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Browsing Architecture by Type "Mini Dissertation"
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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, 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 ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2018)This dissertation investigates the latent potential of the mining belt in Johannesburg through a regenerative theory, by placing a catalytic intervention which respects the heritage of the mining belt, with a focus on ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2004)Read abstract in the book
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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, 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, 2017)Throughout human history, people have migrated from one area to another for many reasons, including searching for better economic, political or other conditions that are assumed to improve the human standard of living ...
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APPOLO - Towards integrated urban education in Pretoria : a multi-functional vertical primary school (University of Pretoria, 2010)The Apollo Project investigates the recent establishment of numerous private educational institutions in the inner city of Pretoria. It identifies the need for adequate urban educational facilities and explores the use of ...
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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, 2017)This investigation looks into creating a resilient public building within a political continuum which can remain contextually relevant to multiple cultures and civic contexts that are in a constant state of change. The ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023)Heritage places and architecture in the city of Tshwane are notoriously undervalued and misused. These buildings are at risk of being lost due to a lack of public knowledge and legislative protection. Losing these places ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023)There is a gap for the documentation of heritage interiors in Tshwane. Together with heritage interiors, the value of the modern movement built fabric is also underrepresented. In the past, various conservation issues have ...
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Architectural Hybridity In Democracy : Reactivating Pretoria City Hall as a political civic center (University of Pretoria, 2018)In this paper commentary is offered on the role of architecture in a democratic society, as manifested in its use as a tool in the creation of spaces through which the public has equal opportunities for expression and ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2021)Sports architecture, through the standardisation and the intense control held by sports authorities over the past century, has experienced a change in identity: from a tool for social movements to a shell for commercial ...
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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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Architecture of the interface: engaging architecture in a long neglected public space : the street (University of Pretoria, 2020)The project set out to develop a non-typological approach to public space in a poly-centric city. The principle of third space was used to conceptualise an interface for public life that would potentiate both public and ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2018)Architecture without Land postulates the role of architecture without the promise of the ownership of land. It investigates the provision of land, secured with land tenure, as a development strategy in critical ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2021)Within the relation of architecture and the political, politics precede, supersede and often undermine design. When a problem, which has political causes, is addressed formally through architecture, the result often falls ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2019)The problem of authorship in the discourse of architecture has always persisted (Adjaye et al 2011). The question arises if what we are doing is relevant and will it remain so tomorrow? (Feireiss & Bouman 2011:14). Questions ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2020-12-16)Within the context of this dissertation, community transformative education is regarded as a pathway to an explicit community lifelong learning culture of learning. It aims to liberate marginalized communities from states ...
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