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  • Encroachment, Architecture and Impaired Ecology 
    Du Plessis, Naas (University of Pretoria, 2014)
    In the contemporary built-environment the focus is very much on environmentally conscious design or so-called ‘sustainable’ design- or even the generic labelled ‘green’ architecture. Despite this popular and supposedly ...
  • Reconnect, restore, regenerate : creating restorative environments by regenerating the human-nature connection 
    Witthuhn, Lucille (University of Pretoria, 2013-12-09)
    The dissertation investigates how non-profit organisations (NPOs) can function more efficiently by sharing resources and services. The design responds with the strategy of service integration, by transforming the facilities ...
  • Landscapes that facilitate learning : Outdoor spaces that improve learner performance in Atteridgeville schools 
    Janse van Rensburg, Jako Stegmann (University of Pretoria, 2013-12-09)
    Low learner performance is one of the greatest challenges that confront South Africans in this post-apartheid era. Despite valiant efforts on the government’s part to improve the education system every year, successful ...
  • Equi Scape - an architecture, landscape architecture and infrastructure for humans and their equestrian companions in the urban environment 
    Slabbert, Philip Neethling (University of Pretoria, 2013-12-09)
    This dissertation explores the interface between people, horses and architecture as an edge, which allows it the opportunity to facilitate relationships and accommodate multiple users. City edges currently present themselves ...
  • Rebranding the silver market - The alteration of Huis Davidtsz from institution to place of living 
    Nicholson, Margaux (University of Pretoria, 2013-12-09)
    Places designed for the elderly tend be stigmatising, which is predicated in its medical engineering background. The institutional nature of these places accelerates decline as it negatively impacts on the health of its ...
  • Regenerating Berea Park: Design in pursuit of rekindling appropriation 
    De Swardt, Marisa (University of Pretoria, 2014-04)
    This dissertation aims to address actual needs/issues identified within Pretoria. The Berea Park precinct has become a proverbial rotten apple. The negative connotations linked to this site are tainting the image of the ...
  • Capital exchange 
    Horzook, Omar (University of Pretoria, 9-12-2013)
    This project is based on the realisation that there are gross misconceptions surrounding significant sites in Pretoria, stemming from the lack of cultural integration amongst differing communities. The proposed design ...
  • Narrative Factory 
    Steyn, Stephanus, Petrus (University of Pretoria, 2013)
    This thesis investigates the potential of narrative as a design generator and illustrates ways of extracting narratives from architecture through themed analyses of the proposed scheme. Discussions of cinematic and literary ...
  • Inner City Police Retreat 
    Viljoen, Yolandi (University of Pretoria, 2014)
    Man’s relationship with architecture is not intellectual, but associated with our emotive subconscious. The quality of space, as defined by architecture, is personified and evaluated through the experience it orchestrates. ...
  • An Urban Place of Education 
    Visagie, Linelle (University of Pretoria, 2014-04)
    How do we introduce new buildings in complex urban environments? Urbanist Jan Gehl (2010:97) argues that rapid developments in building technologies, social and economical sciences have resulted in an unprecedented amount ...
  • Redemption : arresting the daily exodus from Mamelodi through place making and production 
    Taljaard, Tialise (University of Pretoria, 2013-12-09)
    This dissertation investigates the idea of creating an engaging public place by introducing productive activity in a dormant area of Mamelodi where the effects of Pendulum migration and waste accumulation have caused public ...
  • Urban culinary workshop : re-emphasizing food in the urban environment 
    Nomico, Tom (University of Pretoria, 2013-12-09)
    The practices that have allowed farming to be separated from the city, with the resultant food security concerns, are being globally challenged. Simultaneously, low levels of employable skills in South Africa are magnifying ...
  • The imagination station : a centre to inspire & promote creativity in Newtown, Johannesburg, South Africa 
    Fleming, Bronwyn Wendy (University of Pretoria, 2013-12)
    As with the majority of Johannesburg areas, the Newtown Electric Power Station Heritage Precinct does not fully realise its potential for spatial relations facilitating creative means of living. Creativity is a powerful ...
  • [ HARVEST ] The insect : an experimental biotic platform for species interaction, research and production 
    Van Graan, Elita (University of Pretoria, 2013-12-09)
    The study contemplates the idea that, as modern man lives and thrives on Earth, we cannot look with anticipation into the future alone, but we have to integrate our every action with the past. Maintaining a delicate ...
  • INPRINT local fashion house - celebrating the parallels between interior architecture and fashion 
    Papaspyrou, Kyriaki (University of Pretoria, 2013-11-09)
    INPRINT is a local fashion house , involved with the adaptive re-use of the Saxon Building in the Pretoria CBD. The design attempts to: -Celebrate the relationship between past and present, new and old within architecture ...
  • A brewery in Marabastad - The liquid network 
    Cronje, Marie Lenette (University of Pretoria, 2014-04)
    How can architecture positively impact on the development of integrated economic, social and ecological systems in an urban precinct? This dissertation is about the role that architecture can play as a systemic tool in the ...
  • Territory 
    Steyn, Allan Hendri Edward (University of Pretoria, 2013)
    Marabastad has a history characterized by strife and turmoil on one end and jubilation and decadence on the other. To preserve sanity within these hardships, residents often turn towards music as a socioeconomic emollient ...
  • Locus of identity : public infrastructure that forms loci for cultural identity 
    Pieterse, Justine (University of Pretoria, 2012)
    This dissertation investigates the role of architecture in the emergence of community identity with specific reference to the spontaneous surfacing and expansion of informal settlements within the South African context and ...
  • A City Imagined 
    Matthysen, Johannes (University of Pretoria, 2012)
    This dissertation focuses on the re-conceptualization of Pretoria Central Business District (CBD), grounding the hypothesis within Paul Kruger Street. The author aims to provide a newfound approach to this historical ...
  • Trading-Up - A prototype for training centres at Builders Warehouse store 
    Oosthuizen, Charl Fredrick (University of Pretoria, 2012)
    Many unemployed construction workers, some with years of trade experience, often travel vast distances to the city and congregate daily at certain places in the city, hoping to earn a day’s wages and. Some have to sleep ...