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Establishing an Ecosystemic Narrative
Mini Dissertation (MArch (Prof))--University of Pretoria, 2018.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/68267 Establishing an Ecosystemic Narrative Barker, A.A.J. (Arthur Adrian Johnson) walter.coetsee@gmail.com Coetsee, Walter Pretoria West Regenerative Ceramic Steel Iscor Manufacturing Biophilia UCTD Slag Heap Engineering, built environment and information technology theses SDG-11 Engineering, built environment and information technology theses SDG-13 Engineering, built environment and information technology theses SDG-15 Mini Dissertation (MArch (Prof))--University of Pretoria, 2018. Rehabilitation of post-industrial sites has become a major concern due to the growing awareness of the fragile state of the natural environment. This awareness has been met with the enactment of legislation that enforces rehabilitation as a post-industrial activity. The motive underpinning such legislation is rooted within a mechanistic worldview and is concerned with the management of natural resources to prolong its exploitation for the purposes of maintaining developmental status quo (du Plessis, 2012: 8). As a result, rehabilitation addresses the symptoms of dysfunctional interactions with nature rather than establishing new symbiotic interactions which would address the causes of natural degradation. In the case of the Pretoria Steel Works, symptomatic rehabilitation has a limited scope of intervention, failing to re-establish the natural complexity that existed before industry. A rehabilitation approach is implemented that seeks to erase all evidence of industrial activity on site thus threatening the industrial heritage of Pretoria. This approach also negates the latent potential of adaptive reuse and its inherent economic benefits. This dissertation will investigate the implementation of ecosystemic thinking as an alternative approach to postindustrial rehabilitation. This approach seeks to address both the cause and symptoms of natural degradation by establishing a new symbiotic relationship between humans and nature through the implementation of theories related to biophilia, regeneration and heritage conservation. Architectural applications of these theories in facilitating ecological remediation and complexity will be explored. The Pretoria Steel Works will form the platform for investigation in this dissertation and will seek to set a precedent for the redevelopment of similar post-industrial sites providing an alternative to the traditional rehabilitation approach. mi2025 Architecture March(Prof) Unrestricted SDG-11: Sustainable cities and communities SDG-13: Climate action SDG-15: Life on land 2019-01-25T07:12:50Z 2019-01-25T07:12:50Z 2019 2018 Mini Dissertation Coetsee, W 2018, Establishing an Ecosystemic Narrative, March(Prof) Mini Dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/68267> A2019 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/68267 en © 2018 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 | Pretoria West Regenerative Ceramic Steel Iscor Manufacturing Biophilia UCTD Slag Heap Engineering, built environment and information technology theses SDG-11 Engineering, built environment and information technology theses SDG-13 Engineering, built environment and information technology theses SDG-15 Establishing an Ecosystemic Narrative |
| title | Establishing an Ecosystemic Narrative |
| title_full | Establishing an Ecosystemic Narrative |
| title_fullStr | Establishing an Ecosystemic Narrative |
| title_full_unstemmed | Establishing an Ecosystemic Narrative |
| title_short | Establishing an Ecosystemic Narrative |
| title_sort | establishing an ecosystemic narrative |
| topic | Pretoria West Regenerative Ceramic Steel Iscor Manufacturing Biophilia UCTD Slag Heap Engineering, built environment and information technology theses SDG-11 Engineering, built environment and information technology theses SDG-13 Engineering, built environment and information technology theses SDG-15 |
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