Environmental rehabilitation through architecture: an eco-social sustainable Hub for Durban CBD.
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2019
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Natural environments and eco-systems flourish on their own but man needs these environments in order
to survive, yet nature is being destroyed faster than ever. Unprecedented changes need to take place in
all parts of society in order to counteract the damage to the environment. The built environment plays
an important role in every individual’s life. It becomes an environment of its own, providing at a basic
level, our need for shelter and forms the basic building block from which cities emerge. Built form takes
precedent over natural environments as it creates economic income while nature happens on the
outskirts of the cities. Man moulds natural environments to suit the built environment in order to
maximise profit and create a world to serve mankind, yet natural ecosystems and commodities are
becoming exhausted, overused, depleted or extinct.
Man, nature and architecture form three separate entities but by exploring the single connections
between each: Man and nature; nature and architecture; and man and architecture, connections can be
made throughout and co-existence can form between the three providing a platform that eradicates
hierarchy and views each entity as an equal and important aspect towards fighting climate change.
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Masters Degree. University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban.