Browsing Theses and Dissertations (Architecture) by Title

Browsing Theses and Dissertations (Architecture) by Title

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  • 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. ...
  • Zwartkoppies dairy : celebrating the uncanny affair of milk 
    Botha, Darryn Nicolas (University of Pretoria, 2012)
    This dissertation addresses the relationship between life, time and architecture. It places the notion of memory within a changing landscape that stimulates remembrance; manipulating physical, functional, and sensorial ...
  • Zwartkoppies farm complex : exploiting a redundant cultural landscape for social, ecological and economical development 
    Scheffer, Bianca (University of Pretoria, 2013-12-09)
    The cultural landscape has long been the indigenous language of man and the original inhabitancy of all living things. Humans evolved amongst animals, under the sky, upon the earth and near water resources. We have touched, ...