Urban (p)reserve : greening spaces, growing people

dc.contributor.advisorVosloo, Pieter Tobiasen
dc.contributor.emailmichaelawtason13@gmail.comen
dc.contributor.postgraduateWatson, Michaelen
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T14:09:15Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T14:09:15Z
dc.date.created2017-04-19en
dc.date.issued2017en
dc.descriptionMini Dissertation (ML (Prof))--University of Pretoria, 2017.en
dc.description.abstractThe population density of the inner city of Tshwane is increasing, with further residential and commercial development being planned. The current design of the city centre is characterised by hardscape and buildings with an internal focus. This results in street edges devoid of stimulus or engagement for pedestrians, providing no relief for the attention demands of traffic, noise and crowds. There is also no provision for accessible green spaces, yet it is widely recognised that biophilia is an important aspect of people's psychological well-being and social development. The proposal is to use the structure of and spaces between buildings to alter hardscape areas to accommodate biophilic environments. This study focuses on the Transvaal Provincial Administration Building and addresses the challenges of how to enhance the benefits of biophilia in this urban landscape while contextualising the design to meet urban design requirements and respond to the Modernist architectural heritage. In addition, the predominant experience for inner city users is horizontal. To provide another dimension, this design proposes a vertical landscape which optimises the spaces between buildings and uses their structure in conjunction with elements of sublime theory to enhance the biophilic impact on users and influence behaviour in the urban environment.en_ZA
dc.description.abstractDie bevolkingsdigtheid van die stadskern van Tshwane is besig om toe te neem met verdere residensi?le en kommersi?le ontwikkelinge wat beplan word. Die huidige ontwerp van die stadskern word gekenmerk deur "hardscape" en geboue met 'n interne fokus. Die resultaat is straatkante wat geen stimulus aan voetgangers bied of wat hulle betrek nie en wat geen verligting bied vir die eise wat gestel word deur die verkeer, geraas en gedrang van mense nie. Daar is ook geen voorsiening vir toeganklike groen ruimtes nie ten spyte van die wye aanvaarding dat biofilia 'n belangrike aspek van mense se psigologiese welsyn en sosiale ontwikkeling verteenwoordig. Die voorstel is om om die struktuur van en die ruimtes tussen geboue te gebruik om die "hardscape" gebiede te verander ten einde die biofilise omgewing te akkommodeer. Hierdie studie fokus op die Transvaalse Provinsiale-gebou en bespreek die uitdaging van hoe om die voordele van biofilia in die stedelike landskap te verhoog en kontekstualiseer die ontwerp om te voldoen aan stedelike ontwerp vereistes met erkenning aan die Modernistiese argitektoniese erfenis. Bykomend, die oorwegende ervaring vir middestad gebruikers is horisontaal. Ten einde 'n ander dimensie te belig, stel hierdie ontwerp voor 'n vertikale landskap wat die ruimtes tussen geboue optimaliseer deur die gebruik van hulle strukture in samehang met elemente van sublieme teorie om die biofiliese impak op gebruikers te verhoog en hulle gedrag in die stedelike omgewing te be?nvloed.af_ZA
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dc.description.degreeML (Prof)en
dc.description.departmentArchitectureen
dc.description.librarianmi2025en
dc.description.sdgSDG-03: Good health and well-beingen
dc.description.sdgSDG-08: Decent work and economic growthen
dc.description.sdgSDG-11: Sustainable cities and communitiesen
dc.description.sdgSDG-13: Climate actionen
dc.description.sdgSDG-15: Life on landen
dc.identifier.citationWatson, M 2017, Urban (p)reserve : greening spaces, growing people, ML (Prof) Mini Dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/60218>en
dc.identifier.otherA2017en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/60218
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherUniversity of Pretoriaen
dc.rights© 2017 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 any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria.en
dc.subjectUCTDen
dc.subjectUrban (p)reserveen
dc.subjectGreening spacesen
dc.subjectGrowing peopleen
dc.subjectUrban greeningen
dc.subjectBiophilic designen
dc.subjectGreen infrastructureen
dc.subjectUrban designen
dc.subjectInner-city regenerationen
dc.subject.otherEngineering, built environment and information technology theses SDG-03en
dc.subject.otherEngineering, built environment and information technology theses SDG-08en
dc.subject.otherEngineering, built environment and information technology theses SDG-11en
dc.subject.otherEngineering, built environment and information technology theses SDG-13en
dc.subject.otherEngineering, built environment and information technology theses SDG-15en
dc.titleUrban (p)reserve : greening spaces, growing peopleen_ZA
dc.typeMini Dissertationen

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