Disused Buildings In The 19th Century

Buildings are products of the imagination, that is what connects us to them.
Some go further than that and become just a romantic obsession. Throughout time we have begun to modify the landscape in which surround us, This leading us to create large industrial cities with many buildings of disuse. As time passes buildings are being left derelict due to many factors such as dying trades, for example, coal and mining villages. Buildings to this day have been changed and modified and have housed so many different multi-purpose uses and each has a unique history. In this current day, we see more and more disused buildings and this is increasing on a yearly basis. The rise in derelict structures is largely due to many factors such as financial crisis
It Emerged in the 19th century when Glasgow was flourishing financially with exceptional economic buoyancy and urban growth in engineering and shipbuilding. While Glasgow was the second city of the British Empire there was a prosperous middle class and a extreme amount of poverty. In 1831 the population trebled from 77,385 to 200,000 this lead to overcrowding and extreme deprivation, which then further led to bad sanitation. During the 1830’s over 5,000 people were buried in insanitary urban churches. As a result of this it led to a enormous quantity of deaths. When people died the place where everyone wanted to be buried was the Necropolis. The Necropolis is positioned east of the 12th Century Gothic mother church Glasgow Cathedral. It is located 225 feet above the river Clyde. The Necropolis has 50,000 individual interments buried here; only about 3,500 have tombs, the majority lie in communal graves. My first opinion of the Necropolis was that there was such beauty in a decaying site. After not realising its close proximity to the City Centre it was so surreal with it having such an efficacious arrangement. The design takes you on a journey itself, The paths meander throughout the beautiful decaying facade constructed gravestones by some of Glasgow’s most desirable architects. After exploring the residence I noticed that nearby there was a large amount of vandalism. While talking to numerous
yes they still house the dead but they no longer hold the purpose of being such a glamorous site and where everyone wants to be buried it is now a place for graffiti, sex, drugs and party use. In relation it concentrates and touches on contemporary uses of industrial ruins, the disordering of space, materiality in the ruins waste, excess and sensuality and many more topics. It shows the beauty in the sensuality of the materials within a derelict site. Which i feel reminds me very much so of Glasgow Necropolis while reading this while visiting this site. I felt that this is important because it opens many doors to talk about with the derealization of a building and how the beauty is in fact within the materials and the reuse of these derelict