Since the industrial revolution, the notion of craftsmanship has been in slow decline. Today, our digital age has driven traditional crafts to the point of near extinction due to dependency on their makers' skills and knowledge being lost. A Sanctuary for Dying Crafts provides a refuge for learning and conservation of endangered crafts to preserve our intangible heritage, spiritual values, and founding principles of artisanry through the passing of skills and techniques in the hope that they will survive.

Slowly constructed as an extension of a disused burial ground, the school lies upon the churchyard of Hawksmoor’s Christ Church, in Spitalfields, London. Sacred spaces are reappropriated as tentative places for learning the rituals of making, where endangered haptic skills are passed on. A drawing chapel facilitates the dying act of hand drawing, while a columbarium’s niches hold artefacts represented as tangible markers of their maker's intangible heritage. A nave houses traditional construction techniques fused with digital manufacturing, acknowledging our future while preserving our haptic past.