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Browsing Theses and Dissertations (University of Pretoria) by Supervisor "Barker, A.A.J. (Arthur Adrian Johnson)"
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(University of Pretoria, 2013)Architecture is explored here as a series of effects that influence the experience of living on earth. A work of architecture is a kind of terminal of effects that produces certain experiences for those who encounter ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2021)In the inner city of Pretoria, the mobile urban dweller is confined to the sidewalk - a space of transition that promotes anonymity, indifference and transience. The mobile urban dweller has a desire for a place of refuge ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2012)This dissertation investigates architecture's potential role in improving the experience of the daily commute into and out of the city. It is proposed that an architectural intervention that takes into account the 'embodied' ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2021)Sports architecture, through the standardisation and the intense control held by sports authorities over the past century, has experienced a change in identity: from a tool for social movements to a shell for commercial ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2010)The project explores the expression of meaning in architecture against the backdrop of the City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality as post-apartheid capital city. The architectural aim of the project is the consolidation ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2018)Architecture without Land postulates the role of architecture without the promise of the ownership of land. It investigates the provision of land, secured with land tenure, as a development strategy in critical ...
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Audible architecture - An exploration of the threshold in the public realm as an interactive space (University of Pretoria, 2012)This project is situated in Olievenhoutbosch - a still-developing community - within a new urban design framework called the Olievenhoutbosch Osmosis Framework, which is a student project criticizing the original ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2021)In post apartheid South Africa, an attempt to develop the influential church typology has been made on a micro scale, but within the community of Eersterust, the building has stayed frozen in time, not allowing the role ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2018)“Building processes seem best evoked in terms of various forms of endemic uncertainty which, in turn, define an essentially turbulent industrial environment. The pursuit of stability is re-interpreted as ‘unstable equilibrium’ ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2014)Current toxic interactions between the systems of man, nature and machine in the diamond mining town of Cullinan are volatile and cannot be sustained. When the mine and the main economic system regress, how can ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2016)Architecture can be described as a medium of communication; it is a physical, malleable fabric that can be manipulated and adjusted to convey meaning or an idea. According to theories by Fredrich Kitler, communication ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2014-04)How can architecture positively impact on the development of integrated economic, social and ecological systems in an urban precinct? This dissertation is about the role that architecture can play as a systemic tool in the ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2019)Fioramonti (Mtongana 2017) argues that the only way to maintain and preserve our social and ecological assets and create a sustainable future for humanity, is to place the well-being of man, nature and their relationship ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2010)This dissertation investigates public space within a South African con¬text as part of inner city regeneration. The architectural exploration aims to respond to a specific site and neighbourhood needs as identified. ...
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(University of Pretoria, 9-12-2013)This project is based on the realisation that there are gross misconceptions surrounding significant sites in Pretoria, stemming from the lack of cultural integration amongst differing communities. The proposed design ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2016)A public interface for the infrastructure of Hartbeespoort Dam Water sustains all living things on this earth and has a huge impact on the natural environment. Water is the most valuable natural resource on this earth. ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2012)"The world of supermodernity does not exactly match the one in which we believe we live, for we live in a world that we have not yet learned to look at. We have to relearn to think about space.” (Augé, 1995:35)The ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2015)This study will develop a framework, comprising a set of design considerations, that sheds light on what ideas (theories) and what events (practices) result in the architectural analysis, conceptualisation, and making ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2014)Three underlining themes govern this dissertation They are as follows: -Change as a constant, indefinable factor within South Africa’s emergent public -Architectural informants as linear, process-driven vectors, and the ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2016)Read abstract in the document
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