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Edges of Belonging: Designing for Everyday Exchange in Melusi
Humayra Akhalwaya
Supervisor: Jason Oberholster & Prof Carin Combrinck
Keywords: Co-Design, Informal Settlement Upgrade, Threshold Design, Street Typologies, Public Interest Design
2025
From Divide to Dignity: Bridging Mabopane through a Community & Makers Hub
Arthur Balodha Baleeta
Supervisor: Dr Jan Hugo
Keywords: Spatial Justice, ecological regeneration, social cohesion, craftsmanship, economic empowerment, circular economy
2025
The Jeppestown Healthcare Nexus: A Transit-Orientated Primary Healthcare Development
Mitchell Austin
Supervisor: Dr. Coralie van Reenen
Keywords: Primary Healthcare, Innovative Building Technologies, Transit-Orientated Development, Urbanisation, Accessibility
2025
Christine Boshoff
Supervisor: Dr Nico Botes
Keywords: Early Childhood Development Centre, Local vernacular, Pattern Language, Karoo vernacular, Adobe & Rammed Earth Technology
2025
Weaving Urban Belonging: Reimagining Urban Space for dignity and inclusivity through placemaking
Carol Tendai Chidzomba
Supervisor: Tariq Toffah
Keywords: Culture, Art, Craftsmanship, Afrocentric Placemaking, Circular economy, Inclusivity
2025
The Oyster Table: Architecture as the Intersection Between the Tides and Cultivation
Annette Elizabeth Engelbrecht
Supervisor: Ms M Strydom
Keywords: Seafood-Based Bio-Economies, Aquaculture, Blue Urbanism
2025
Hybitat
Verushka Govender
Supervisor: Marie Snyman & Calayde Davey
Keywords: circularity, water hyacinth, sustainability, decay, rejuvenation
2025
The Link: Shared Spaces, Shared Lives
Rameez Hajat
Supervisor: Dr. Dario Schoulund
Keywords: Urban Design, Community Engagement, Cultural Integration, Urban Regeneration, Social Cohesion
2025
The Shorehouse: Discovering the Story of a Shoreline
Jamison Simeon
Supervisor: Prof A. Barker
Keywords: Story of Place, Regenerative Design, Living Infrastructures, Change and Continuity
2025
Joubert Pierre Elwin
Supervisor: Dr. Jan Hugo
Keywords: Memory –Myth – Peace – Decay – Storytelling
2025
AgriTectonics: Bridging Informality with Small Scale Agriculture
Karmi Mulder
Supervisor: Prof Carin Combrinck & Jason Oberholzer
Keywords: Participatory Design, Continuous Productive Urban Landscape (CPUL), Design-for-Disassembly, Passive Climate Control, Informal Settlement Upgrading
2025
From Resilience to Transformation: Defining the Future of Quarry Road Informal Settlement
Grant Ross Manderson
Supervisor: Dr. Jan Hugo
Keywords: Informal settlement upgrading, climate change, resilience, flood mitigation, skills development.
2025
Social Housing Reimagined
Max Robinson
Supervisor: Christo van der Hoven
Keywords: Structural reuse, mass timber, social programmes, high rise design
2025
Michael Müller Lotter
Supervisor: Dr. Dario Schoulund
Keywords: Circular Economy, Foundry Design, Urban Regeneration, Informal Recyclers, Sustainable Industrial Architecture
2025
Beneath the Surface
Christiaan Mouton
Supervisor: Dr Jan Hugo
Keywords: Urban Layer, Skin to Space, Rehabilitation
2025
Pastoral Ecologies: A Nama-Centred Approach to Sustainable Tourism
Catherine Mary Muller
Supervisor: Abrie Vermeulen
Keywords: pastoralism, cultural preservation, sustainable tourism, ecological regeneration, conservation hub
2025
The Mountain Outpost
Lindman Petzer
Supervisor: Abrie Vermeulen & Cobus Bothma
Keywords: Wildfire Response, Search and Rescue, Visitor Centre, Table Mountain, Vredehoek Quarry, Ecological Conservation, Mass Timber Architecture.
Andrew Philpott
Supervisors: Marie Snyman
Keywords: Regenerative design, Bioeconomy, Cultural infrastructure, Form-based performance, Temporal art
Fluid Urbanism: Creating an Interconnected Urban Landscape Guided by Waterways
Alannah Power
Supervisor: Dr. Dario Schoulund
Keywords: Urban Streams, Daylighting, Regeneration, Sustainability, Global South
Palimpsest of Place: Research and Interpretation Centre of Archeology
Shanae Marais
Supervisors: Dr Nico Botes; Prof Chrisna du Plessis
Keywords: Archeology, Heritage Conservation, Sustainable Design, Bio-based Materials, Community Engagement
Reclaiming the Heartbeat: A New Vision for Marabastad
Shao-Fei Chiu
Supervisor: Dr. Dario Schouland
Keywords: Markets, Residency, integration, urban fabric, social cohesion, empowerment, resilience
Bandhan Vav
Shiveer Ramphal
Supervisor: Marie Snyman
Keywords: Heritage, Cultural Immersion, Coastal, Additive Manufacturing
Agency in Action: Co-Creating Community Infrastructure in Melusi
Sidney Badenhorst
Supervisors: Jason Oberholster; Prof. Carin Combrinck
Keywords: Participatory Design, Live Build, Spatial Justice, Incremental Development, Community Agency
Industrial Revelation: A Blacksmith Craftsman’s Cluster
Lara-Anne Strydom
Supervisor: Christo van der Hoven
Keywords: Circularity, Mass Engineered Timber, DfMAD, Craft, Rewilding
Edlulayo: Architecture of the Passing Moment
Richard Symons
Supervisors: Cobus Bothma; Abrie Vermeulen
Keywords: Temporality, Permance, Pilgrimage, Ritual, African-Initiated Church
Urban Threads: Weaving Regenerative Design and Climate Resilience into the Heart of Pretoria’s Market Spaces
Tlamelo NG Mojaphoko
Supervisor: Dr Jan Hugo
Keywords: Regenerative design, Place making, Allowance Theory, Public Spaces, Craft Market.
Adapt-Ed-ucation
Divan van der Merwe
Supervisor: Christo van der Hoven
Keywords: Mass Timber, Primary School Design, Educational Assistance, Improved Learning Conditions, Future Opportunity Orientated
Swartberg Voor
Daniël Arjen van Renssen
Supervisor: Prof. Arthur Barker
Keywords: Vernacular Architecture, Critical Regionalism, Karoo, Condition and Response, Agrarian Typology
Campus Commons
Burger Venter
Supervisors: Mr. Tariq Toffah; Dr. Jan Hugo
Keywords: Threshold, Upskilling, Informality, Public Interface, Spatial Integration
T.H.R.Y.V.E Community Wellness Centre
Ethan Everett Viljoen
Supervisor: Dr Jan Hugo
Interwoven Haven: Designing a Wellness Hub for Healing, Physical and Mental Health, Relational Wellbeing, and Connection with Nature
Lauranne Viviers
Supervisors: Jason Oberholster; Prof. Carin Combrinck
Keywords: Wellness Hub; Wellness Architecture; Relational Wellbeing; Biophilic Design; Nature-Based Healing; Public Interest Design.
Reformed in Refuge: Renewed through Memory, Minds and Making
Hanrich Zeelie
Supervisor: Christo van der Hoven
Keywords: Ecology, Craft, Heritage, Ephemaral, Integral Sustainability
Roots Beneath the Landscape: Ngodwana’s Unfurling Spine
Nakita Oberholzer
Supervisor: Dr Nico Botes & Prof Chrisna du Plessis
Keywords: Community Connection, Social Cohesion, Spatial Flexibility, Bio-based Materials, Regenerative Design
2025
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