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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  • Architectural intimacy - an urban retreat 
    Bothma, Jacobus C (University of Pretoria, 2005-09-13)
    The purpose of this study is to investigate ritual in order to establish an intimacy between architecture and its users. The lithurgy of the Roman Catholic Church is used as a point of departure, but the study is especially ...
  • Architecture and identity : redefining the taxi industry 
    Mpye, Tebogo (University of Pretoria, 2010)
    Unlawful, renegade and detached, these are some of the metaphors that can be said to be the summation of the taxi industry. Albeit the taxi system predominantly operates as the chief transport mode, and economic enabler ...
  • Architecture as a means of labour : architecture contributing to contextual events through its consumption a clothing production facility in the City of Pretoria 
    Wadee, Salma (University of Pretoria, 2010)
    Traditional paces of production in an urban context have been crudely built as machines, exploiting the resources of a location without care for the consequences. Their success has been measured primarily in terms of how ...
  • Art Workshop : contextual architecture in light 
    Kotze, Willem Riaan (University of Pretoria, 2008-01-27)
    Architecture today is misunderstood. This statement does not engage in the tectonic, programmatic, systemic or contextual aspects of the art, but involves the presence of architectural meaning and experience. Therefore ...
  • At Jeppe : fostering an approach toward placemaking in the South African metropolis through the metamorphosis of a place of gathering 
    Dawjee, Muhammad (University of Pretoria, 2014)
    This dissertation investigates the transformative possibilities inherent in a contemporary urban artefact in Jeppestown, a significant historical suburb dating back to the settlement of early prospectors who sought a ...
  • The Caledonian sports ground : public space as part of inner city regeneration 
    Buhrmann, Mia (University of Pretoria, 2010)
    This dissertation investigates public space within a South African con¬text as part of inner city regeneration. The architectural exploration aims to respond to a specific site and neighbourhood needs as identified. ...
  • Drawing the building and building the drawing 
    Mouton, Jacques P. (University of Pretoria, 2014)
    The way we build is inherently bound to methods implemented when representing any proposed intervention. Superficially, it would seem that the techniques used for representing architecture have rapidly progressed, especially ...
  • Elandspoort 357-JR 
    Honiball, Thomas Wallace (University of Pretoria, 2010)
    Landscape design and architecture adhere to the similar principles of form making. These have been affiliated with nature through history, sharing dialogues of philosophy. As theoretical premise, an investigation at the ...
  • Facilities for the development of sport in conjunction with the 2010 Soccer World Cup : Sport administration building 
    Harcus, Karin (University of Pretoria, 2007-09-01)
    The discourse fuses philosophy and architecture through the application of the six concepts of contemporary architecture as identified by Bernard Tschumi. The six concepts are used as the topic for six chapters of this ...
  • Figures in the room - Robot City 
    Sindi, Tuliza (University of Pretoria, 2013-12-09)
    An oppressor-oppressed nature exists between adults and children. Children are not considered as individuals in the planning of cities but are rather treated as universal, homogenous beings. Their rights as competent social ...
  • Film and architecture : archive cinema complex 
    Bruwer, Jacobus Daniel (University of Pretoria, 2010-02-09)
    The aim of the thesis was to study the relationship between film and architecture. Qualitative research methods were employed during precedent studies. The dynamic medium of film inspired an architectural anchor, the South ...
  • Form and landscape : generating architectural form in Cullinan 
    Mattheus, Marcel (University of Pretoria, 2015)
    The landscape, industrial machine and human endeavour needs to be reconciled in Cullinan. The newly proposed group framework aims to do this by focussing on four nodes along a circular route which follows the circumference ...
  • The Gavel and the Ghost 
    Smit, Reynard (University of Pretoria, 2013)
    This thesis explores an alternative method of making Architecture based on ideas presented by Bruno Latour in “Give me a gun and I will make all buildings move” and concepts discussed by Peter Eisenman within “Diagram: An ...
  • INbetween 
    Smalberger, Suzanne (University of Pretoria, 2007-08-25)
    ‘The non-dialectical mean between which extremes are suspended constitutes something like an interface, which is the condition of the possibility and impossibility of seemingly seamless systems and structures. When radically ...
  • Indabox 
    Van der Watt, Werner Pieter (University of Pretoria, 2010-08-20)
    The development of a platform for community involvement in the decisionmaking processes for municipal management in the Tshwane area. This will ultimately lead to ownership.
  • _infill. reconfiguring public space 
    Van der Westhuizen, Liani (University of Pretoria, 2005)
    The study explores the infill of public presence in an urban gap in Pretoria's CBD. Urban cultural diversity is used as a point of departure, to propose a public facility in the city centre to become part of a network of ...
  • Inner City Police Retreat 
    Viljoen, Yolandi (University of Pretoria, 2014)
    Man’s relationship with architecture is not intellectual, but associated with our emotive subconscious. The quality of space, as defined by architecture, is personified and evaluated through the experience it orchestrates. ...
  • Institute for African Language Studies – an exploration of the constant and transformative 
    Novellie, Jacqueline (University of Pretoria, 2007-06-26)
    No abstract available
  • Interface : a new political landscape at the union buildings 
    Theron, Patricia (University of Pretoria, 2015)
    A Political Theatre, Think Tank and School of Representation at the Union Buildings are created in response to questions regarding identity, authenticity and authority within post-1994 South African Architecture. The design ...
  • Interpretation Centre 
    Smit, Nicolaas H (University of Pretoria, 2005-09-13)
    The Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site covers an area of over 47000 hectares in the north-western corner of Gauteng, straddling the boundary between Gauteng and North West provinces. The area is of outstanding universal ...