Heirloom between the tracks— Revealing hybrid landscapes of rest and reflection at Langlaagte Cemetery

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dc.contributor.authorSkudder, Emma Catherine
dc.contributor.supervisorHart, Brendan
dc.date.accessioned2024-07-04T16:39:32Z
dc.date.available2024-07-04T16:39:32Z
dc.date.issued2024-02
dc.descriptionA research report submitted to the Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, School of Architecture & Planning, in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Architecture (Professional) in 2024.
dc.description.abstractSituated in a sea of grass alongside the Johannesburg railway lines, lie rows of graves lost in an overgrown landscape. Some marked, some unmarked, all invisible to the passer-by. This landscape is rooted between multi-cultural communities with a heritage dating back to the origins of Johannesburg. Paarlshoop, Langlaagte-North, Mayfair-West and Brixton border its edges, which establishes the core of this research— the site. To understand the intricacies of the site, is to understand the project intent. Where there are graves, there is abandoned heritage, lost memory and forgotten stories. Where there are railway buildings, there is existing community claim to be enriched. Where there are grasses, shrubbery, and treelines there is connection to agricultural pasts. Heirloom between the tracks, bridges the urban lifeways of the site with a heritage-focussed centre weaving together old and new, facilitating the surrounding community and providing a space for memory. With a contextual, history-driven, and postcolonial lens, the beacon of this thesis was using methods of remembrance, acknowledging the site’s unavoidable histories, tying back into the surrounding community through revealing, engaging, and re-inscribing. Spaces of commemoration and recreational landscapes, stitch new narratives onto the site for a multifunctional, small-scale heritage hub. This hub ties together archiving, storytelling and making spaces, with spaces of skills-development and contextually functional service provision. By establishing this site-centred facility, micro-industry, heritage, and identity are re-rooted and fed back into its surrounds, nurturing the existing conditions upon which they reside, establishing an architectural tapestry, a quilt, an heirloom.
dc.description.submitterMM2024
dc.facultyFaculty of Engineering and the Built Environment
dc.identifier.citationSkudder, Emma Catherine. (2024). Heirloom between the tracks— Revealing hybrid landscapes of rest and reflection at Langlaagte Cemetery. [Master's dissertation, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg]. WIReDSpace. https://hdl.handle.net/10539/38853
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10539/38853
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherUniversity of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
dc.rights©2024 University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
dc.rights.holderUniversity of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
dc.schoolSchool of Architecture and Planning
dc.subjectCemetery
dc.subjectJohannesburg railways
dc.subjectJohannesburg
dc.subjectLanglaagte
dc.subjectLandscape
dc.subjectArchitecture
dc.subjectPaarlshoop
dc.subjectMayfair-West
dc.subjectBrixton
dc.subjectUCTD
dc.subject.otherSDG-9: Industry, innovation and infrastructure
dc.titleHeirloom between the tracks— Revealing hybrid landscapes of rest and reflection at Langlaagte Cemetery
dc.typeDissertation
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