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Hinterland : the imaginative reanimation of Brixton cemetery's nostalgic, remnant reality through the mechanization of its inherent narrative of escape
Mini Dissertation MArch (Prof)--University of Pretoria, 2018.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/63663 Hinterland : the imaginative reanimation of Brixton cemetery's nostalgic, remnant reality through the mechanization of its inherent narrative of escape Barker, A.A.J. (Arthur Adrian Johnson) swart.ps@gmail.com Pienaar, Marguerite Swart, Pieter Heritage Nostalgia Reanimation Cemetery UCTD Engineering, built environment and information technology theses SDG-04 Engineering, built environment and information technology theses SDG-11 Mini Dissertation MArch (Prof)--University of Pretoria, 2018. Artificiality, as a manifestation of the pursuit of escape, saturates the city and landscapes of Johannesburg. It is the narrative from which the city spawned, constructs and relentlessly perpetuates itself. This first artificial landscape is the materialization of escape, the synthetic, nostalgic reproduction of the known. Brixton cemetery is nostalgic remnant existing in Johannesburg. Looming in a state suspended animation, it is an embodiment of the amnesic material and urban blight which pervades the city, created from desire to escape. The nostalgic artificiality inherent in this cemetery (produced by the desire to escape), in dire need of intervention, holds the material which unlocks the method for its reanimation. The project investigates how architecture, as a second artificial landscape, can occupy the amnesic gap inherent in the nostalgic remnant to reanimate the conditions present in the cemetery and the nostalgic forest. This is accomplished through an architectural insertion which appropriates the physical, nostalgic, metaphysical and mythological layers of escape embodied in the cemetery as the strategy for intervention. The project further investigates a new burial typology which functions by either the prevention or acceptance of the inevitable amnesic condition caused by memorialization. A Bioluminescent Conservatory is proposed to reanimate the forest through the artificiality of escape, while the addition of a columbarium serves to expand and reoccupy the cemetery. Conceptually, the projects investigates how the narrative of escape can further be absorbed into the architecture through the artificiality inherent in the cemetery’s material. The idea of negative as an artificial reproduction is adopted as a conceptual strategy for intervention and articulation of the architecture. The negative as conceptual framework is explored through the artistic work of Christian Boltanski who’s work painfully reveals the treachery of memory and memorialization, but also finally signifies the potentiality inherent in this amnesic inevitability to redeem, reoccupy and recreate from this gap. The cemetery and forest are reanimated by disconfiguring the mechanism of escape and the conditions which it instilled in the cemetery. mi2025 Architecture MArch (Prof) Unrestricted SDG-04: Quality education SDG-11: Sustainable cities and communities 2018-01-22T12:08:12Z 2018-01-22T12:08:12Z 2018 2018 Mini Dissertation Swart, P 2018, Hinterland : the imaginative reanimation of Brixton cemetery's nostalgic, remnant reality through the mechanization of its inherent narrative of escape, MArch (Prof) Mini Dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/63663> A2018 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/63663 en © 2018 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | Heritage Nostalgia Reanimation Cemetery UCTD Engineering, built environment and information technology theses SDG-04 Engineering, built environment and information technology theses SDG-11 Hinterland : the imaginative reanimation of Brixton cemetery's nostalgic, remnant reality through the mechanization of its inherent narrative of escape |
| title | Hinterland : the imaginative reanimation of Brixton cemetery's nostalgic, remnant reality through the mechanization of its inherent narrative of escape |
| title_full | Hinterland : the imaginative reanimation of Brixton cemetery's nostalgic, remnant reality through the mechanization of its inherent narrative of escape |
| title_fullStr | Hinterland : the imaginative reanimation of Brixton cemetery's nostalgic, remnant reality through the mechanization of its inherent narrative of escape |
| title_full_unstemmed | Hinterland : the imaginative reanimation of Brixton cemetery's nostalgic, remnant reality through the mechanization of its inherent narrative of escape |
| title_short | Hinterland : the imaginative reanimation of Brixton cemetery's nostalgic, remnant reality through the mechanization of its inherent narrative of escape |
| title_sort | hinterland the imaginative reanimation of brixton cemetery s nostalgic remnant reality through the mechanization of its inherent narrative of escape |
| topic | Heritage Nostalgia Reanimation Cemetery UCTD Engineering, built environment and information technology theses SDG-04 Engineering, built environment and information technology theses SDG-11 |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/63663 |