- Title
- The design of a boxing academy and event arena in Mdantsane, Eastern Cape
- Creator
- McGregor, David
- Subject
- Physical fitness centers -- Design and Plans Sport facilities -- South Africa -- Mdantsane -- Designs and Plans Recreation centers -- South Africa -- Mdantsane
- Date Issued
- 2018
- Date
- 2018
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- M Arch
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10948/23812
- Identifier
- vital:30622
- Description
- This treatise is preoccupied with Mdantsane as a particular place and community, with Mdantsane’s communal identity centred around their phenomenal boxing culture. This treatise investigates how public architecture can be constructed to acknowledge and promote a community’s culture and identity, and ultimately engender a sense of place within a settlement. To this end, architectural theories concerning a sense of place will be scrutinised, and the correlations between architecture and community, culture and identity will be investigated in order to extrapolate design principles and strategies that will assist in informing the design proposal.Mdantsane, a large informal settlement in the Eastern Cape, has been bestowed with the title of the South African ‘Mecca of Boxing’, having produced 1/3 of all international champions originating from South Africa. however, the ‘Mecca of Boxing’ has no ‘home’ in the community. The dilapidated boxing gyms operate as individual entities, and there is no explicit boxing arena in the community, rendering Mdantsane ineligible to host national and provincial boxing tournaments. Furthermore, without available quality training facilities in the Eastern Cape, the promising talent is relocating elsewhere.This treatise proposes the design of a Boxing Arena and Academy in the Central Business District of Mdantsane, in the Eastern Cape. In order to understand the nature of an arena and sporting academy, pertinent precedent studies were undertaken to deduce principal findings about the nature of the building typology. The principle aim of the architecture is to bring the Arena back to the public, constructed as a place for the community to gather and celebrate their cultural identity. Furthermore, the architecture seeks to overcome the ‘placelessness’ of the typical arena typology, through the management of an architecture that responds to the particular contextual conditions of the community.
- Format
- 150 pages. :illustrations (chiefly color), maps, plans
- Format
- Publisher
- Nelson Mandela University
- Publisher
- Faculty of Arts
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Nelson Mandela University
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