexistence where indigenous animals, nature and people could live in harmony. The dissertation questions the ethical aspects of a Zoo and the relationship between man and nature. ...
  • The Noka Theatre : Storytelling as social catalyst : Revitalising the historic Breytenbach Theatre in the old Overzicht Artists Village, Sunnyside, Pretoria 
    Van der Walt, Amy (University of Pretoria, 2019)
    Performance art presents a unique way to transfer stories, educate the community, and function as an integral part of rituals in many cultures. The concept of theatre is much like reading a book. It provides an escape, ...
  • Living with Carbon 
    Di Bon, Jason (University of Pretoria, 2019)
    This Living with Carbon project seeks to deal with the global systemic risk that climate change presents to society. It threatens the basic elements of life for all people which include access to potable water, food ...
  • Returning through the origin 
    De Wet, Roan (University of Pretoria, 2019)
    A long-standing problem has been that humans have removed themselves from the natural lifecycle and are, therefore, acting in a dominant role, allowing the anthropogenic to overshadow the ecological. The lost relationship ...
  • An Engaging Sports Centre 
    Hattingh, Thomas (University of Pretoria, 2019)
    The initial departure for this dissertation has grown from a personal interest regarding sports and the effect it can have on an individual as well as the interactions that occur as a knock-on effect with regards to athletes ...
  • The Retrofit and Regeneration of local vernacular 
    Veldsman, Karla (University of Pretoria, 2019)
    Historic Towns, such as Graaff-Reinet, have a long history. The genius loci of the architecture within the town fosters a critical reflection of the past. The preservation and conservation of architecturally significant ...
  • Forgotten space: constructing a relationship between architectural and infrastructural space. 
    de Villiers, Jean-David (University of Pretoria, 2019)
    Our modern urban environments consists of a complex system of interrelated infrastructures that give structure and order to our daily lives. The implementation and organization of these multi-layered elements has the ability ...
  • Ephemeral [Re]Urbanism : A Vacant Automobile Dealership Adapted to an Urban Informal Market 
    Moodley, Duren (University of Pretoria, 2019)
    Observation of Pretoria’s current urban condition has revealed a network of vacant automobile dealerships left in the wake of a national decline of new vehicle sales. Among which are two vacant dealerships that occupy ...
  • Sublime Simplicity : An Alternative Approach to the Adaptive Reuse of a Quarry in Midrand, through Minimal Landscape Design 
    Manda, Ruth A. (University of Pretoria, 2019)
    This dissertation explores the adaptive reuse and integration of wasted sites, with specific emphasis on quarries. Quarries are a contested landscape for reuse as they have the potential to become public open spaces ...
  • The Construct of an Urban Toolhouse 
    Bissett, Petrus Lafras (Fras) Uys (University of Pretoria, 2019)
    This dissertation responds to the current economic issues in Mamelodi West within the South African economic climate and how it is enforced by the respective spatial legacies. Currently the informal trade sector contributes ...