Inspired by the Zoroastrian Towers of Silence burial ritual, these spaces invert the burial process by bringing death away from the ground and up to the skies. Examination of how decomposition affects the body through physical erasure was explored throughout the design process. Like bodies, spaces deteriorate, compress, and split apart when the soul has vacated the insides. The spaces here emphasize the separation between the “skin” and the “organs” and how a body opens up as it is exposed over time, like a skeleton once the muscle dissolves. The physical circulation within the membrane follows an upward sequence that…
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