Urban (p)reserve : greening spaces, growing people

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dc.contributor.advisor Vosloo, Pieter Tobias en
dc.contributor.postgraduate Watson, Michael en
dc.date.accessioned 2017-05-03T14:09:15Z
dc.date.available 2017-05-03T14:09:15Z
dc.date.created 2017-04-19 en
dc.date.issued 2017 en
dc.description Mini Dissertation (ML (Prof))--University of Pretoria, 2017. en
dc.description.abstract The population density of the inner city of Tshwane is increasing, with further residential and commercial development being planned. The current design of the city centre is characterised by hardscape and buildings with an internal focus. This results in street edges devoid of stimulus or engagement for pedestrians, providing no relief for the attention demands of traffic, noise and crowds. There is also no provision for accessible green spaces, yet it is widely recognised that biophilia is an important aspect of people's psychological well-being and social development. The proposal is to use the structure of and spaces between buildings to alter hardscape areas to accommodate biophilic environments. This study focuses on the Transvaal Provincial Administration Building and addresses the challenges of how to enhance the benefits of biophilia in this urban landscape while contextualising the design to meet urban design requirements and respond to the Modernist architectural heritage. In addition, the predominant experience for inner city users is horizontal. To provide another dimension, this design proposes a vertical landscape which optimises the spaces between buildings and uses their structure in conjunction with elements of sublime theory to enhance the biophilic impact on users and influence behaviour in the urban environment. en_ZA
dc.description.abstract Die bevolkingsdigtheid van die stadskern van Tshwane is besig om toe te neem met verdere residensi?le en kommersi?le ontwikkelinge wat beplan word. Die huidige ontwerp van die stadskern word gekenmerk deur "hardscape" en geboue met 'n interne fokus. Die resultaat is straatkante wat geen stimulus aan voetgangers bied of wat hulle betrek nie en wat geen verligting bied vir die eise wat gestel word deur die verkeer, geraas en gedrang van mense nie. Daar is ook geen voorsiening vir toeganklike groen ruimtes nie ten spyte van die wye aanvaarding dat biofilia 'n belangrike aspek van mense se psigologiese welsyn en sosiale ontwikkeling verteenwoordig. Die voorstel is om om die struktuur van en die ruimtes tussen geboue te gebruik om die "hardscape" gebiede te verander ten einde die biofilise omgewing te akkommodeer. Hierdie studie fokus op die Transvaalse Provinsiale-gebou en bespreek die uitdaging van hoe om die voordele van biofilia in die stedelike landskap te verhoog en kontekstualiseer die ontwerp om te voldoen aan stedelike ontwerp vereistes met erkenning aan die Modernistiese argitektoniese erfenis. Bykomend, die oorwegende ervaring vir middestad gebruikers is horisontaal. Ten einde 'n ander dimensie te belig, stel hierdie ontwerp voor 'n vertikale landskap wat die ruimtes tussen geboue optimaliseer deur die gebruik van hulle strukture in samehang met elemente van sublieme teorie om die biofiliese impak op gebruikers te verhoog en hulle gedrag in die stedelike omgewing te be?nvloed. af_ZA
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dc.description.degree ML (Prof) en
dc.description.department Architecture en
dc.identifier.citation Watson, M 2017, Urban (p)reserve : greening spaces, growing people, ML (Prof) Mini Dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/60218> en
dc.identifier.other A2017 en
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/2263/60218
dc.language.iso en en
dc.publisher University of Pretoria en
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dc.subject UCTD en
dc.title Urban (p)reserve : greening spaces, growing people en_ZA
dc.type Mini Dissertation en


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