Story 3: Inverse Model
The walls of the post-Apartheid era perpetually thickened and merged into bigger ones (as in the Medieval Scenario); security measures multiplied to deter the proliferation of crime. Out of despair and mistrust of others, individuals started to migrate into ‘tribal’ enclaves: there were enclaves for the English, Afrikaaners, Jews, southern Europeans, Chinese, Indians, Zulus, Xhosas, et cetera. These large enclaves of tribal concentrations were like the artificial island of Deshima near Nagasaki (the only place in Japan to which foreign traders were admitted). (map 1)
For a long period of time, the area outside these large enclaves was overgrown by nature. Wild animals wandered around freely. The large enclaves themselves, charged with nostalgia, exaggerated their own identity, their fear of the present and uncertainty about the future, which led to an escalation of historicizing architecture. The theme park, with its allusion to safety and moral rectitude, was the unconscious architectural strategy whereby an unpleasant context could be psychologically denied. (map 2)
Overfamiliar with the boredom of life in the enclaves and the unnecessary thickness of the walls, many youngsters began to abandon their parents’ ideologies and prejudices and left the enclaves. They broke radically with the excessive nostalgia. The descendants of the former Haves and Have-nots pour all their talent and energy into the recovery of their society. Architecture is once again the instrument for creating this beautiful future. A new landscape arises. (map 3)
In their future city, the large enclaves are preserved as a reminder of post-Apartheid segregation. They are renamed the ‘Cemeteries of Prejudice and Paranoia’. Outside the cemeteries is the new city. (map 4)
The walls of the post-Apartheid era perpetually thickened and merged into bigger ones (as in the Medieval Scenario); security measures multiplied to deter the proliferation of crime. Out of despair and mistrust of others, individuals started to migrate into ‘tribal’ enclaves: there were enclaves for the English, Afrikaaners, Jews, southern Europeans, Chinese, Indians, Zulus, Xhosas, et cetera. These large enclaves of tribal concentrations were like the artificial island of Deshima near Nagasaki (the only place in Japan to which foreign traders were admitted). (map 1)
For a long period of time, the area outside these large enclaves was overgrown by nature. Wild animals wandered around freely. The large enclaves themselves, charged with nostalgia, exaggerated their own identity, their fear of the present and uncertainty about the future, which led to an escalation of historicizing architecture. The theme park, with its allusion to safety and moral rectitude, was the unconscious architectural strategy whereby an unpleasant context could be psychologically denied. (map 2)
Overfamiliar with the boredom of life in the enclaves and the unnecessary thickness of the walls, many youngsters began to abandon their parents’ ideologies and prejudices and left the enclaves. They broke radically with the excessive nostalgia. The descendants of the former Haves and Have-nots pour all their talent and energy into the recovery of their society. Architecture is once again the instrument for creating this beautiful future. A new landscape arises. (map 3)
In their future city, the large enclaves are preserved as a reminder of post-Apartheid segregation. They are renamed the ‘Cemeteries of Prejudice and Paranoia’. Outside the cemeteries is the new city. (map 4)
