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Encroachment, Architecture and Impaired Ecology
Dissertation MArch(Prof)--University of Pretoria, 2014
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/32791 Encroachment, Architecture and Impaired Ecology White, G.T. (Gary) naasduplessis@gmail.com Du Plessis, Naas Encroachment Impaired ecology Eco-tourism architecture Threshold Human Environment Ecological Environment UCTD F14/4/524/gm Dissertation MArch(Prof)--University of Pretoria, 2014 In the contemporary built-environment the focus is very much on environmentally conscious design or so-called ‘sustainable’ design- or even the generic labelled ‘green’ architecture. Despite this popular and supposedly informed preoccupation with the importance of the role of ecology in architecture, ‘green’ architecture is usually fixated on energy efficiency within the envelope of an individual building. This dissertation questions this limited, and often artificial and technologically driven, relationship between man and ecology. Fundamentally it questions the role of architecture as negotiator in this relationship. The author proposes an alternative way of viewing ecologically conscious architecture, where the intent of the architectural intervention is to respond directly to a given environmental issue and where its existential impact relates to its surrounding situation and the tension between man and ecology existing within the landscape, instead of turning its focus inwards to achieve isolated ‘environmental’ efficiency. Examples of such a specific issue, context and program with a collective goal of achieving these aims are hence forth elaborated on in the content of this dissertation. Architecture MArch(Prof) Unrestricted 2013-12-10T08:43:27Z 2013-12-10T08:43:27Z 2014 2014 Dissertation Du Plessis, N 2014, Encroachment, Architecture and Impaired Ecology, MArch(Prof) Dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/32791> http://hdl.handle.net/2263/32791 en © 2014 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 University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | Encroachment Impaired ecology Eco-tourism architecture Threshold Human Environment Ecological Environment UCTD F14/4/524/gm Encroachment, Architecture and Impaired Ecology |
| title | Encroachment, Architecture and Impaired Ecology |
| title_full | Encroachment, Architecture and Impaired Ecology |
| title_fullStr | Encroachment, Architecture and Impaired Ecology |
| title_full_unstemmed | Encroachment, Architecture and Impaired Ecology |
| title_short | Encroachment, Architecture and Impaired Ecology |
| title_sort | encroachment architecture and impaired ecology |
| topic | Encroachment Impaired ecology Eco-tourism architecture Threshold Human Environment Ecological Environment UCTD F14/4/524/gm |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/32791 |