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Theses and Dissertations (Architecture): Recent submissions

  • Latent Potential 
    Renton, Robert (University of Pretoria, 2019-12-06)
    This dissertation developed as a response to an existing condition of separation, fragmentation and a history of a tabula rasa approach to Marabastad’s urban heritage. The exploration of latent and layered potentials as ...
  • Memory and Being 
    Vermaak, Kim (University of Pretoria, 2018)
    Healthcare environments in South Africa are designed with the main focus of primarily receiving patient satisfaction and furthermore providing shorter healing processes (Life Healthcare Group, 2017). Medical centres are ...
  • Distil - Liminal Architecture 
    Van der Hoven, Marni (University of Pretoria, 2018)
    Between the serene natural landscape of the Magaliesberg and the bustling chaos of the Mamelodi West Township lies an understated threshold that links these two contrasting environments. The heritage of the landscape tells ...
  • Up-Cycling Architecture 
    Mandy, Ryan (University of Pretoria, 2018)
    Cultural Heritage is an expression of the way of living developed by a community and passed on from generation to generation , including practices, places, objects and architecture (ICOMOS , 2002). Across Gauteng , heritage ...
  • The Critical Juncture 
    Mills, Nadine Frances (University of Pretoria, 2018)
    In attempt to bring symbolic and spatial restitution to the post-apartheid city, city-makers have introduced spatial gestures of compensation within the depraved landscapes to serve as symbols of the reformed city. Although ...
  • Establishing an Ecosystemic Narrative 
    Coetsee, Walter (University of Pretoria, 2018)
    Rehabilitation of post-industrial sites has become a major concern due to the growing awareness of the fragile state of the natural environment. This awareness has been met with the enactment of legislation that enforces ...
  • Activating the Edge : a Centre for Urban Citizenship 
    Nortje, Timme-Loise (University of Pretoria, 2018)
    Universities are social institutions functioning as negotiating forces at the intersection of localities and people (Taylor & Luter 2013:16). The current fence surrounding the University of Pretoria, Mamelodi Campus spatially ...
  • Fort Commeline - From Ruins to Substance : an Untold Narrative of Magazine Hill 
    Jansen van Rensburg, Heinrich Eduard (University of Pretoria, 2018)
    English: This dissertation focuses on the re-interpretation of Fort Commeline, a former British fortification of the 1880’s guarding the “Skietpoort” (valley) of the southern entrance to Pretoria. In addition, it investigates ...
  • Lines, Landscapes & Lore : Waterval Boven as a case study for regenerative heritage remodelling as a strategy for small towns rejuvenation 
    Semelane, Siphiwe (University of Pretoria, 2018)
    Approaches to heritage management in a South African context are often riddled with questions of ownership and who holds the rights to narrate which heritage (Mnyaka & Minkley, 2015, p. 57). As a result there is often an ...
  • Re-Creation - The De-Stigmatisation of a Post-Industrial Site 
    Jordaan, Robert (University of Pretoria, 2018)
    Eersterust, where the site is located, was born out of a series of discriminatory laws and actions by the Apartheid government, with the so-called Coloured community relocated to the area and further segregated by natural ...
  • Replicating the Bilbao Effect in Pretoria West through means of landscape architecture 
    Strydom, Hercules J (University of Pretoria, 2018)
    The industrial age has left behind many urban spaces and buildings frozen in time. The city of Bilbao tackled the issue by commissioning famous architect, Frank Gehry, to design an award winning branch of the Guggenheim ...
  • Network of Opportunity : Architecture as a Medium for Upliftment of the Urban Poor Through the Activation of Derelict Urban Spaces 
    Malebana, Mpho (University of Pretoria, 2018)
    ABSTRACT This dissertation manifested from the issue of derelict urban spaces and the displaced homeless people in these spaces. Vagrants live in derelict urban spaces around Pretoria due to the assumption that these ...
  • The Urban Oasis - [RE]-Generating Centurion Lake Through Resource Exchanges 
    Snyman, Roland (University of Pretoria, 2018)
    A global attitude shift occurred during the 15th century that changed the relationship between man and its natural environment. This shift was brought by the Renaissance world view, where man is superior to nature and all ...
  • Gather. emerging identities through event design at Salvokop 
    Maree, Simone (University of Pretoria, 2018)
    The design proposes a satellite event of the 2019 Presidential Inauguration conceived as a public gathering that takes place in Salvokop, Pretoria. A bilateral approach will be adopted. Firstly, implementing event as a ...
  • A School For 'In-Betweeners' 
    Kolatsis, Alexia (University of Pretoria, 2018)
    This dissertation, constituted from a juncture within our educational landscape, one that has particularly come to light under the banner of #FeesMustFall, postulates the role of an educational facility and its resultant ...
  • The Unending Rainfall of Architecture 
    Janse van Vuuren, Cindi (University of Pretoria, 2018)
    A didactic response through architecture is secure through the re-establishment of the importance of knowledge, education and culturally appropriate debate through sound. This introduces the program of the local MamsFM ...
  • The Secret Life of Streets 
    Ghillino, Nadia (University of Pretoria, 2018)
    This dissertation investigates the issue of homelessness by considering its relevance to the scope of the interior architecture discipline. The theoretical premise driving the investigation is based on the ‘urban interior’ ...
  • Shaping the future : the potential for resilience through the adaptive reuse of House Boeschoten 
    Mabote, Tumelo Percival (University of Pretoria, 2018)
    The dissertation investigates the production of resilient buildings as a strategy to future proof the relevance of NZASM heritage in Sunnyside. The study specifically focuses on a NZASM single-family residence located ...
  • A framework for entrepreneurship education training and support for South African architects 
    Vosloo, Christo (University of Pretoria, 2017)
    Many South African architects’ firms are finding it difficult to prosper in the changing economic and business environment. While all the contributing factors are not obvious, it is suggested that the lack of entrepreneurship ...
  • An integrated systems-design methodology and revised model of sustainable development for the built environment in the Information Age 
    Macagnano, Marco (University of Pretoria, 2018)
    This thesis was developed to investigate the current models of sustainable development and architectural working and design practice and process to respond to the challenges of the current era defined as the Information ...