From Soul to Soil
Rooted in grief, ecology and material transformation, this work explores architecture as a process of care. It considers how buildings can hold emotional weight while responding to people, memory, material life and the wider environment as connected concerns. Centred on decay, ritual, landscape and accessibility, the work understands architecture as a slow process of repair, transformation and support.
From Soul to Soil investigates death as a return to the landscape, using human composting to question conventional cemetery design and propose a more regenerative relationship between grief, body and ecology. Materiality and atmosphere are central to the project, from rammed earth, timber, fabric and planting to light, enclosure, texture, sound and movement.
The work aims to create spaces that feel sensitive, purposeful and responsible, while remaining conceptually strong, technically grounded and attentive to the communities, ecologies and stories they become part of.
