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Architecture: Recent submissions
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(University of the Free State, 2022-12)Since low-income and social housing are among the most vulnerable built environments to climate change, this article evaluates the energy performance of social housing in the context of enabling net-zero carbon social ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)This dissertation focuses on the question of intervening in a beautiful and untouched landscape, and the steps to ensure authenticity in design through the development of a lexicon of spatial experiences and forms, revealing ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023)Urban renewal responds to physical deterioration within cities to improve the quality of urban life. Urban renewal in Africa is undertaken in once colonial societies with their existing spatial built forms undergoing changes ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)The dissertation explored the spatial and architectural parameters that create meaningful interactions within ritual and sacred spaces, focussing on the Braamfontein Crematorium as a site primed for re-ritualisation ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)The river was first an element of attraction for early settlements. Riverscapes were established due to the potential use of the river as a resource or industrial driver. However, over time, riverscapes, as we see them ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)In communities stigmatized by economic inequality, citizens who fall within the lower income bracket tend to migrate to the city, seeking the opportunity of gaining financial independence (Njwambe et al. 2019); they are ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)The central aim of the project is to explore green infrastructure (GI) within an urban context in the Global South. Pauleit et al (2017:5) defines urban green infrastructure as “...a strategic planning approach that aims ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)This mini-dissertation highlights the lack of age-inclusive interventions in public and social environments, specifically pertaining to the growing elderly demographic. A further critique of geriatric care architecture ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)The City of Tshwane’s story is intrinsically linked to power, due to its role as the administrative capital. The built form of the city centre reads as a palimpsest of the architectural expression of how socio-spatial ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)In addressing the issues of heritage loss, the significance of the past plays an important role in the reconciliation of the present that demonstrates true progress. Most heritage responses, which focus on the commercialisation ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)“We train cultivating a will for awareness…… but almost everyone has a sensitive bullshit meter…we’ll notice how we tend to label what we see and then fail to see the thing in itself at all” (Mosko, Noden 2018:70-79) I ...
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(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2021-01-01)Gawie Fagan and his wife, Gwen, have had an illustrious career in the field of architectural heritage practice, spanning a period of over 50 years. They have run the full gamut of responses to architectural heritage, from ...
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(Routledge, 2021)No abstract available.
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(MDPI, 2021-12-29)Urban green infrastructure is not acknowledged in the Global South for the critical social and ecological functions it can provide. Contextual design solutions and innovative approaches are urgently needed to transform ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2021)This thesis explores societal and municipal perceptions and meanings of urban public spaces in the City of Tshwane (CoT). Focus is placed on how these perceptions and meanings contribute to the conflict and contestations ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2019)The purpose of this study was to investigate the lived spaces created by African migrants and people of diverse ethnicity in the Pretoria CBD, and to determine the implications that they could have for the spatial planning ...
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(International Information and Engineering Technology Association, 2021-08)Globally the adverse effects of climate change necessitate the implementation of resilient systems that respond to escalating weather fluctuations and increased urban vulnerability. This requires a shift from the traditional ...
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(Department of Public Works, 1948)The Department of Public Works is responsible for building public facilities: schools, hospitals, train stations, bus stations and road infrastructure. It can also be any physical building that is used for a public purpose. ...
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(Department of Public Works, 1941)The Department of Public Works is responsible for building public facilities: schools, hospitals, train stations, bus stations and road infrastructure. It can also be any physical building that is used for a public purpose. ...
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(Department of Public Works, 1949)The Department of Public Works is responsible for building public facilities: schools, hospitals, train stations, bus stations and road infrastructure. It can also be any physical building that is used for a public purpose. ...
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