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2019
Art installation

The brick is a pure representation of the dead, purely consist of post-cremation ashes without any chemical additive by imitating the natural formation process of limestone. The idea of the loss's incarnation in the form of the brick introduces a new way of collective burier integrating funerary ritual with the architecture of the memorial by representing the social structure of the loss through the act of physical and spiritual construction. The translucent filling on each brick (which is determined by the amount of post-cremated ash) captures the light and tells the story of the loss individually and collectively as a structure. Bricks become collective monuments under different assemblies.



Warren James, Julia van den Hout, and Kyle May
Original Copy
Kyle May Architects
Bryan Zimmerman

EXIT Architecture: Speculations for the Hereafter

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Identity Design
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