Healing environments : architecture as therapy at the Mowbray Town Hall site

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dc.contributor.advisorCoetzer, Nicen_ZA
dc.contributor.advisorSilverman, Melindaen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorRamontsho, Lucky Thapeloen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2015-06-29T07:50:26Z
dc.date.available2015-06-29T07:50:26Z
dc.date.issued2014en_ZA
dc.descriptionIncludes bibliographical references.en_ZA
dc.description.abstractMy design dissertation project is an investigation of Architecture as Therapy - a means with which to heal the environment (including peoples) as well as re-integrate them, especially those who have been marginalized. The design utilizes place-making design elements that would encourage their participation, by borrowing good ideas and examples from existing work/ projects. The project is focused on three main important key factors: * Fixing a site (through a strategic choice of site as urban rather than sub-urban). * Giving back the space to the people especially those who have been marginalized. * Proposing an architectural typology that seeks to fix both the site and people. This dissertation proposes an alternative; architecture as therapy, with the programme of a half way home to explore how architecture might reinvigorate Mowbray Town Hall site and operate with respect to pre-discharged patients / out patients from Valkenburg the state’s psychiatric hospital nearby Observatory. The building is not a psychiatric Centre such as Valkenburg psychiatric hospital but rather promote the idea of therapy, a means with which to heal urban environments and re-integrate people. Architecture as therapy provides the conceptual grounding for the project. The purpose of the work is not only focused on patients or to challenge notions of therapy processes and healthcare facilities but to address the on going ill-treatment of public urban spaces due to negative human behavior and also encourage positive human participation within their environments. Architecture as therapy suggests the potential to generate a new architectural typology with which the design of its spaces and elements within an urban public environment produce therapy and positive treatment of urban public spaces. Both the people and site will receive holistic treatment with a view to promoting recovery.en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationRamontsho, L. T. (2014). <i>Healing environments : architecture as therapy at the Mowbray Town Hall site</i>. (Thesis). University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Engineering & the Built Environment ,School of Architecture, Planning and Geomatics. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13161en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationRamontsho, Lucky Thapelo. <i>"Healing environments : architecture as therapy at the Mowbray Town Hall site."</i> Thesis., University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Engineering & the Built Environment ,School of Architecture, Planning and Geomatics, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13161en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationRamontsho, L. 2014. Healing environments : architecture as therapy at the Mowbray Town Hall site. University of Cape Town.en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Ramontsho, Lucky Thapelo AB - My design dissertation project is an investigation of Architecture as Therapy - a means with which to heal the environment (including peoples) as well as re-integrate them, especially those who have been marginalized. The design utilizes place-making design elements that would encourage their participation, by borrowing good ideas and examples from existing work/ projects. The project is focused on three main important key factors: * Fixing a site (through a strategic choice of site as urban rather than sub-urban). * Giving back the space to the people especially those who have been marginalized. * Proposing an architectural typology that seeks to fix both the site and people. This dissertation proposes an alternative; architecture as therapy, with the programme of a half way home to explore how architecture might reinvigorate Mowbray Town Hall site and operate with respect to pre-discharged patients / out patients from Valkenburg the state’s psychiatric hospital nearby Observatory. The building is not a psychiatric Centre such as Valkenburg psychiatric hospital but rather promote the idea of therapy, a means with which to heal urban environments and re-integrate people. Architecture as therapy provides the conceptual grounding for the project. The purpose of the work is not only focused on patients or to challenge notions of therapy processes and healthcare facilities but to address the on going ill-treatment of public urban spaces due to negative human behavior and also encourage positive human participation within their environments. Architecture as therapy suggests the potential to generate a new architectural typology with which the design of its spaces and elements within an urban public environment produce therapy and positive treatment of urban public spaces. Both the people and site will receive holistic treatment with a view to promoting recovery. DA - 2014 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2014 T1 - Healing environments : architecture as therapy at the Mowbray Town Hall site TI - Healing environments : architecture as therapy at the Mowbray Town Hall site UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13161 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/13161
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationRamontsho LT. Healing environments : architecture as therapy at the Mowbray Town Hall site. [Thesis]. University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Engineering & the Built Environment ,School of Architecture, Planning and Geomatics, 2014 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13161en_ZA
dc.language.isoengen_ZA
dc.publisher.departmentSchool of Architecture, Planning and Geomaticsen_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Engineering and the Built Environment
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.subject.otherArchitectureen_ZA
dc.titleHealing environments : architecture as therapy at the Mowbray Town Hall siteen_ZA
dc.typeMaster Thesis
dc.type.qualificationlevelMasters
dc.type.qualificationnameMArch (Professional)en_ZA
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