[PROPOSITIONS] - RONAN - STUDENT WORK



Stuti Bindlish,
Margaret Gies, Zaid Marji



“A Change of State:
Water Cemetery for the Unclaimed”




The project addresses the issue of unclaimed bodies in Chicago. Inspired by the industrial Chinatown neighborhood in downtown Chicago, the project utilizes water and corten as a material to create a long-term memorial and resting place for the hundreds of unclaimed bodies left every year in the city. The cemetery's design is centered around water as a connector and partner to the unclaimed souls, acting as a guide from the beginning to the end of their transition to the other world. The visitors to the cemetery experience a cyclical journey of introspection through transitions between contraction and expansion of zones on the site, marked by corten steel walls, running continuously beside the living (visitors).







ROBERT ADAMS
Douglas Tsui,
Anahita Mojahed


Brian Smith

MARIA ARQUERO de ALARCÓN + CLAUDIA WIGGER
Dongdong Shu,
Kejie Wang


Abraham Ramirez, Belen Heybroek, Emma Powers

Jason Tran


Zoe Kuo


CORY HENRY
Kenda Soler, Ivan Gort-Cabeza de Vaca, Sonja Millermaier

Vanessa Aguilar, Senmiao Guo, Shuyue Lei, Haorui Tian

SHARON HAAR
James (Collin) Garnett,
Abdallah Kamhawi
       
Leslie (Jacquie) Duarte,
Sicong Zhang

MICK KENNEDY
Connor Tuthill, Naomi Grigoryan, Jordan Zauel

Andrew Hoover, Zach Keller, Ricardo Guisse


JEN MAIGRET
Elizabeth Ervin,
Jacob Nuget,
Elliot Smithberger


Devendra Dugad


ADAM MILLER
Gayathri Sivakumar,
Ryan Dowdle


Aric Reed, Maho Kobayashi

KEVIN MOULTRIE-DAYEClayton Arvin,
John Fitzsimmons,
Esther Francois,
Seunghun Lee,
Colin McAllister,
Pilar O'Hara,
Shilpa Pandey, Areej Shahin,
Katherine Shipman,
Vance Smith, Joseph Suetholz


ISHTIAQ RAFIUDIN
Sophia Johansen
Timothy Peterson

JOHN RONAN
Gabby Porter,
Xipeng Wu
                       
Stuti Bindlish,
Zaid Marji,
Margaret Gies

LISA SAUVÉ
Xianyi Wang                   
Karel Venegas-Cabrera

GEOFFREY THÜN
Jiawei Ding, Chengdai Yang, Weiran Zhang               
Quan Li,
Wenyuan Zhang, Qianwei Zhang

LEAH WULFMAN
Spencer Reay,
Claire Jiang

Jacob Brown,
Yanlin Zhou