Title: Time to Past Project Type: Cemetery Site: Catskill, New York
Instructor: Ayesha Ghosh Year: 2022
Death is not the end of life, forgetting is. Cemetery is people’s yearning for the deceased
to stay with us, and it should not be a space filled with
sadness. The project proposes a new way to approach
the relationship between living and dead; creating
a container that can adapt forgetting, and adapt
the ground it dwells in. This project proposes a new
collective that fabricates and maintains a landscape for
memory where the deceased are earthen columns
that fade into the landscape over time.
The architecture, container of the creation of
the earthen columns reflects the same idea. Maybe
after some years, this place no longer serves its current
functions; however, at that time I believe the architecture
will have more definitions, given by nature and by the
people who finds it.
