The Death of a Living Cemetery
one character and its changing faces
one character and its changing faces
The following project is part of an architectural project done during the fourth year of study in a total of five. More specifically (and still quite vague), it is an investigation into cultural identity in relation to memory and the affect time has on it as well as on architecture. What is below is the representation for said project. The project calls for three programs to be present on the site: a cemetery, a cenotaph, and a sacred space. Instead of having them relate spatially, the projects become one project, and thus relate temporally as they change in meaning over time. Consequently each changing face, or program, of the project is constructed through drawings, kept in an unfolding book. A book that, like the project itself, is required to take time to look at and more importantly, read through. Furthermore the story of the changing faces is told in reverse to not only bring attention to the sequence of events and historically sequential retellings in general, but to also question the notion of beginning and end and perhaps touch on the openness of an architectural work.
