Architect and Builder Magazine South Africa May/June 2014 | Page 80

TARRYN MICHAEL
UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND
Tarryn Michael’s thesis is entitled Party Sanctuary. She says Boksburg’s
landscape is home to many left-over, forgotten and wasteful spaces which offer
no return. She has explored the elusive landscapes, and suggests that nature
should return.
In her research, she has also explored the theory of ‘liminality’ to understand the notions related
to event. The three narratives, within this dissertation, that marry this theory are: the ‘cloud’ (club),
the ‘wetland’ and the ‘landscape’.
Michael questions whether the youth culture of Johannesburg in an understated city on the East
Rand of Gauteng hosts a public space that caters for diffe