Browsing Theses and Dissertations (Architecture) by Title

Browsing Theses and Dissertations (Architecture) by Title

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  • The waiting place : creating social gathering space 
    Van der Westhuizen, Lourette (University of Pretoria, 2010)
    This dissertation takes the opportunity to explore an existing building in need of change owing to changing environments. The proposed project is situated within the city context of Pretoria and aims to address the unavoidable ...
  • The wall and the veil : reclaiming women's space in a world heritage site 
    Verster, Mia (University of Pretoria, 2014)
    In the Stone Town of Zanzibar, a World Heritage Site, the amalgamation of various cultures has created a complex architectural as well as cultural heritage. Public space is regarded as male space due to the strong Islamic ...
  • WARP + WEFT : translating textiles into interior architecture - in search for inspiration and continuation of African textile traditions 
    Raubenheimer, Hendrieka (University of Pretoria, 2012)
    WARP and WEFT is a textile making guild, intricately woven into KNOOP, the proposed Clothing and Consumer Science building for the University of Pretoria. This building is situated in Hatfield next to the railway line, in ...
  • Wasop : dissesive architecture 
    Wessels, Ilze Mari (University of Pretoria, 2017)
  • Water in Yeoville : considering fantasy and fragment in responsive urban placemaking 
    Roux, Marzanne (University of Pretoria, 2016)
    Johannesburg's urban fabric is characterised by fragmentation. The natural landscape beyond and its remnants in the city are absorbed in a diffuse urban landscape. In the development of the public park in Yeoville, it ...
  • Water Wise Centre, Prinshof - Pretoria 
    Van Wyk, Hendrik C (University of Pretoria, 2005-04-26)
    Water Wise education Centre. This centre focusses on the teaching of water wise living methods. It assist one to become aware of the little water resources we have available and ultimately teaches one how to live in a self ...
  • [We are] designing : the South African pavilion for world expo 2020, Dubai, UAE 
    King, Taryn V. (University of Pretoria, 2016)
    The 'Beyond' as Bhaba1 (1994:1) conceives it, is "neither a new horizon, nor a leaving behind of the past"; rather it is the borders to the present. These boundaries of the present are the "that from which something ...
  • WELL-Learning : Promoting learner well-being through deployable schooling infrastructure 
    Van der Merwe, Twané (University of Pretoria, 2019)
    The diagnosis of the Sick Building Syndrome in the 1980s, raised concern for the effect of the built environment on its occupants. As adolescents spend ample time within learning environments, the design of schools, and ...
  • Western limb tailings reclamation project 
    Van den Berg, Mader J (University of Pretoria, 2006-07-27)
    A new approach towards waste management in a mining environment is developed and applied. This dissertation specifically studies the storage and management of tailings in the platinum industry as well as the associated ...
  • What we WEAR: Alteration to support a circular economy driven by post-consumer textile waste generated by fast fashion. 
    De Beer, Sarlien (University of Pretoria, 2020)
    The value consumers attach to their clothing creates a high demand and frequent consumption of fast fashion. This results in the increase of post-consumer textile waste that ends up on landfills, which has a negative impact ...
  • Wildelife Research and Rehabilitation Facility 
    Lippi, Nadia (University of Pretoria, 2006-02-01)
    The purpose of the project is to evoke a sense of time and place in design. It is the investigation of the dynamic that develops between old architecture and a contemporary approach in refurbishment as well as the relationship ...
  • Wood for the trees : a temporary theatre for the performance of 'Circles in a Forest' 
    Myburgh, Janri (University of Pretoria, 2010)
    In the world of architecture a field of tension exist between permanence and temporality. The aim of this study was to explore the possibilities residing within this duality. During the urban investigation conducted in the ...
  • Wupperthal 
    Franklin, Marike (University of Pretoria, 2015)
  • X marks the spot 
    Gey van Pittius, Barend Christiaan (University of Pretoria, 2009-02-19)
    A new centre for Archaeology and Anthropology : a proposal to create an edificial link towards connecting historical study to future course. Copyright
  • YoUrban living room : interaction and identity in Esselen Street, Trevenna 
    Petzsch, Elzbeth E (University of Pretoria, 2012)
    The phenomenon of urban identity escapes narrow definition. Its relevance to the interior design context arises as a tool for regeneration where it can assist to capitalize on the potential of particular places and social ...
  • Zest for life - a student health and wellness centre 
    Vermeulen, Marilu (University of Pretoria, 2009-04-20)
    Health centres, like hospitals and clinics, tend to be unwelcome, sterile environments. This dissertation is about the making of a conventional and complementary health centre that aims to be a place-making building. This ...
  • ZOO : Animatechnic : Architecture as Escapism 
    Van Sittert, Lambert Petrus (University of Pretoria, 2011)
    To seek the essence of architecture in the provision of physical control would be to reduce architecture to mere building1. This dissertation questions the accepted pre-eminence of the rational over the intuitive in ...
  • Zoo inverso : an investigation of landscape architecture as an instrument to convey experience, habitat and beauty within a zoological garden enclosure 
    Engelbrecht, Marissa (University of Pretoria, 2014)
    This dissertation explores the experiential quality of zoological garden enclosures and the threshold between man and animal. This exploration manifests within the context of man’s act of demarcation represented in zoological ...
  • ZOOGATE : a forecourt to the National Zoological Gardens 
    Saunders, Dusty Wood (University of Pretoria, 2010)
    The project originated as a means to find a solution to the lack of legibility that the National Zoological Gardens’ entrance expresses where it is situated on the Northern gateway into the Pretoria CBD. In order to develop ...
  • Zoomorphism 
    Burger, Josias Eduard (University of Pretoria, 2019)
    The exploration manifests in the idea of coexistence where indigenous animals, nature and people could live in harmony. The dissertation questions the ethical aspects of a Zoo and the relationship between man and nature. ...