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Document Type

Master's Dissertation

Author

Alkayyali, Ahmed

URN

etd-11252011-112216

Document Title

Liminal public infrastructure : a typology of public space for everyday performances

Degree

MArch(Prof)

Department

Architecture

Supervisor

Advisor Name	Title
Mr R Van Rensburg	Committee Chair

Keywords

stairs
inhabitable surface
quotidian
everyday
liminal space
public space

Date

2012-04-25

Availability

unrestricted

Abstract

Every day the city plays out its spectacle unnoticed. This quotidian context is one which is full of complexity, spontaneity and possibility. It is here that architecture can engage with both the city and its user, space and experience; challenging conventional architectural typologies. It is within public space, that architecture can both enhance and celebrate the everyday. This project investigates all of these aspects within the city of Pretoria and more specifically along Van der Walt Street, focusing on the urban cavity at Munitoria.
Surveillance is conceptually used to experience this spectacle, on multiple levels of enterpretation, where the architecture is reduced to support both the concept of surveillance and its experience.

Copyright 2011, University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria.

Please cite as follows:

Alkayyali, A 2011, Liminal public infrastructure : a typology of public space for everyday performances, MArch(Prof) dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd < http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-11252011-112216 / >

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