- Title
- The design of a maritime museum in the Durban harbour
- Creator
- Holgate, Richard
- Subject
- Museum architecture -- South Africa -- Durban -- Designs and plans Naval museums -- South Africa -- Darban -- Designs and plans
- Date Issued
- 2016
- Date
- 2016
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- MA
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10948/19916
- Identifier
- vital:29005
- Description
- This treatise focuses on the design of a maritime museum for Durban’s harbour. The building is concerned with the preservation of three vessels, namely the “JR More”, the “SAS Durban”, and the “Ulundi” that are currently stationed at the existing museum. The purpose of the treatise is to investigate the issues and processes involved in the design of a maritime museum in Durban. The research begins with an analysis of the typology in order to better understand the spatial and physical nature of a maritime museum. A set of architectural issues are identified in response to which an appropriate architectural design is proposed. Four particular precedents are investigated for which the spatial make up of each buildings is divided into categories, and the relationships between these are analyzed. The physical nature of the buildings is established, resulting in the identification of an appropriate architectural language. Analysis of the precedents leads to site selection criteria which are used to select an appropriate site from these possibilities. The nature of site is then investigated. A set of informants and constraints are developed by identifying the issues of site. The structuring elements of site are analysed individually and precedents are studied to establish a response to these issues. An architectural language that is site specific is then developed by investigating the nature of industrial harbours. With an understanding of the spatial and physical make up of the typology paired with responses to the specific issues of site, a maritime museum for Durban’s harbour is designed.
- Format
- ix, 198 leaves
- Format
- Publisher
- Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
- Publisher
- Faculty of Arts
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
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