Urban relics, memories of bygone eras, sit desolate and disregarded on the Northern and Southern fringes of the City of Tshwane’s inner-city, also known as Pretoria. Flaking facades, uninviting margins and deflected gazes have resulted in forgotten city  narratives, narratives that are immortalised in these monuments.  These compositions of culture, and remnants of the past, have fallen prey to the swift progress of the city and have been left forgotten as they retreat into the shadows of their former grandeur. Dwarfed by the bustle of the city and it’s towering urban fabric, a generation unknowing pass these urban gems daily, unaware of their past splendour. Existing now only as  urban scars, these buildings become spectators to the continued advancing and changing cityscape, they become invisible remnants of the city’s cultural and historical landscape.  The dissertation aims to generate a landscape design proposal for the Old Staatsmuseum building as an attempt to reactivate one such urban relic, to return it to some of its historic grandeur, and imagining new ways for old buildings to inject meaning into the cityscape. Drawing inspiration from creative industries, such as art, media and functional creations, the project investigates landscape architecture’s potential to; regenerate and remodel buildings into creative sites, prevent their further decay, celebrate their inherent adaptive history and  make them accessible to the new generation of city dwellers and visitors. Furthermore, such an attempt also seeks to connect and enhance the otherwise fragmented urban nature within the City of Tshwane, by connecting the Old Staatsmusem, to its context of the National Zoological Gardens, and further afield to the grassland landscapes of Gauteng. Landscape architecture is therefore used to present an allusion of the “continuation of cultural phenomena through built infrastructure” (Wong 2017:30) and as a catalyst for urban regeneration in the Pretoria inner-city. / Mini Dissertation (ML (Prof))--University of Pretoria, 2020. / Architecture / ML (Prof) / Unrestricted

The satisfaction of immediate needs, such as thirst and a need for shelter, often becomes the driving force of one’s movements when walking. The location of places of this nature often plays a key role in where people gather and spend most of their time. In the case of a small fishing town, such as Arniston in the Western Cape, spaces of this nature occur in isolation from key landmarks, disabling the opportunity to truly interact with the whole place, its heritage and its people. This dissertation deals with landscape heritage management and the challenge of identifying new strategies for achieving sustainable heritage tourism in cultural landscapes with “Living Heritage” (Court 2015). The International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM) claims that one such challenge is implementing strategies to ensure that cultural landscapes, that are still operational, remain and grow in operation, without losing its intrinsic value (Court 2015). In doing so, the method of heritage management must be adapted to accommodate current and possible future narratives. The spatial challenge of how touristic activities interact with heritage spaces and places in coastal fishing villages in South Africa will be highlighted. A specific focus will be placed on the spatial challenge of how one interacts with heritage artefacts, places and spaces along the route to the coastline in Arniston. Hypernaturalisation of the cultural landscape of Arniston in the Western Cape will be proposed in the form of a tourism movement sequence. This will guide interaction with Arniston’s landscape, its people and artefacts before and when one reaches the coastline. / Afrikaans: Die bevrediging van onmiddellike behoeftes, soos dors en 'n behoefte aan skuiling, word dikwels die dryfkrag van 'n mens se bewegings wanneer jy loop. Die ligging van plekke van hierdie aard speel dikwels 'n sleutelrol in waar mense bymekaarkom en die meeste van hul tyd spandeer. In die geval van 'n klein vissersdorpie, soos Arniston in die Wes-Kaap, kom ruimtes van hierdie aard afsonderlik van belangrike landmerke voor, wat die geleentheid het om werklik met die hele plek, sy erfenis en sy mense om te gaan, skakel. Hierdie proefskrif handel oor die bestuur van landskapserfenis en die uitdaging om nuwe strategieë te identifiseer vir die bereiking van volhoubare erfenistoerisme in kulturele landskappe met "Living Heritage" (Court 2015). Die Internasionale Sentrum vir die bestudering van die behoud en herstel van kulturele eiendom (ICCROM) beweer dat een so 'n uitdaging die implementering van strategieë is, om te verseker dat kulturele landskappe, wat nog steeds werksaam is, bly en groei, sonder om die intrinsieke waarde daarvan te verloor (Court 2015). Sodoende moet die metode van erfenisbestuur aangepas word om huidige en moontlike toekomstige vertellings te akkommodeer. Die ruimtelike uitdaging van hoe toeristiese aktiwiteite in wisselwerking is met erfenisruimtes en plekke in vissersdorpies aan die kus in Suid-Afrika, word belig. Daar sal spesifiek gefokus word op die ruimtelike uitdaging om te kommunikeer met erfenisvoorwerpe, plekke en ruimtes langs die roete na die kuslyn in Arniston. Hipnaturalisering van die kulturele landskap van Arniston in die Wes-Kaap word voorgestel in die vorm van 'n toerisme-bewegingsreeks. Dit sal interaksie met Arniston se landskap, sy mense en artefakte lei voor en wanneer 'n mens die kuslyn bereik. / Mini Dissertation (ML (Prof))--University of Pretoria, 2020. / Architecture / ML (Prof) / Unrestricted

Nearly 400 years ago during the Late Iron Age, a farming community called the Koni’s, lived on the escarpment in Mpumalanga who practiced cattle farming and crop cultivation by using stone. They migrated north in a linear direction from the current day towns of Carolina towards Ohrigstad. This community left remarkable stone walls behind that represent farming traditions worthy of being preserved as a World Heritage site. However, their culture and heritage have been abandoned and forgotten by many South Africans since the 1830s. The lack of awareness and protection of the archaeological remnants lead to the destruction and demolition of many stone structures. Today the stone walls remain hidden behind grasses and bounded by private farming properties which fragments this archaeological landscape. In response to these problems, a pilgrimage route is proposed that cuts through private properties which allows for the movement of people and cattle. Movement in this sense refers to historic farming functions such as grazing which will be continued within the pilgrimage route by the community to revive and manage the nominated World Heritage site to become a living heritage. The dissertation aims to showcase how landscape systems such as grazing can manage and revive an abandoned archaeological landscape while creating an opportunity for landscape design interventions. / Mini Dissertation (ML (Prof))--University of Pretoria, 2020. / Architecture / ML (Prof) / Unrestricted

This thesis investigates the potential of narrative as a design generator and illustrates ways of extracting narratives from architecture through themed analyses of the proposed scheme. Discussions of cinematic and literary space — media traditionally dominated by narrative construction — augment discussions of architecture. The site, in both its formal and programmatic history, is discussed as the primary generator of both programme and form for the Narrative Factory. A critical stance is taken in order to respond to the material legacy of apartheid, which, it is argued, is a latent quality of much of Pretoria’s urban fabric. The use of lost space is discussed as points of departure from which to approach this legacy. Video: http://vimeo.com/81337714 / Dissertation (MArch Prof)--University of Pretoria, 2014. / Architecture / MArch(Prof) / Unrestricted