- Title
- The design of an adult skills development centre in Hillbrow, Johannesburg, Gauteng
- Creator
- Lombard, Danielle
- Subject
- Community centers -- Designs and plans Community centers -- Gauteng -- Johannesburg -- Hillbrow --Designs and plans
- Date Issued
- 2017
- Date
- 2017
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- MA
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10948/38772
- Identifier
- vital:34964
- Description
- This treatise is concerned with the design of an Adult Skills Development Centre in Hillbrow, Johannesburg. The project stems from a personal perception with an understanding of the city as a “place of community” and a perceived need to provide accessible adult education for previously disadvantage communities. The methodology employed in this study is qualitative in nature and the research is concerned with reaching some understanding of community and public space in city structure. This study identifies the broken link in the urban context of Johannesburg, which lacks welldefined public spaces. It, therefore, supports the need for an extension of the existing urban fabric by means of educational and community facilities and well-integrated and connected public spaces. The building within the city of Johannesburg will aim to create a sense of ‘place’ and identity within a multi-cultural society what might unlock the potential for future development in the Inner City. The Skills Development Centre could also act as a social catalyst for further development by activating the most pedestrianized routes along Klein Street and Pretoria Street which will strengthen the connection of the inner city. The difficulty of insensitively placing a new contemporary building into a defined urban context with a historical architectural fabric, was explored through acquiring a critical understanding of both the broader context of Johannesburg and the Inner City as well as its immediate surroundings. This was resolved in the development of a design that acknowledges both place and programme within, the past and present, in a coherent well defined architectural expression.
- Format
- ix, 235 leaves
- Format
- Publisher
- Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
- Publisher
- Faculty of Arts
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
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