[FORM] - COMERCI - STUDENT WORK



Rachel Liu

“Vital Signs Monitor”




The story begins with the question of how architecture can be used to capture the moment of death. The series of buildings starts with four terminal illness patients, who spend the last few months of their lives in the nursing centers located in the top left and bottom right corners. As soon as each patient passes away in the building, the architecture slowly begins to collapse on itself. This process of self-destruction will take many decades. Eventually, when the last trace of these four patients ever existing in this world vanishes, the architecture becomes a ruin and the last place to memorialize their death and their lives.