Cemetry Design Competition, Lebanon, 2022

“When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then
shall come to pass the saying that is written: ‘Death is swallowed up in victory.”
1 Cor. 15:54
The Immaterial in unison with the Material, the point of contraflexure between the Spirit and the
Flesh, Death, interjects the fundamental understanding of Life and its constituents, for those
who live and the departed. This tangential relationship between life and death, the Perpetual
Wheel of death, Channeling souls to the afterlife and the vector directionality of life that meets
death at a tangent, calls for a scheme that expresses this dilemma, one that gives life to hope,
hope for a soulful and purposeful existence.
Spatial Embrasure explores this disruption of daily order while creating spaces that soothe the
mourner as well as facilitate the smooth transition from one phase of existence to the other.
The Chapel, abeacon of hope in a dark time, spatially Unifies the two strings of existence, Life
and Death, in Light, embracing each end for the Hope of the Afterlife. The outer shell clutching
the inner shell, protects the delicacy of the inner shell, the inner being, the delicate soul, the
fractured heart, the Heart that has lost a beloved. The tombs embedded in an infinite circle, give
the totality and wholeness of the transition phase due reverence while consoling and calming
the space, embracing all externalities in its perpetual existence, The Infinity Circle. The spatial
arrangement of spaces and forms facilitates solitude for effective individual mourning while
embracing communal and collective mourning, all working in symbiosis with nature which
intertwines with the site in a seamless way. Spaces that clasp together Spatial Connection,
Spacial Union and Spacial Conversations.
Spatial Embrasure.