- Title
- Working in the city: the design of a vehicle technology research centre for Volkswagen SA in the Nelson Mandela Metropole
- Creator
- Danev, Anton V
- Subject
- Volkswagen of South Africa (Firm)
- Subject
- Research institutes -- South Africa -- Port Elizabeth -- Designs and plans
- Subject
- Motor vehicle industry -- South Africa -- Port Elizabeth
- Date Issued
- 2007
- Date
- 2007
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- M.Arcitecture
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10948/52834
- Identifier
- vital:44235
- Description
- Volkswagen AG is the second largest vehicle manufacturer worldwide with a factory plant located in the Nelson Mandela Metropole. Major part of their [technological] research has in the last 10 years shifted towards a sustainability outlook along a environmentally friendly end-user products approach. A great market is emerging where environmentally sensitive vehicles and equipment are at the forefront of technological development. Volkswagen currently has a limited number of Vehicle Technology Research facilities worldwide and is looking to establish firm positions locally, in line with its company ethics of sustainability and energy consciousness. Part of this initiative is to locate into the CBD of Port Elizabeth aiming to revitalise derelict [inner-city] urban space and promote environmentally sensitive development. Consequently this thesis seeks to explore the possibility of introducing a ( technology) research facility and office space, as part of a mixed-use development, into Port Elizabeth’s inner city and investigate the architectural challenges thereof.
- Format
- 123 leaves
- Format
- Publisher
- Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
- Publisher
- Faculty of Arts
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Nelson Mandela University
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