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A critical analysis of participatory design processes leading to the employment of low-tech emerging building technologies
Mini Dissertation (MArch (Prof))--University of Pretoria, 2024.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/101534 A critical analysis of participatory design processes leading to the employment of low-tech emerging building technologies Bothma, Cobus kaylap0906@gmail.com Potgieter, Kayla UCTD Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Craft Emerging building technologies Participatory design Hand-based construction Timber construction Earthen construction Mini Dissertation (MArch (Prof))--University of Pretoria, 2024. The study investigates the impact of industrialisation on an architects' roles, proposing a shift towards incorporating low-tech building technologies through participatory design processes. It critiques the shift from the architect as a master builder to a more fragmented role due to advances in industrial techniques. The research aims to re-establish architects as integral to the entire building process by emphasising sustainable, community-based, and culturally resonant construction methods. Modern design processes are linear and separated from the rest of the construction industry, where practitioners mainly use conventional technologies. This research report explores the use of low-tech emerging building technologies and participatory design processes in a South African context. The focus will primarily be on hand-based, local and indigenous building technologies and how these methods could positively influence the design and construction processes. The main questions of this study deal with how a participatory design process can lead to the employment of low-tech emerging building technologies. The study focuses on when and why South African practitioners who follow a participatory design process employ low-tech emerging building technologies. It also explores the value of employing low-tech building technologies and how they could aid in better understanding the value of indigenous building technologies. The methods used in this study to analyse data are as follows: Firstly, five themes were identified from the literature to assess different projects and practitioners in the South African context. These themes include unskilled and skilled participatory design and hand-based, local, and indigenous building technologies. Existing case studies in an emerging building technology catalogue format have been analysed according to the themes. The following practitioners who most resemble this specific study were chosen from the catalogue to be interviewed. Their feedback was analysed using the same categorisation tool for the themes. Finally, precedent studies were conducted on each interviewee's projects and analysed according to the themes. A better understanding of low-tech building technologies through the adoption of participatory design processes could lead to the adoption of it by more practitioners in the South African context. Thus leading to more cultural, economic, ecological, and socially sustainable design practices. Architecture MArch (Prof) Unrestricted Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology SDG-09: Industry, innovation and infrastructure 2025-03-17T14:34:39Z 2025-03-17T14:34:39Z 2025-04 2024-06 Mini Dissertation * A2025 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/101534 https://doi.org/10.25403/UPresearchdata.28062269 en © 2023 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | UCTD Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Craft Emerging building technologies Participatory design Hand-based construction Timber construction Earthen construction A critical analysis of participatory design processes leading to the employment of low-tech emerging building technologies |
| title | A critical analysis of participatory design processes leading to the employment of low-tech emerging building technologies |
| title_full | A critical analysis of participatory design processes leading to the employment of low-tech emerging building technologies |
| title_fullStr | A critical analysis of participatory design processes leading to the employment of low-tech emerging building technologies |
| title_full_unstemmed | A critical analysis of participatory design processes leading to the employment of low-tech emerging building technologies |
| title_short | A critical analysis of participatory design processes leading to the employment of low-tech emerging building technologies |
| title_sort | critical analysis of participatory design processes leading to the employment of low tech emerging building technologies |
| topic | UCTD Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Craft Emerging building technologies Participatory design Hand-based construction Timber construction Earthen construction |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/101534 https://doi.org/10.25403/UPresearchdata.28062269 |