Background

Following on from the themes in my fourth year dissertation (Rationally, Irrational: The New York City Skyscraper), this project takes the Skyscraper typology to perhaps the most extreme and ‘irrational’ context on Earth, Antarctica. 

This conceptual project responds to these issues surrounding funerary architecture in contemporary society by providing  an alternative form of object focused  means of commemoration located at the South Pole in the year 2069. Based on the theory of meaning reconstruction, people are invited to undertake a pilgrimage to deposit physical memories in the reliquary to both preserve their memories and to construct a new narrative for their own lives moving forwards. The cold environment is perfectly suited for preserving the relics.