Smit, PetriaSmit, JanRaubenheimer, HeinLepesa, Nothembinkosi2024-05-072024-05-072022http://hdl.handle.net/11660/12488Dissertation (M.Arch. (Architecture))--University of the Free State, 2022This dissertation delves into the relationship between architecture and narrative meaning the way a medium tells a story. Architecture being both a physical and spatial medium it presents a unique opportunity for the embodiment of narrative. The narrative in question is about an environment in relation to people and the phenomenology of belonging. The challenge is finding the appropriate mediator that can concisely tell the narrative about the phenomenon for its meaning to be understood and addressed through architectural means. The discovery of a medium or a narrator bears importance in two-fold. Firstly, a narrator provides access to information, i.e., a story that is representative of a community of people that actively preserve traditions and the significance that it has on their existence, therefore a narrator acts as a retail [relate or repeat (a story) in detail] for the discourse. Secondly, there is an art to storytelling that may import services to the dissertation, unlike the practice of investigation, which is journalistic in nature, storytelling presents a nuanced quality that involves us in understanding the magnitude of matters.enDissertationUniversity of the Free State