The Archive of You & I
Building & Brand Design | KRVIA Undergraduate Architectural Thesis mentored by Shantanu Poredi, Personal Project
Context: The cemetery is the record-keeping unit of the city; a site where remembrance takes on a spatial form. Challenge: In a society where the institution of death is evolving, can the role of the cemetery evolve into a socio-cultural one, adding value to people’s lives more than it already does through harbored memories in physical remains of the body? Insight: While monuments carry the history of cities and wider populations, the cemetery is an archive that accumulates stories and memories of the city's people and their being. Solution: The Archive of You & I is a garden, a building, and what sits within. It holds our ordinary stories and transforms the cemetery into a memorial landscape where you and I find solace that we, too, are not forgotten.