The City of Meaningful Encounters is a crucible for life and decay alike. Conjoining the taboos of each end of the human experience, it confronts the end-user with truth and wisdom. Rather than disturb, this sacred space aims to educate, comfort, and solidify people in the rituals of birth and death. This projects asks: can a building be a companion?

This project involved complex model-making, scripting of physics simulations in Grasshopper, the creation of a wholistic manifesto, and an attempt to push the brief to its limits.