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Item Open Access Architecture on paper: a study on the significance of imaginary architectural space(University of the Free State, 1998) Bitzer, Martie; Smit, Jan D.๐๐ฏ๐๐๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ ๐ป๐ผ๐ ๐ฎ๐๐ฎ๐ถ๐น๐ฎ๐ฏ๐น๐ฒItem Open Access Into the blue: a handpainting blue China ceramics studio(University of the Free State, 2023) van der Rijst, Michelle; Smit, Jan; Smit, Petria; Bitzer, Martie; Raubenheimer, HeinThe Victoria and Alfred Waterfront (V&A Waterfront) Development in Cape Town is transforming the port into a playground. With the notion of globalisation and replicating international waterfront-scapes, the V&AW is at risk of becoming a creative destruction. ๐๐ฐ๐ธ ๐ค๐ข๐ฏ ๐ข ๐ฑ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ญ๐ฐ๐จ๐ช๐ค๐ข๐ญ ๐ข๐ฑ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ค๐ช๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ฃ๐ญ๐ถ๐ฆ ๐ค๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐ข ๐ค๐ฆ๐ณ๐ข๐ฎ๐ช๐ค๐ด ๐ช๐ฏ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฎ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ณ๐ค๐ฉ๐ช๐ต๐ฆ๐ค๐ต๐ถ๐ณ๐ข๐ญ ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ด๐ช๐ง๐ช๐ค๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ข ๐ค๐ฐ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ช๐ข๐ญ ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ช๐ต๐ข๐จ๐ฆ ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ด๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฃ๐ญ๐ฆ, ๐ฃ๐บ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ด๐ช๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ฃ๐ช๐ต๐ถ๐ข๐ญ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฎ๐ข๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ๐ช๐ข๐ญ ๐ฆ๐น๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ช๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ค๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ณ๐ข๐ฏ๐ด๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฎ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ค๐ญ๐ข๐บ ๐ช๐ฏ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ค๐ฆ๐ณ๐ข๐ฎ๐ช๐ค๐ด, ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฃ๐บ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ช๐ฏ๐ต๐ฆ๐จ๐ณ๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ต๐ณ๐ข๐ฅ๐ช๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ข๐ญ ๐ช๐ฏ๐ต๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ต๐ธ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ค๐ถ๐ญ๐ต๐ถ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ต๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ข๐ณ๐บ ๐ต๐ฆ๐ค๐ฉ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ญ๐ฐ๐จ๐บ ๐ช๐ฏ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฌ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ณ๐ฃ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐๐ข๐ฑ๐ฆ ๐๐ฐ๐ธ๐ฏ? The project proposes a hand-painting, blue china studio as an adaptive reuse of the ensemble of heritage and existing synchrolift buildings within the Marina District of the V&AW. Viewing craft as a method of purposeful play, the project will aim to condense the artistic potential within the ceramics-making process while preserving elements of its local habitual and material engagement. These phenomenological theories will be used to support the design decisions and contextual orientation to arrive at an appropriate architectural response to the historically rich environment of the Victoria and Alfred Waterfront. Consequently, the theoretical lens will add layers of complexity to the heritage site and the proposed design becomes inseparably moulded into the cultural fabric, regenerating the Victoria and Alfred Waterfront in Cape Town. The document explores contextual analysis, precedent analysis, and theoretical framework to inform the design development and technical resolution. Ultimately, the thesis dissertation will present a contemporary interpretation of craft in urban manufacturing and adaptive reuse projects.Item Open Access Rescripting the permanence of Ramkraal: a skills development centre within the historic ruins of the Ramkraal prison for the community of Batho(University of the Free State, 2023) Coetzer, Leon; Smit, Jan; Smit, Petria; Bitzer, Martie; Auret, HendrikConservation and adaptive reuse projects help to reactivate long-forgotten places and offer a revived space for the growth of the next generation of South Africans. The question is: How can a community-catalysed skills development centre in-between Batho and the Bloemfontein CBD be sensitively integrated and rescripted within a ruin โ the Historic Ramkraal Prison in Bloemfontein โ thereby inverting the established power structure by activating learning settings aimed at self-liberation? When confronted with culturally significant and heritage-protected architecture, the usual response is to encompass it in time and turn it into a museum rather than analysing the immediate context and creating a place for growth for communities and people who need it. The proposed design offers a place of self-liberation while both retaining the existing structural fabric and sensitively adjoining new structures to these, in order to rescript established orders and architectural character. The study focuses on adaptive reuse of culturally significant heritage buildings and how the new can creatively respond to the old. After several failed attempts to preserve the Prison complex โ all focusing on preserving the historic physical remains of the ensemble โ the proposed design offers a community-centred solution where the preservation of heritage resources as historical beacons ultimately depends on the vitality of surrounding communities.Item Open Access Spectral flesh remembrance: an inverted monument and foundry embedded in the decommissioned Pelindaba nuclear weapons site(University of the Free State, 2023) Wood, Arran; Smit, Jan.; Smit, Petria; Bitzer, Martie; Auret, HendrikThe Angola-South African War left extensive scars and remains a raw place in the lives of many South Africans. Yet it has become a kind of suppressed memory that is hard to grapple with in the post-democratic reality, and the majority of South Africans choose to conveniently overlook the consequences of this conflict. The memory and memorialisation of the war has become a shrouded spectre. One of the most obscured facets of the war was the fact that South Africa managed to construct nuclear weapons, and (even more astoundingly) became the first nation to voluntarily decommission their nuclear arsenal. In the wake of ghost-like memories of the past, the question arises: ๐๐ฐ๐ธ ๐ค๐ข๐ฏ ๐ข ๐ด๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ค๐ต๐ณ๐ข๐ญ ๐ข๐ณ๐ค๐ฉ๐ช๐ต๐ฆ๐ค๐ต๐ถ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ญ๐ฅ ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ด๐ด๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฆ๐น๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ช๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ค๐ฆ๐ด ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ด๐ฆ ๐ฅ๐ช๐ด๐ค๐ข๐ณ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ฎ๐ข๐ค๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ด๐ฐ๐ถ๐ญ๐ด ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ด๐ฐ๐ถ๐ญ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ด๐ด ๐ฎ๐ข๐ค๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ด ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต๐ข๐ฏ๐จ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ฃ๐ด๐ค๐ถ๐ณ๐ข๐ฏ๐ต๐ช๐ด๐ต ๐ฎ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ด๐ฆ๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ฃ๐ช๐ณ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฏ๐ถ๐ค๐ญ๐ฆ๐ข๐ณ ๐ธ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ด ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฐ๐จ๐ณ๐ข๐ฎ๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ต ๐๐ฆ๐ญ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ข๐ฃ๐ข ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ต๐ฆ๐น๐ต ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐๐ข๐ณ? Those in power, too, choose to forget the haunting effects in the hearts of those conscripted into the war and the suffering enforced by it. The manifestation of this amnesia-like state comes in the form of the nuclear weapons site, rusting and forgotten. Through a symbolic repurposing of decommissioned firearms in a foundry and the remembrance of spectres from the site in an inverted monument, a design is proposed as a means to reveal the forgotten and censored. The exposure of restricted historical documentation is part of the outcome of this research; to find what is still prevailing of something that no longer officially exists and document the remaining structures. Regarding placing architecture and conflict in context, special care is taken in analysing precedent studies of the built form as well as structural theory of โthe form in conflictโ with a morphology responding to place as much as process. The proposed architecture of structure, relating to spectral remembrances of the flesh, attempts to explore the role architecture can play as a mediator and reminder of forgotten conflicts.