Abstract
M.Tech. (Architectural Technology)
The architectural intervention proposes an urban
redevelopment along the mining belt of the city of
Johannesburg through the treatment of acid mine
drainage.
The design research includes a network of selected sites
located along the Johannesburgmining belt to address the
problem of acid mine drainage,as well as to provide
solutions for future urban environments.
The main solutions to eradicate the acid mine water
problem are infrastructural, which in most cases is
associatedwith inhumane environments. A design
question addressing the marriage between harsh
infrast ructure and humane environments is therefore
dealt with ,in an attempt to create a self-sustaining
architecture in which infrastructure can have an integrative
urban function for the future .
The dissertation aims to achive a design intervention that
will thread the traces of a mining century into this
contemporary African city, through an architecture that will
grow into the future of the ever-changing and continuously
emergent Johannesburg.