_MArch [ARB/RIBA Part II] Year 04.
_RIBA West London Prize Nominee.
Approaching Death_ Travelling to the Cathedral for Death through the Tree Burial Cemetery.
Shell of the Ghost 01_Building the Narrative that the Ghost is the Shell.
Shell of the Ghost 02_Integrating Spectral Making Tests into the design principles.
Cinematic Maquette_ Palermo Site.
Esquisse_ Masterplan Development.
Phasing Death_ Phasing Illustration for the Palermitani Necropolis.
_Typology.
-Cathedral
-Monastery
-Funerary
-Cemetery
Set in Palermo, Sicily, this project explores Phase 02 of the design of a Palermitani Necropolis, through the study of living, the dead and the post-human bodies. Responding to the issues raised by the catachombs and rising death population of the city, The Cathedral for Death aims to question the meaning of death, bridging life and death.
Spectral Making 01_ Erosion through Chemicals on Alginate.
Spectral Making 02_ Acid-Etching Simulation on Paint.
Spectral Making 03_ Erosion through Repeated Motion.
Spectral Making 04_ Erosion through Chemicals.
Spectral Making 05_ True Marble Testing affects of erosion on thickness of material to produce illumination.
Chapel of Respite_ In Construction.
GFl_Plan
FFl_Plan
The Afterlife Construct_ Cathedral for Death in construction.
Constructing Worship_ Cathedral for Death being for masses during construction.
It proposes an alternate afterlife for humanity through tree burial and the recomposition of the body. The scheme plays with levels and light, accentuated by translucent marble to communicate an interplay between spaces for the living and the dead. Alongside this it considers the super-imposed faiths within Palermo, creating an architecture that in itself is a the ghost of the past that seeks to resolve the problems of the present to change the future.
Short Section_ Cathedral for Death.
Dome Tectonic Design.
Recomposition Vessel_ Detail.
Recomposition Process_ Isometric.
Long Section and -2Fl Plan_ Cathedral For Death.
