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Theses and Dissertations (Architecture): Recent submissions
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(University of Pretoria, 2015)The landscape, industrial machine and human endeavour needs to be reconciled in Cullinan. The newly proposed group framework aims to do this by focussing on four nodes along a circular route which follows the circumference ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2014)Islamic architecture is understood to have a distinct set of elements which emotively contribute to the divine logic of ritual and spiritual manifestation. This rationality, however, is imitative and has been boldly ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2014)Current toxic interactions between the systems of man, nature and machine in the diamond mining town of Cullinan are volatile and cannot be sustained. When the mine and the main economic system regress, how can ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2014)The intention and aim of this investigation is to pursue a coherent and cogent argument, as the architectural discipline exists as a profession of relationships, where nothing exists in isolation. Volume 1 is a vantage ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2014)Landscape had significance to society once. The significance of these landscapes was associated with agronomic practices, a spiritual connection to nature, and a platform for social interaction within the community. To ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2014)Read abstract in the document
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(University of Pretoria, 2014)Creating sanctuary within an inhospitable world is one of man’s inherent needs. Even in the desert, Man’s sole means of survival is determined by whether he can find oasis: a fertile place within the vast expanse of the ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2014)This dissertation investigates the transformative possibilities inherent in a contemporary urban artefact in Jeppestown, a significant historical suburb dating back to the settlement of early prospectors who sought a ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2014)In Mabopane’s core, designers have, in an idealistic, static and utopian fashion, created environments for a society that does not exist, which has resulted in a tension between formal environments and informal activities. ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2014)In the Stone Town of Zanzibar, a World Heritage Site, the amalgamation of various cultures has created a complex architectural as well as cultural heritage. Public space is regarded as male space due to the strong Islamic ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2014)The post-apartheid repetition and insertion of an unchanged standard clinic design across South Africa, has resulted in a number of urban and design problems stemming from the architecture of the clinics and their inability ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2014)Please read abstract in the main document
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(University of Pretoria, 2014)Public rail transport interiors must be adaptable and cater to a wide target market to address the diverse needs of the South African public. Local rail transport competes directly with air travel for market share. ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2014)Interior design is more than just the design of spaces. It is the study of human activity, interaction, movement and spatial governance. These result in the user being both emotionally and physically involved in the ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2014)The focus of this dissertation is on the exploration of interior environments subjected to constant change. This study will investigate the ability of interior design to relate and respond to internal and external ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2014)Industries became a permanent addition to cities in the 18th century, transforming the natural landscape and influencing the people directly dependant on it, this enforces to the consumer culture we experience every ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2014)Through the consideration of Adorno’s theory of ‘negative dialectics’ the existing society of art is in a state of alienation. This idea considers units of similarity abstracted from one another and thereby establishing ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2014)South Africa’s shameful migrant labor policies of the past have left a socioeconomic mark on the families of millions. The ruin in the garden has long been a fascination of many artists and poets, but in the case of an ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2013)Architecture is explored here as a series of effects that influence the experience of living on earth. A work of architecture is a kind of terminal of effects that produces certain experiences for those who encounter ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2013)The documented legacy of South African architect Norman Musgrave Eaton (1902– 1966), as preserved at the University of Pretoria, provides the material for a contemporary analysis and extrapolation of his domestic oeuvre ...
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