The Chapel of Grieving
Through the use of color, light, sound, and illusion, the five stages of grief are materialized in architectural form. The result is an architecture which both represents and provokes each emotion.
The circulation through Isolation, Anger, Depression, Bargaining, and Acceptance can be experienced in a linear or wandering progression, a paradox which laughs at the notion that something as complex as grief can be compartmentalized in the first place.
Despite the many religious typologies sampled in the building’s plan, the Chapel of Grieving is designed to be a secular space - dogmatic only in the belief that individuals deserve public space to process the complex and enduring process of grief.
This building a continual work in progress, occasionally operated on throughout the architect's life as he crosses path with grief more and more over time.
