The project provides an alternative approach to death in London. With the rapid development of the city, burial grounds across London have become increasingly scarce. The demand for burial land is still present due to the ties between death, rituals and religious practices. London’s muti-cultural society brings with it an even greater range of practices when dealing with the afterlife.

The project first seeks to understand the various practices of death and departure within London’s seven main religions. Finding overlapping practices with similar programmatic and spatial needs, the project positions itself as a secular space able to accommodate various practices towards death.

Situated within Rainham Marshes, the project draws on the vast landscape and its qualities to create spaces tailored to both the programmatic and emotional conditions experienced when dealing with death and the afterlife. Fragmented spaces are scattered along the site, using form and materiality to calibrate the visitor's experience of the landscape.