Mourning Spaces
Architecture and design that addresses grief, remembrance, loss, and spaces dedicated to mourning and memorialization.
NEW MEMORY: Senior Living Architecture Shaped by Color, Community and the Moroccan Medina
New Memory rethinks senior living architecture through colors, courtyards and shared spaces that strengthen memory, autonomy and connection.
Counterspace Resurrects Lost Gathering Spaces in Doha
Sumayya Vally's installation for Art Basel Qatar channels demolished sites of assembly across the Muslim world into sculptural form.
Requiem for a Dream: A Powerful Exploration of Memorial Architecture in Syria
A contemporary memorial architecture project transforming war-torn memory into spatial resilience, reflection, and collective hope.
Vertical Cemetery | Sustainable Funerary Architecture
Reimagining deathcare through vertical form, where memory, ritual, and sustainable funerary architecture converge in the heart of the city.
Exit Music: Reimagining Death as Civic Infrastructure in New Delhi
A funerary landscape in Vikram Nagar proposes that remembrance, ritual, and ecology can heal the urban fractures modern cities refuse to confront.
Between Memory and Oblivion: A Refugee Cemetery Carved into the Landscape of Lesvos
Mourning Courses proposes a cemetery for refugees on the Greek island of Lesvos, where water, light, and carved ground guide visitors through grief.
From Vibrancy to Vacancy: Addressing the Decline of Urban Structures
“When the ‘Heart’ weeps for what it has lost, The ‘Spirit’ laughs for what it has found”
Barrancos Mortuary: Exemplifying Contemporary Cemetery Architecture in Portugal
Barrancos Mortuary in Portugal exemplifies contemporary cemetery architecture, blending local materials, landscape integration, and contemplative, functional spaces for remembrance.
A Journey of the Dead: Vertical Cemetery Architecture Reimagined as Urban Parkland
A 26-storey modular cemetery tower system weaves burial rituals, sky gardens, and civic walkways into dense urban life.
Resonating Memories: A Funerary Tower Where Chimes Hold Ashes and Sound Replaces Stone
A vertical memorial fuses crematorium, market, and wind-activated copper chimes into an architecture of collective mourning and urban life.
Memory Requiem: Dissolving the Boundary Between Cemetery and City Park in Shanghai
A shortlisted cemetery design splits a dense Shanghai site into zones for life and death, linked by a contemplative park and bio-lab ecology.
Loop of Living, Circle of Dead: A Circular Sanctuary Where Ash Becomes Forest
A memorial architecture proposal transforms urban funerary rites into regenerative landscape through water, ritual, and a symbolic island of trees.
