In Gqeberha, a suburb called South End is a landscape of absence—brownfields and dereliction marking the spaces where life was erased, yet never fully gone. The past lingers, unsettled. The scars of apartheid’s engineered division remain, but so do the echoes of what once was. This project is not solely about reconstruction, but revelation—an emergent architecture that adapts to the weight of its history.
Through adaptive reuse, fragments of culture, meaning, and memory are reassembled into a typology that does not replace but remembers—an architecture that bears witness, inhabits the present, and anticipates what is yet to come. A passage through time. In the tension between past and present, architecture becomes a mediator—reckoning with what remains, reconnecting what was severed.