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No abstract available / Dissertation (MArch (Prof))--University of Pretoria, 2007. / Architecture / unrestricted

South African cities reflect Apartheid policies of spatial segregation. They exhibit cases of sprawl, fragmentation and isolation, leading to partial thresholds and inefficiencies in social equity. The city of Tshwane is no exception. It has populations of marginalized and impoverished groups residing in remote settlements far from their places of employment. The 1994 adoption of a new constitution in South Africa opened new avenues to address and redress these spatial characteristics of apartheid planning, to create better urban environments. This dissertation is a reaction to the 1994 constitution, exploring ideas of spatial integration and identity in the previously marginalized community of Marabastad in Tshwane. At present, Marabastad has a harsh atmosphere of crime, unemployment, homelessness and the lack of a sense of community. The prevalent issues in this community are the needs for social infrastructure and identity: an identity that reflects and accommodates the different cultural groups, and promotes reintegration of spaces within Marabastad and the Pretoria C.B.D. A social platform for expression is a means to address the lack of social infrastructure. This platform would encourage both spontaneous and organized events to activate the urban surface of Marabastad / Dissertation (MArch(Prof))--University of Pretoria, 2010. / Architecture / unrestricted

To design an innovative building that addresses social activities with a jazz theme as a design generator. The jazz component may include activites such as: recording, teaching and performance. The social component may include a restaurant, Jazz club, braai areas and outdoor games. / Dissertation (MArch(Prof))--University of Pretoria, 2008. / Architecture / unrestricted

Most South African cities bear the mark of Apartheid planning; with large sectors of society being geographically isolated from job opportunities. Tshwane is one such city; developing over time from a system of segregation and social exclusion, to a policy of integration under the formation of the Government of National Unity in 1994. Countless commuters travel to the city over distances reaching as far as Soshanguve and Khadubeng. Unsurprisingly “many new projects built with post-apartheid public funding work around points of mobility such as transport interchanges” (le Roux, 2003:17). Improving public transport facilities is the most apparent symbol of integration. This dissertation aims to exploit the concept of social integration and advancement of previously disadvantaged people through designing an adequate public transport facility. Situated north-west of Pretoria (the Tswane CBD area), Marabastad is an area that presents the opportunity for a development of this kind. Aligning with important nodes and major routes passing through the city, not only poses potential for development in the public transport sector but also the promotion of Marabastad as a significant symbol of the rich cultural heritage of South Africa. The current precinct is extremely run down and viewed as a slum by its inhabitants and visitors alike. Public open space is deficient, no facilities are provided for hawkers and homeless people and basic services such as water and sanitation are non-existent. The Pretoria ISDF (1999:2) identifies Marabastad as an area in need of “urgent urban intervention”. The building will be designed to accommodate evolving functions, generated from the rituals associated with transport interchanges. Acting as a gateway to the city, the building is functionally diverse. It offers access to public toilets, opportunities for informal trade, an informal overnight sleeping area, formal taxi ranking facilities, and a social gathering place. The development will also include a community hall, storage facilities, rentable office space, an eatery, mechanics workshop, and other public amenities associated with taxi ranking. A program is generated for a building through the superimposition of existing rituals and processes occurring on and around the site. A sense of place is naturally spawned from existing fabric over time. This process of creating place can be directed by designing facilities that offer opportunities for evolution and appropriation. The project will focus simultaneously on the formal and informal aspects of places for social gathering, such as transport interchanges. The challenge lies in the incorporation of the formal and informal to create a social facility with a sense of place for the community, as well as a sense of permanence and integration. The building acts as an envelope creating spaces which allow activities to develop unofficially and spontaneously while bearing a great sense of formality and certainty. / Dissertation (MArch(Prof))--University of Pretoria, 2007. / Architecture / unrestricted

This thesis explores city making, specifically good public space. The City of Tshwane is envisaged “to become the leading international African capital city of excellence…” (TICDRS; 2005: 5). Public transport is identified as being one of the interventions for achieving this vision. The Tshwane Spatial Development Strategy 2010 and beyond state that “the ability to travel from one place to another is a basic requirement of a successful metropolitan area.” The inner city core and the Marabastad precinct represent the heart of the Inner City and its Capital City significance. The main feature defining Marabastad’s character today are the public transport systems contributing to the area as being an intermodal transport node (IUDFM; 2002: 253). This thesis develops a multi-nodal transport interchange hub in Marabastad at the Belle Ombre train station. The program of the building is made up of three parts: Firstly the building defines a new public square in front of the Belle Ombre train station that is also the termination point for the green strip running through Marabastad, as planned in the Integrated Urban Design Framework for Marabastad. This square also provides a spill-out point for all the commutors of the various transport facilties surrounding the square. Secondly to provide formal facilities for the proposed new Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) and inner city distribution bus system, and thirdly to provide a connection for these new transit systems to the Belle Ombre train station. The building will have a mixed use character with programs such as informal market, offices and transitional housing units. “Transport interchanges have become the agora of the newly democratic state, the place of maximum commercial exchange and social interaction” (Deckler; 2006: 59). Copyright / Dissertation (MArch(Prof))--University of Pretoria, 2010. / Architecture / unrestricted

The theme of this dissertation is recycling and recycling-awareness to the users of the city on a physical and non-physical level. In this the user of the city will be introduced to the effect of recycling on a city and how it can change a city positively from the inside out. The theme includes physical recycling of building material, the recycling of existing dilapidated buildings on the site and the recycling of the existing informal functions and activities on the site. The added programming of the development supporting the building material recycling centre, consist of an existing ZCC, community centre, training facility and taxi mechanic facility. / Dissertation (MArch(Prof))--University of Pretoria, 2008. / Architecture / unrestricted

The dissertation investigates the notion of resilience in the urban environment. The potential for architecture to adapt to the changing contexts. The study focuses on regenerating decayed urban environments using a relationship between architecture and the landscape. / Dissertation (MArch(Prof))--University of Pretoria, 2014. / Architecture / MArch(Prof) / Unrestricted

Post Apartheid freedom architecture constructs new narratives and encounters with our past. Often representing the collective memory, these spaces exclude peripheral memories, displaced communities and negate engaging with intangible heritage. These sites of memory are points of intersection where our past, present and future collide and where the individual and society is called to construct and anchor our identities and envision our future. The institutionalised history beckons an inevitable distortion; an agreement between selective remembering and forgetting and in that process of accessibility, identity is invented. The dissertation will focus on the contemporary constructs of identity in post apartheid South Africa, through a study of memory and remembering, set within the existing heritage conservation area of Marabastad, Pretoria. The architectural intent seeks to find a regional response to memory space. It aims to construct space where memory and community can be reactivated, confronted and explored- a setting that draws out memory and encourages reflection by relocating the intangible and varying perspectives into the public realm. The overall architectural intent seeks to challenge contemporary production of memory space, to disrupt the traditional notion of containment and to celebrate the relationship of the past to the present by acknowledging that the past cannot be framed in a linear manner. Architecture will be explored as a mnemonic device where memory can dwell with time such that it acquires a dynamic character freely accessible to individual interpretation. / Dissertation (MArchProf)--University of Pretoria, 2014. / Architecture / MArch(Prof) / Unrestricted

An exploration of sustainable architecture and environmental philosophy with the aim of developing a high-tech sustainable building system, research and development centre. The unit should address job creation and access to commercially viable green building systems, information and skills. / Dissertation (MArch(Prof))--University of Pretoria, 2008. / Architecture / unrestricted