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ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN [SIX]

 

[URBAN SWIMMING] THE DESIGN OF A PUBLIC SWIMMING POOL FOR PRETORIA CENTRAL

 

[2014] According to Soichiro Fukutake (2011:26): “City people strive to attain happiness in the name of ‘self-actualisation,’ but they are ultimately concerned only with their own happiness, and in competing to find it they become fraught with frustration and worry. This is because human beings can never be truly happy unless they are part of a happy community.”

 

The success of any city is dependent on a mixture of residential, commercial and social spaces and the established links between these areas. Each city dweller requires a set of stimulants - if these spaces are offered and accessible, the city dwellers could embrace the city as their ‘outside room’.

 

RATIONALE

 The city framework is upgrading more rapidly with residential and commercial units, than with social and public spaces.

 

 The Tshwane 2055 Proposal includes a ‘Musanda’ walkway that would sit around the Pretoria CBD.

 

 During the rainy season the Aapies River water level fluctuates unexpectedly and suddenly.