10 Years of Mourning
Autumn 2022 - Summer 2023
Instructors: Freddie Phillipson & Laurence Lumley
Site: The Dee Estuary, Flint, North Wales, UK
This Cemetery prolongs the mourning process: first, a 10 year burial upon the raised burial grounds, after which the skeletal remains are moved into ossuary boxes: an ancient technique. This is their final resting place, placed in the outward-facing walls holding up the mounds, facing the landscape of the sea and the elements beyond.
When arriving for a ceremony, guests are guided past the flower kiosk and administrative buildings into the mound, where the ceremony takes place, with a view to the sky above. After, guests process up a long ramp up to the burial ground above.
Situated close to the remains of a Medieval fortified castle town, the scheme builds up terraces to exaggerate the edges of existing topographical mounds, atop of which the burial grounds sit.
10 Years of Mourning
Autumn 2022 - Summer 2023
Instructors: Freddie Phillipson & Laurence Lumley
Site: The Dee Estuary, Flint, North Wales, UK
This Cemetery prolongs the mourning process: first, a 10 year burial upon the raised burial grounds, after which the skeletal remains are moved into ossuary boxes: an ancient technique. This is their final resting place, placed in the outward-facing walls holding up the mounds, facing the landscape of the sea and the elements beyond.
When arriving for a ceremony, guests are guided past the flower kiosk and administrative buildings into the mound, where the ceremony takes place, with a view to the sky above. After, guests process up a long ramp up to the burial ground above.
Situated close to the remains of a Medieval fortified castle town, the scheme builds up terraces to exaggerate the edges of existing topographical mounds, atop of which the burial grounds sit.
