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Architectural rubble : the manufactured landscape of Granger Bay
Includes bibliographical references.
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School of Architecture, Planning and Geomatics
2015
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| author | Philotheou, Christina |
| author2 | Coetzer, Nic |
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| institution | University of Cape Town (South Africa) |
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/13162 Architectural rubble : the manufactured landscape of Granger Bay Philotheou, Christina Coetzer, Nic Silverman, Melinda Architecture Includes bibliographical references. Throughout the process of this dissertation I have explored an architecture that can truly represent the reality of the manufactured landscape and the complexities of such a morphology. It is with this interest that I found Granger Bay and its inherently manufactured qualities. It is a landscape that is simultaneously natural and artificial. An enquiry into the shift from the natural to the artificial was explored in terms of what it means for our reading of place as well as how architecture can encompass this new terrain. In the study of this site, like an archaeological investigation, the story of ‘unbuilding to build’ arose from the ground; discovering Granger Bay’s true genius loci, which is grounded in rubble and the stories of the buildings that make up its rubble ground. It was with these ideas that I allowed the landscape to inform and generate a unique architectural language where boundaries are blurred between nature and man-made and enclosure and opening. The key informants to this design are the various geometries and forces that act on the site: Fort Wynyard’s sight lines, the buried natural landscape, the ocean, rubble ground and the memory of the Alhambra Theatre. Through design I hope to have harnessed the sites latent energies and unleash the potential of Granger Bay’s favourable location with key infrastructure and public space. 2015-06-29T07:50:28Z 2015-06-29T07:50:28Z 2014 Master Thesis Masters MArch (Professional) http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13162 eng application/pdf School of Architecture, Planning and Geomatics Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment University of Cape Town |
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| title | Architectural rubble : the manufactured landscape of Granger Bay |
| title_full | Architectural rubble : the manufactured landscape of Granger Bay |
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| title_short | Architectural rubble : the manufactured landscape of Granger Bay |
| title_sort | architectural rubble the manufactured landscape of granger bay |
| topic | Architecture |
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