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Theses and Dissertations (Architecture): Recent submissions
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(University of Pretoria, 2021)In South African townships, the realities of the scarcity of public spaces or poorly maintained and derelict recreational sites, are a continuous phenomenon. Additionally, the scars left from the apartheid spatial planning ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2021)This project is situated within the highly polarised and fragmented landscape of Moreleta Park, where contemporary manifestations of exclusionary apartheid values, in the form of gated communities, are confronted by the ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2021)In the inner city of Pretoria, the mobile urban dweller is confined to the sidewalk - a space of transition that promotes anonymity, indifference and transience. The mobile urban dweller has a desire for a place of refuge ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2021)The current spatial models and construction practices of architecture and city-making have a violent appetite. Linear resource consumption patterns, coupled with a rapidly increasing urban population, has pushed the planet ...
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Die/Dye : a liminal mediation between nature and industry in a changing industrial Silverton context (University of Pretoria, 2021)Set in industrial Silverton, this project deals with the mediation between nature and industry through the lens of liminality. The site for this investigation is the Silverton Cemetery, connected to the Moreleta Spruit. ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2021)Changes in consumption behaviour and consumption priorities present fertile ground to postulate different, more future-proofed forms of retail architecture. Considering the spectrum of retail interface; from e-commerce ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2021)The high productivity and low biodegradation of plastics within the consumerist market has led to an abundance of waste material. The disproportionate relationship of waste creation versus waste management systems particularly ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2021)Iron age ruins are often associated with disoccupation and ‘safely-dead’ cultures, and are disconnected from current urban and cultural development. This perception creates a risk that this part of a South African heritage ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2021)The informal settlements of South Africa are commonly marginalised urban systems existing within larger formal urban landscapes. Due to their marginalisation, informal settlements often lack formal infrastructure, ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2021)The Khalambazo Buffer Zone is a natural buffer, formed along the banks of the Pienaarspruit. The apartheid government strategically used this landscape condition to divide the communities of Mamelodi into different ethnic ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2021)The built environment in the industry responsible for giving of most CO2 gas emissions and has the biggest environmental load of any industry in South Africa, yet in the 21st century with its consumer culture buildings ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2021)It is projected that by the year 2050, over 60% of the world’s population will be living in cities . General studies have shown that rural-urban migration leads to urban gentrification. Such issues, in turn, cause urban ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2021)Without significant changes to the consumption of resources in our cities, the Earth’s demand for material resources is estimated at 90 billion tonnes by 2050, compared to only 40 billion tons in 2010. This unsustainable ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2021)Since independence in 1994, informal settlements in urban areas became a regular phenomenon with an exponential growth pattern and a lack of effective, proactive town planning. This phenomenon is described as an Urban ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2021)The discourse of the dissertation is focused on the near future development of Durban’s premier port towards the year 2048 (Transnet 2019: 37) whilst reflecting on the developmental interest of the city to extend or overlap ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2021)The exclusionary landscape of Moreleta Park is defined by SLOAP (Space(s) Left Over After Planning) and can be viewed as a hyper-densified trope of South Africa’s tense suburban state – and of its possible future (Creswell ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2021)The intentions of this dissertation are to investigate the phenomenon of neglected buildings and urban spaces occupied and appropriated by the homeless, and to explore the spatial and design potential that this appropriation ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2021)The pandemic undoubtedly disrupted people’s lives worldwide, causing rapid shifts in work typologies and proving that humans are inherently social beings who require some degree of interaction. The following project ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2021)The cannabis industry is developing rapidly worldwide, and in the context of recent legal developments South Africa is on the brink of exploiting it as a new local industry on a large scale. With the biggest potential for ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2021)The research project is focused on the notion of indexicality and interiority to address the role of interior architecture in informal settlements through a semiotic approach to meaning-making. The notion of semiotics is ...
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