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A public bathhouse
Dissertation (MArch(Prof))--University of Pretoria, 2010.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/30202 A public bathhouse Laubscher, Jacques ruannvdw@gmail.com Van der Westhuizen, Ruann Ritual Service delivery Public transport Public Social Integration Isolation Privacy Bathhouse Infrastructure Marabastad Pretoria UCTD Dissertation (MArch(Prof))--University of Pretoria, 2010. This dissertation investigates the manifestation of a public bathhouse within a South African urban context. The proposal provides ablution and infrastructure to a public transport interchange precinct within Tshwane, Marabastad. The architectural exploration aims to enrich the ritual of cleansing by introducing the act of bathing to the public urban environment. Challenges associated with the typology is addressed through integration with surroundings, ensuring the potential of social life centred around a fundamental human act. The goal therefore lies in a celebration of ritual as derived from context, not the imposition of an ancient typology, or an irrelevant programme. The relevance to South African architecture is found in the investigation as a template for similar projects attempted in areas of similar context. A bathhouse is defined as an asset infiltrating, and proving for, its existing context. Copyright Architecture unrestricted 2013-09-07T18:16:54Z 2010-02-04 2013-09-07T18:16:54Z 2009-12-07 2010-02-04 2009-12-07 Dissertation Van der Westhuizen, R 2009, A public bathhouse, MArch(Prof) dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd < http://hdl.handle.net/2263/30202 > C10/47/gm http://hdl.handle.net/2263/30202 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-12072009-133644/ © 2009, 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 application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | Ritual Service delivery Public transport Public Social Integration Isolation Privacy Bathhouse Infrastructure Marabastad Pretoria UCTD A public bathhouse |
| title | A public bathhouse |
| title_full | A public bathhouse |
| title_fullStr | A public bathhouse |
| title_full_unstemmed | A public bathhouse |
| title_short | A public bathhouse |
| title_sort | public bathhouse |
| topic | Ritual Service delivery Public transport Public Social Integration Isolation Privacy Bathhouse Infrastructure Marabastad Pretoria UCTD |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/30202 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-12072009-133644/ |