The Path and the Park

The concept is designed around two ideas: to celebrate the historical and spiritual significance of the site, and to make the land a gift back to the community. The Path begins at the east, following the old cart path through the graves. The Path is built of wood and steel memorializing the coffins and grave markers that have long since disappeared.  With the wood offering warmth and craft to the experience, the Path makes a respectful journey through the known excavated portion of the site. Off this central walk are secondary gravel trails that pass between graves reaching areas of contemplation.  As the path crosses further west, it slopes up and rises off the ground which also begins to drop away—revealing the magnitude of the surrounding cemetery. Spiritually symbolic, the visitors become aware of their body being lifted as they cross over and through the memorial. The graves themselves are marked with split slabs of alabaster, a white luminous stone.

In The Park, as the visitors take the rising trek to the west side of the memorial, they cross over a grove of Maples and the ground rises up to meet them in the form of a gentle grass mound: the center of a new community park. In this public park, visitors will find a wall of alabaster blocks in which the names of those buried are inscribed, one name per block allowing for future inscriptions if possible. Selected as finalist in international design competition.

Renderings by Biolinia.

The Path and the Park

The concept is designed around two ideas: to celebrate the historical and spiritual significance of the site, and to make the land a gift back to the community. The Path begins at the east, following the old cart path through the graves. The Path is built of wood and steel memorializing the coffins and grave markers that have long since disappeared.  With the wood offering warmth and craft to the experience, the Path makes a respectful journey through the known excavated portion of the site. Off this central walk are secondary gravel trails that pass between graves reaching areas of contemplation.  As the path crosses further west, it slopes up and rises off the ground which also begins to drop away—revealing the magnitude of the surrounding cemetery. Spiritually symbolic, the visitors become aware of their body being lifted as they cross over and through the memorial. The graves themselves are marked with split slabs of alabaster, a white luminous stone.

In The Park, as the visitors take the rising trek to the west side of the memorial, they cross over a grove of Maples and the ground rises up to meet them in the form of a gentle grass mound: the center of a new community park. In this public park, visitors will find a wall of alabaster blocks in which the names of those buried are inscribed, one name per block allowing for future inscriptions if possible. Selected as finalist in international design competition.

Renderings by Biolinia.

The Path and the Park

The concept is designed around two ideas: to celebrate the historical and spiritual significance of the site, and to make the land a gift back to the community. The Path begins at the east, following the old cart path through the graves. The Path is built of wood and steel memorializing the coffins and grave markers that have long since disappeared.  With the wood offering warmth and craft to the experience, the Path makes a respectful journey through the known excavated portion of the site. Off this central walk are secondary gravel trails that pass between graves reaching areas of contemplation.  As the path crosses further west, it slopes up and rises off the ground which also begins to drop away—revealing the magnitude of the surrounding cemetery. Spiritually symbolic, the visitors become aware of their body being lifted as they cross over and through the memorial. The graves themselves are marked with split slabs of alabaster, a white luminous stone.

In The Park, as the visitors take the rising trek to the west side of the memorial, they cross over a grove of Maples and the ground rises up to meet them in the form of a gentle grass mound: the center of a new community park. In this public park, visitors will find a wall of alabaster blocks in which the names of those buried are inscribed, one name per block allowing for future inscriptions if possible. Selected as finalist in international design competition.

Renderings by Biolinia.

The Path and the Park

The concept is designed around two ideas: to celebrate the historical and spiritual significance of the site, and to make the land a gift back to the community. The Path begins at the east, following the old cart path through the graves. The Path is built of wood and steel memorializing the coffins and grave markers that have long since disappeared.  With the wood offering warmth and craft to the experience, the Path makes a respectful journey through the known excavated portion of the site. Off this central walk are secondary gravel trails that pass between graves reaching areas of contemplation.  As the path crosses further west, it slopes up and rises off the ground which also begins to drop away—revealing the magnitude of the surrounding cemetery. Spiritually symbolic, the visitors become aware of their body being lifted as they cross over and through the memorial. The graves themselves are marked with split slabs of alabaster, a white luminous stone.

In The Park, as the visitors take the rising trek to the west side of the memorial, they cross over a grove of Maples and the ground rises up to meet them in the form of a gentle grass mound: the center of a new community park. In this public park, visitors will find a wall of alabaster blocks in which the names of those buried are inscribed, one name per block allowing for future inscriptions if possible. Selected as finalist in international design competition.

Renderings by Biolinia.