Browsing Masters Degrees (Architecture) by Title
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Finding a place in the city : a case study of Great Lakes region refugees in the eThekwini municipality.
(2011)Worldwide the experiences of refugees on place and their integration into host countries are understood differently. This study seeks to understand how asylum seekers and refugees found a place and settled in South Africa ... -
Freedom and unity in diversity : the role of architecture in the creation of an African Union centre.
(2006)Throughout the African continent several significant historical events occurred that partly influenced current problems in African societies. The Problems are economic underdevelopment, social crises, racism and internal ... -
"Go! Durban" as a catalyst for development, as means of integrating migrant workers and the city : a mixed use inter-modal transport hub for Durban.
(2016)This study stemmed from the high transport cost experienced by migrant workers who commute from the periphery to the city on a daily basis for work. This problem is a result of a combination of modern and apartheid city ... -
Government intervention and the use of the house for income generation in informal settlements : a case of Cato Crest, eThekwini Municipality.
(2011)This dissertation investigates how the upgrading of informal settlements impacts home-based enterprises (HBEs). De Soto’s ‘Mystery of Capital Theory’ suggests that the formalisation of tenure rights, through informal ... -
Great Zimbabwe : well of ancient wisdom : an examination of traditional Karanga mythology, symbolism and ritual towards an interpretation of spatial distribution and contextual meaning of symbolic structures and settlement dynamics of the royal settlement of Central Great Zimbabwe.
(2000)The intention of this thesis is to examine the possibility of seeing mythology and ritual as sources for understanding spiritual, symbolic and spatial structures in architecture. Mythology and ritual are used as sources ... -
The hermeneutics of architecture as a means for transposing public perception : towards the design of a transport interchange in the Durban Central Business District.
(2011)In South Africa today, railways, along with other forms of public transport have lost or in fact never had the same sense of sanguine appreciation that European stations embodied. Instead South African public transport ... -
High temparature flue gas desulfurization: experiments and modelling.
(2017)As stringent environmental regulations regarding SO2 emissions have been enacted in many countries, the removal of SO2 from flue gas has become a necessity. Conventional methods for flue gas desulfurization (SO2 removal) ... -
Historic hospitals in Natal.
(1988)The object of this research is to investigate in detail the origin and growth of Natal Hospitals - their design and function. The 19th Century saw the birth of the Republic of Natalia, and with it the establishment of towns ... -
Human perception and the built environment : a proposed Autism Life Learning Centre for Durban.
(2012)Buildings affect people both physically and psychologically, this study analyses this impact which the built environment has on people's lives. This interrelationship between people and the built environment is based on ... -
Iconism as a tool for social identity : a proposed city hall for Durban.
(2012)The concept of iconic architecture has been around for thousands of years. It has taken the form of great structures that have portrayed powerful messages, to impress and to intimidate society, from the pyramids and tombs ... -
Ideology and the making of built form : a contemporary museum of South African colonial history.
(2014)The aim of the study is to ascertain the prevalence of colonial ideology within contemporary museological practise. The Empire exhibition of 1936 is used as the basis from which to understand how colonial ideology constructed ... -
The impact of experiential learning in designing buildings for adult education : a proposed interactive education and training centre in Durban.
(2014)Due to the urgency in overcoming the unemployment epidemic in South Africa, vocational training institutions are very rigid in their approaches, serving to educate and train learners with minimal learner involvement. ... -
The incorporation of nature into architecture as a healing aid : a hydrotherapy health centre.
(2011)The intension of this dissertation was to investigate why architectural environments were not healing, but harming people, and what factors could be looked at in order to provide healing environments for mankind. The ... -
The indigenous architecture of KwaZulu-Natal in the late 20th century.
(2009)Studies on a variety of facets of the subject of indigenous African architecture have increasingly received the interest of many post-colonial researchers, in search for indigenous African identity in the international ... -
The influence of insurgency on socially responsive urban development : a proposed informal recycling facility for the informal cardboard recyclers of the Durban CBD, South Africa.
(2013)Lining the streets and the interstitial spaces of the developing cities of the modern world is an emerging citizenship that exists and thrives in the in-between. These are the new urbanites, the Insurgent Citizens; a ... -
The influence of Protestant doctrine on the development of church architecture.
(2011)Church architecture has evolved dramatically since its inception. It has changed shape, size and form, from simple houses converted to meeting places, to grand Gothic cathedrals, to high-tech auditoriums and modern structures ... -
The Influence of social resilience on architecture : toward the design of a multi-purpose centre for the senior citizen population in Durban.
(2018)The concept of resilience represents the social and spatial inequalities that exist among the senior citizen population and continues to grow everyday. The notion of resilience is as a result of the rapid global urbanisation ... -
The influence of the mediating qualities of sacred space, symbols and rituals on the built environment : a proposed inter-religious retreat and education centre for Durban.
(2010)The following dissertation deals with the qualities of sacred space that influence the architecture for religious building and how these qualities can be used in the creation of an inter-religious facility. The background ... -
The influence of traditional architecture on contemporary culture : a proposed Hindu cultural centre for Durban.
(2011)Religion is still a large driving force behind the manner in which people live today. Religion, especially the predominant practices that date back to our ancestors, is a driving force behind culture. It creates traditions ...