Van Rensburg, Rudolf Johannes2013-09-072013-04-052013-09-072013-04-0420122012-12-07Wolf, L 2012, Pistons, pins-ups & fisticuff - a graphic narrative exploration of architectural design, MArch(Prof) Dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/30219>C13/4/59/gmhttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/30219Dissertation MArch(Prof)--University of Pretoria, 2012.The project is an investigation of the development of architectural space through drawing. The aim is to arrive at a design through the use of a graphic novel. The building has three programmes that augment the current conditions of the context. A motorcycle workshop and showroom; a boxing academy, and short term accommodation [apartments]. If fiction is really an invented reality, then protagonists are interpretations of projected contexts. The use of a comic offers a subjective perspective of design, as well as the ability to explore spaces where architecture is a backdrop. This is similar to the use of architecture in film. Parallel to the progression of the storyline, the process of illustrating the scenes forms the platform for the development of the architectural design.en© 2013 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 PretoriaAccommodationMotorcyclesBoxing clubDrawingsComicsUCTDDissertation