Browsing Theses and Dissertations (University of Pretoria) by Supervisor "Van Rensburg, Rudolf Johannes"

Browsing Theses and Dissertations (University of Pretoria) by Supervisor "Van Rensburg, Rudolf Johannes"

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  • Layering the city : re-use of the old Pretoria Fire Station 
    Van Wyk, Isabel Mari (University of Pretoria, 2011)
    Due to considerations for sustainable development and urban sprawl we have to address the growing concern of abandoned buildings and cities. Underutilised buildings and urban spaces are the development sites of the future. ...
  • Legibility between the lines : exploring everyday literacies through economic and creative skills training 
    Prestedge, Grant Alexander (University of Pretoria, 2010)
    This study aims to define an architecture of opportunity within the context of everyday literacies. In the adaptation of an existing building, holding anonymity within the Pretorius Street skyline and the information ...
  • Liminal public infrastructure : a typology of public space for everyday performances 
    Alkayyali, Ahmed (University of Pretoria, 2011)
    Every day the city plays out its spectacle unnoticed. This quotidian context is one which is full of complexity, spontaneity and possibility. It is here that architecture can engage with both the city and its user, space ...
  • Magazine Hill : a weathered continuum 
    Gouws, Cliff (University of Pretoria, 2011)
    NDLTD Innovative ETD Award 2012. This dissertation is rooted within a process of unification, a personal struggle to understand the fragile relationship that exists between architecture and time. The project focuses on ...
  • Memory and the wasteland 
    Koch, Norbert Axel (University of Pretoria, 2012)
    This dissertation was inspired by the discovery of a machine in the industrial wasteland of Pretoria West. The machine, a flour mill built in 1908, has been extended and transformed and layered through time. Symbolic of ...
  • Mindscape - a centre for creative development in Sunnyside 
    Peres, Edna (University of Pretoria, 2007-08-23)
    Mindscape, the subject of this dissertation, is a centre for creative and holistic development in Sunnyside, which will demonstrate how built environments communicate with users through their perception and sensory ...
  • Mkhonda Lodge and Educational Farm – creating a new vernacular 
    Krynauw, Anso (University of Pretoria, 2006-03-02)
    This thesis focuses on the design of a lodge and all its components, which include accommodation, exhibition spaces, conference facilities, restaurants, public services, fishing dams and a certain amount of cottages. ...
  • Modulayer-Berea Park Learner's Resource Centre 
    Strydom, Cornus (University of Pretoria, 2005-04-06)
    The designed building is a proposed Learner's Resource Centre situated in Berea Park. The development will be funded by the European Union and managed by a section 21 company of tertiary institutions and government ...
  • Music Performance Lab : architecture as a sensory conductor 
    De Kock, Servaas Willem Lourens (University of Pretoria, 2009-01-27)
    In our current ocular-centric society few spatial experiences stimulate the full penchant of our senses. Most experiences of space can be reduced to a single experience of sensory bliss. How do we create a functioning civic ...
  • Narrative Factory 
    Steyn, Stephanus, Petrus (University of Pretoria, 2013)
    This thesis investigates the potential of narrative as a design generator and illustrates ways of extracting narratives from architecture through themed analyses of the proposed scheme. Discussions of cinematic and literary ...
  • Network : depolarize the city - a media centre 
    Van der Merwe, E.L. (Elizabeth Louisa) (University of Pretoria, 2008-08-12)
    The project is aimed at the depolarization of the polar community of the Metropolitian of Tshwane. This is done through creating a network by means of a media centre. This project is also to adress the transition phase, ...
  • Orient community art centre 
    Aphane, Mathebe Ramasele (University of Pretoria, 2008-07-22)
    The original dissertation was received from the student and the font displays illegible. The design of an architecture which will make art accessible to the community.
  • Pistons, pins-ups & fisticuff - a graphic narrative exploration of architectural design 
    Wolf, Lewis (University of Pretoria, 2012)
    The project is an investigation of the development of architectural space through drawing. The aim is to arrive at a design through the use of a graphic novel. The building has three programmes that augment the current ...
  • Re-programming public space 
    Bjornstad, Jensen Arne (University of Pretoria, 2007-03-13)
    No abstract available. Copyright 2006, 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 ...
  • [Re]claim 2013 - reconciliation of urban place & indigenous meaningfulness reintegration with ecological systems reclaiming infrastructure for a new typology 
    Erasmus, Rudolph (University of Pretoria, 2012)
    The methodologies of Modernism and Industrialization and the rigorous application thereof, in isolation, led to a condition where space and place is fragmented, segregated and disconnected by lost, decayed and left over ...
  • Recycling - a Marabastad community development 
    Kunz, Barend Mattheus (University of Pretoria, 2008-08-05)
    The theme of this dissertation is recycling and recycling-awareness to the users of the city on a physical and non-physical level. In this the user of the city will be introduced to the effect of recycling on a city and ...
  • Stitch_ an architecture of connection 
    Struwig, Dewald De Villiers (University of Pretoria, 2010-02-05)
    The chosen project originated as a response to humanity’s need to eat, and the agricultural processes necessary to feed the global population. The proposed solution will investigate the connection of physically and ...
  • A study in Time 
    Boer, Gerhardus Petrus (University of Pretoria, 2006-02-03)
    The building for the school of the Built Environment focuses on the concept of time as form giver in architecture. Time, a governing factor of existence, regulating simultaneously through a linear and cyclical pattern in ...
  • Surfaces&services : a public space for information, communication and discussion 
    Da Costa, Mary-Anne (University of Pretoria, 2008-04-17)
    The role of architecture, public space and a valid architectural expression in the African City were all issues that were explored in the dissertation. It is a speculative work that proposes strategies and tactics and looks ...
  • T.I.R.F Tuks Interactional Research Facility 
    Naude, Werner Johan (University of Pretoria, 2009-04-20)
    The study of architectural surface to the end of developing `Deep Surface and the implementation of the deep surface to aid in the development of a new research facility for the University of Pretoria.