- Title
- The design of a performing Arts Centre at Makana’s Kop, in Makhanda
- Creator
- Zitumane, Siphosethu Asanda
- Subject
- Centers for the performing arts -- South Africa -- Makhanda
- Subject
- Art centers -- South Africa -- Makhanda -- Designs and plans
- Date Issued
- 2021-12
- Date
- 2021-12
- Type
- Master's theses
- Type
- text
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/${Handle}
- Identifier
- vital:59921
- Description
- Nearly three decades into democracy, the South African landscape is still embed - ded with the ideologies and systems of apartheid. Separateness has come to de - fine its cartography, drawing clear lines between races. To bridge the racial divide and reconstruct the national identity, the South African government adopted the Rainbow Nation as its brand. This branding did little to address the systemic racism ingrained into its society and landscape. This treatise identifies the limits of the rainbow nation, through an investigation of the intersections between memory, identity, and place. It identifies the imbalance in the expression of certain narratives as barrier in the progression of South Africa’s nation building initiative. Attempting to find a resolution, it offers the design of a performing arts center on Makana’s Kop, Makhanda as a starting point. This archi - tectural endeavor aims to express the oppressed narratives and memories of the Makhandan community. Through exploring how these issues play out in Makhanda, Makana’s Kop is iden - tified as an appropriate site for the architectural manifestation of this treatise. The significance of the site, and its relationship with other monumental structures in this city make it a suitable place for the design of a building of this nature. The inves - tigation is led to examine the architectural and theoretical principles that will ad - opted to aid in making this a successful architectural resolution to the issues iden - tified; which are firstly the need for an architecture to symbolize democracy and the new South African Identity and secondly the need for a container for culture and art for the Makana’s Kop community. The treatise, and thus the the endeavor, is concluded with a presentation and analysis of the final architectural product and the design and technical strategies that were implemented.
- Description
- Thesis (MArch (Professional) -- Faculty of Engineering, the Built Environment and Technology ,School of Architecture 2022
- Format
- computer
- Format
- online resource
- Format
- application/pdf
- Format
- 1 online resource (101 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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