Browsing Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology by Supervisor "Laubscher, Jacques"

Browsing Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology by Supervisor "Laubscher, Jacques"

Sort by: Order: Results:

  • Sound space training facility for the deaf and hard of hearing and sound exploratorium 
    Botha, Ilse (University of Pretoria, 2008-07-11)
    The Central Statistical Services (CSS) currently estimates that there are approximately 412 421 profoundly deaf people and approximately 1 237 264 extremely heard-of-hearing people in South Africa. Irene Bester of the SABC ...
  • Stripped - a vehicle disassembly plant 
    Snyders, Marius (University of Pretoria, 2011)
    The key theme of this research document is the negative impact of an increasingly expanding motor vehicle industry. The urban infrastructure and dependence on individual transportation has become an integral part of everyday ...
  • Taxi transit park - the relationship between movement and time 
    Buys, Gertruida Susanna (University of Pretoria, 2010-07-16)
    The purpose of the study was to establish a new place order in the transport grain for taxis through a design that will suit the urban context. It attempts to render taxis and their associated facilities preferable and ...
  • Threshold between land and sea : new waterborne transport node for the City of Maputo 
    Deacon, Catherine D. (University of Pretoria, 2011)
    The chosen project stems from the broader context of Maputo as waterfront city. Increased industrial privatisation of the harbour strip adjacent to the city’s historic Baixa district led to the relocation of public functions, ...
  • Treadmill : a haptic machine for idiosyncrasy and collective public space 
    Bohmer, Johann Gerhard (University of Pretoria, 2012)
    The investigations in this dissertation oscillate between objective and subjective notions in order to engage with reflective questioning. Mental projections are superimposed onto reality when the act of architecture takes ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...