Claiming Continuity
Moad Musbahi, MArch (Year: 5)
Claiming continuity considers a place in which everyday sociality is structured through a reading of the past.
It considers the inter-generational infrastructure that exists between the living and their ancestors and proposes to augment the rituals of visitation and remembrance that maintain this infrastructure. The project takes on forms of care enacted through a radical hospitality that makes little distinction between the living and the dead.
By highlighting the architectural logic of this radical hospitality, in an arena in which rights to land and are articulated and negotiated as social relations, knowledge of the past becomes a tool for future mobilisation, settlement and political action. Here, the proposed services index and promote this already existing social practice.

views of the proposal

site plan of the djarid region, tunisia/algeria border

kinship distribution of neighbourhood in relation to distribution of tombs

the city of mitlawi with graveyard and proposed services attached

spatialising the ritual of visitation with the corresponding proposed services

distribution of services across the cities of the djarid region

the graveyard wall becomes a hydrological infrastructure to carry water from wells to the different services along its perimenter

section of three moments of the wall showing the built in channel

the graveyard wall within the city
