The Chapel of Grieving
Through the use of color, light, sound, and illusion, the five stages of grief are represented and provoked by architectural form. The circulation through Isolation, Anger, Depression, Bargaining, and Acceptance can be experienced in a linear or wandering progression, a paradox which parodies the notion that grief can be easily compartmentalized.
The building plan samples religious forms but asks no spiritual allegiance of its inhabitants. The Chapel of Grieving is dogmatic only in the promotion of space to experience the complex unfolding process of grief. This building a continual work in progress, operated on throughout the architect's life as he crosses path with grief increasingly over time.
