- Title
- The design of a student-resource centre in Central, Port Elizabeth
- Creator
- Harmse, Kim
- Subject
- Student unions -- South Africa -- Port Elizabeth -- Designs and plans Architecture -- Designs and plans
- Date Issued
- 2017
- Date
- 2017
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- MArch
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10948/39065
- Identifier
- vital:35032
- Description
- This study investigates the making of a Student-Resource Centre in Central, Port Elizabeth. The project evolved from the situation in Central, where there is an increase in the student demographic, due to the increase in registered students at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (NMMU). This has resulted in a shortage of student housing on campus; and therefore many students are living in the inner city where housing is more affordable but transport to campus is still accessible. These students are decentralised from the main University Campus; and they do not share the same 24-hour access to NMMU facilities, as do those living on-campus, or in Summerstrand. This treatise proposes a student resource centre within Central, located near the highest density of students, to provide study facilities, off-campus student health services, off-campus computer facil-ities, student-connection spaces, as well as a link to the broader community through student-oriented retail/commercial facilities, such as printing/copy centres, food markets, laundry facilities et al., as well as providing additional student accommoda¬tion in the form of student flats. The primary design aim of this treatise, is to design a student resource centre that provides the decen¬tralised students in the inner city with equal access to the same standard of facilities as the students that reside on-campus and within the more expen¬sive area of Summerstrand, through the study and implementation of contemporary learning space theories that are relevant to the 21st Century Stu¬dent. Qualitative research methodologies were used, using both primary and secondary sources, in the methods, as laid out herein.
- Format
- 132 leaves
- Format
- Publisher
- Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
- Publisher
- Faculty of Arts
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
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