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A Paean to the Prayer Quarry: Memories and burial in the Old Malay Quarter, Bo-Kaap
Includes bibliographical references.
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2015
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| author | Soeker, Nuhaa |
| author2 | Coetzer, Nic |
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/13019 A Paean to the Prayer Quarry: Memories and burial in the Old Malay Quarter, Bo-Kaap Soeker, Nuhaa Coetzer, Nic Silverman, Melinda Architecture, Planning and Geomatics Includes bibliographical references. The Bo-Kaap is my landscape of memories, serving as a platform from which I can direct my story. It is a landscape that gives me a sense of belonging and provides me with spatial reference points to anchor my memories. The Bo-Kaap was my place of childhood encounters and is still my landscape of identity. The approach to the dissertation design is inspired by a keen personal interest In uncovering and creating a narrative of the open public places within the Old Malay Quarter of the Bo-Kaap, Cape Town; specifically the Prayer Quarry. It is the power of this unknown that needs to be augmented and captured. The dissertation design strives to re- create and re-instill a sense of public place within the Prayer Quarry. This idea of re-presencing absence is envisioned through a programme that resists the loss of memory by proposing a cemetery for the local Muslim Bo-Kaap community which serves as an acclamation to the Cape Malay social practices and cultural traditions. The design engages with the historical values of the site and establishes itself as a new gathering place within the Old Malay Quarter that pays tribute to the significance of the Prayer Quarry as one of the previously popular public places within the Bo- Kaap; A Paean to the Prayer Quarry. 2015-05-28T12:26:48Z 2015-05-28T12:26:48Z 2014 Master Thesis Masters Master of Architecture http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13019 eng application/pdf School of Architecture, Planning and Geomatics Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment University of Cape Town |
| spellingShingle | Architecture, Planning and Geomatics Soeker, Nuhaa A Paean to the Prayer Quarry: Memories and burial in the Old Malay Quarter, Bo-Kaap |
| thesis_degree_str | Master's |
| title | A Paean to the Prayer Quarry: Memories and burial in the Old Malay Quarter, Bo-Kaap |
| title_full | A Paean to the Prayer Quarry: Memories and burial in the Old Malay Quarter, Bo-Kaap |
| title_fullStr | A Paean to the Prayer Quarry: Memories and burial in the Old Malay Quarter, Bo-Kaap |
| title_full_unstemmed | A Paean to the Prayer Quarry: Memories and burial in the Old Malay Quarter, Bo-Kaap |
| title_short | A Paean to the Prayer Quarry: Memories and burial in the Old Malay Quarter, Bo-Kaap |
| title_sort | paean to the prayer quarry memories and burial in the old malay quarter bo kaap |
| topic | Architecture, Planning and Geomatics |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13019 |
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