Towards an architecture of inclusivity : the building edge as the articulated urban connector, encouraging multiplicity and restructuring power relations

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dc.contributor.advisor Barker, A.A.J. (Arthur Adrian Johnson)
dc.contributor.postgraduate Short, Anna Brogan
dc.date.accessioned 2023-02-03T13:00:51Z
dc.date.available 2023-02-03T13:00:51Z
dc.date.created 2023-04
dc.date.issued 2022
dc.description Mini Dissertation (MArch (Prof))--Univewrsity of Pretoria, 2022. en_US
dc.description.abstract 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 relationships have changed over time. Today however the spatial fabric is largely representative of past socio-spatial relationships of control rather than of transformation. These heritage buildings have contested memories associated with them. There is a disjunction between government architecture and the architecture of the everyday. This disjunction directly undermines the current government’s desire to make governance more accessible and to provide space for citizens to be participants in creating thriving democratic South African cities, and the capital ofTshwane in particular. This dissertation focuses on how architecture can translate invisible ideologies through built space and form, and investigates how architecture can reflect an attitude of inclusion and transformation. The research question poses: “How can architecture redefine the relationship between government and citizens in the City of Tshwane through introducing a new spatial government typology and succeed in making government more accessible?” A more inclusive architectural typology is explored though a design led investigation into how architecture can redefine relationships between government and citizens; government architecture and the city; and new architectural insertions and contested heritage. Existing heritage, typologies and spatial devices found in the City ofTshwane are reinterpreted to articulate and integrate an architecture of inclusion that simultaneously builds onto the continuum of its history while creating spatial transformation and cohesion with the urban fabric. en_US
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dc.description.degree MArch (Prof) en_US
dc.description.department Architecture en_US
dc.identifier.citation * en_US
dc.identifier.other A2023
dc.identifier.uri https://repository.up.ac.za/handle/2263/89144
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher University of Pretoria
dc.rights © 2022 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria.
dc.subject UCTD en_US
dc.subject Architecture en_US
dc.subject Democratic architecture en_US
dc.subject Social architecture en_US
dc.subject Phenomenology en_US
dc.subject City of Tshwane en_US
dc.title Towards an architecture of inclusivity : the building edge as the articulated urban connector, encouraging multiplicity and restructuring power relations en_US
dc.type Mini Dissertation en_US


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