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This document is submitted in partial fulfilment for the degree: Masters of Architecture [Professional] at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 2015 / The focus of architecture in South Africa is often centered on intense urban areas in the country. However, important though these areas are, they represent only one facet of the greater country. The rural areas around South Africa are repeatedly overlooked. Added to that, our rich heritage and increasingly unique and threatened relationship with the natural systems around us is often sidelined. Our relationship with the natural world is a complicated one. Humans, perhaps the only species on earth able to do so, have the opportunity to decide whether to live symbiotically with nature or parasitically. Unfortunately the choice is often the latter. One of the areas where our rather strained and openended relationship with the natural world is most apparent is in the impoverished rural Bonjaneni Community of the Amazizi Tribal Authority located in the Okhahlamba District of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Mankind’s negative impacts on this regions natural mechanisms are being felt locally and nationally in three particular areas that form the key points of focus for the thesis: grasslands, water systems and the decline of the Cape Vulture population. Grassland is of utmost importance ecologically, economically and socially for the region, without healthy grassland community livestock cannot survive, thatch cannot be gathered and the landscape will become prone to severe erosion during the rainy season. Erosion negatively affects the Tugela River water catchment basin too. Without healthy vegetation cover the landscape and community will become prone to flooding. Silt from the erosion will impact numerous dams further downstream that supply water to KwaZulu-Natal and the economic heartland of South Africa, Gauteng. The repercussions of a threatened population of Cape Vultures are also of concern. Without the specialised scavenger animal corpses will be left to fester in the sun, developing carrion borne diseases that can negatively affect the health of pets, people and livestock. These problems result in a considerable financial burden to the community and the government, yet these are all problems that can be addressed through responsible stewardship of the land and an awareness of our position in the natural world. / EM2017

Xiong, Yan. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2011. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 196-202). / Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Abstract also in Chinese; some appendixes in Chinese.

Chow Suk Pik. / "Architecture Department, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Master of Architecture Programme 2003-2004, design report." / Includes bibliographical references (leaf [93]). / Introduction --- p.1 / Issue --- p.7 / Experience --- p.14 / Study of Senses --- p.16 / Between Sane and Insane --- p.23 / Architectural Concepts --- p.28 / Idea of Spectrum --- p.26 / Connective Element in Architecture --- p.34 / Idea of Threshold --- p.38 / Site --- p.46 / Events --- p.52 / Construction --- p.54 / Perceived Spaces --- p.62 / Organisation of Spaces --- p.67 / Precedent Studies --- p.73 / Design --- p.82

Chiu Chui Ying Janus. / "Architecture Department, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Master of Architecture Programme 2005-2006, design report." / Includes bibliographical references.

Woo Kar Fai. / "Architecture Department, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Master of Architecture Programme 1998-99, design report." / In double-leaf format. / Includes bibliographical references. / MISSION STATEMENT / to create a new program which automobiles are integrated with human activities as a Vision for the future / OBJECTIVE / "merge the automotive space with appropriate human activities in order to provide a more CONVENIENT, efficient and valuable space for driver/passenger " / BACKGROUND / hong kong situation / historical studies on western countries / POSSIBLE PROGRAMS / church / driving park / temp. meeting place / automible exhibition / automobile inspection / restaurant&toilets / shopping center / theater / DESIGN APPROACHES / car as an unit when people Inside the car / car as part of the space when people outside the car / target users / private car / motor cycle / mini-bus / taxi / ARCHITECTURAL ISUES / Chapter - --- extension of body space / Chapter - --- extension of car space / Chapter - --- integration of human activities / Chapter - --- space and motion / Chapter - --- sequential form / Chapter - --- flexibility / Chapter - --- image / Chapter - --- accessibility / PRECEDENTS STUDIES / CAR DESIGN TRENDS / greener car / MVP / smart / futuristic designer / GENERAL TRENDS

Chan Wing Sum. / "Architecture Department, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Master of Architecture Programme 2005-2006, design report." / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 33-35). / Chapter I) --- Introduction --- p.02 / Chapter II) --- Research Studies --- p.03 / Reconsideration of a Kitchen --- p.04 / Function of Food --- p.05 / Chinese Food Culture --- p.05 / Chinese Catering Sequence --- p.07 / Present Situation --- p.07 / Xi'an hawker center --- p.09 / Studies on eating --- p.11 / Studies on cooking --- p.14 / Studies on catering school in Hong Kong --- p.15 / Chapter III) --- Culinary Art / Man / Architecture - Lived experience --- p.17 / Culinary Art --- p.18 / Architecture --- p.20 / Visual sense / Tactile sense / Smell / Sound / Taste / Man - self --- p.27 / Chapter IV) --- Design Experiment --- p.28 / Programme --- p.28 / Concept --- p.28 / Chapter V) --- Bibliography --- p.33 / Chapter VI) --- Appendix --- p.36 / Precedent studies --- p.36 / Site analysis --- p.42 / Model photos --- p.45 / Architectural Drawings --- p.51