- Title
- Expressions of “Local” and “Global” Identity: The Design of an International Convention Centre for Port Elizabeth
- Creator
- Pretorius, Hanri
- Subject
- Convention facilities -- Port Elizabeth
- Subject
- Architecture -- Designs and plans
- Date Issued
- 2020-09
- Date
- 2020-09
- Type
- Master's theses
- Type
- text
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10948/59128
- Identifier
- vital:60266
- Description
- Convention centres are highly flexible business and leisure gathering spaces where memorable experiences happen indoors. These centres are usually surrounded by perfectly manicured landscaping, strategically placed hotels in the immediate area, and an abundance of fashionable restaurants aimed at creating a lifestyle experience that will ensure that clients return. This convention centre experience can be found in almost every city that has a convention centre. These centres’ designs have become universal and their focus is aimed at outdoing one another to create a more iconic building to attract more people and host more events. This design treatise will focus on how to localise convention centre design to create a place for not only indoor experiences but outdoor experiences as well, to create a multifaceted design that will cater for convention centre activities as well as for its surrounding community, thus ensuring the creation of an urban catalyst that promotes the creation of a vibrant public gathering space. The research and process to achieve this is thus documented. The document consists of two distinct parts. The first part provides insight into the theoretical position taken which provides a lens through which all other research is viewed. The second comprises the design process rooted within the theoretical position that was established in Part 1. Together, the research as well as the design process will lead to a refined design outcome presented as a set of architectural drawings and a computerised model.
- Description
- Thesis (MA) -- Faculty of Engineering, the Built Environment, and Technology, 2020
- Format
- computer
- Format
- online resource
- Format
- application/pdf
- Format
- 1 online resource (96 pages)
- Format
- Publisher
- Nelson Mandela University
- Publisher
- Faculty of Engineering, the Built Environment, and Technology
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Nelson Mandela University
- Rights
- All Rights Reserved
- Rights
- Open Access
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