Healing Tree Burial Memorial Park
Architecture / Landscape / Memory
THE FOREST ITSELF BECOMES THE MEMORIAL.
CIRCLE OF ADINGO reinterprets memorial space through the relationship between people, ancestors and nature. The architecture does not stand apart from the forest; it is designed as a temporary framework through which memory returns to landscape.
The cultural research board is retained as the source of the project’s visual and narrative language: site, belief, nature, rainbow and memorial symbolism.
The project is read vertically: an upper water landscape and a lower memorial chamber centered on the same living tree.
A circular water surface surrounds the opening to the central tree, establishing the upper layer of the memorial landscape.
The semi-underground circular chamber gathers visitors around the living tree. Light, keepsakes and mist establish a quieter spatial condition below the landscape.
The project is structured as a sequence of return, growth, water mist, light and rainbow. These are not decorative effects; together they form the memorial experience.
The hanging device integrates keepsake, collected moisture, a bottom ring mist nozzle and light. The rainbow appears only when light and fine mist coincide.
Tree burial is presented as a three-stage ecological succession: emergence, stabilization and mature shared landscape.
Young trees establish distinct memorial plots and clear boundaries.
Plant communities grow, ecological function strengthens and individual boundaries begin to blur.
The burial ground becomes a shared forest landscape and the memorial condition is carried by ecology itself.
A journey from uncertainty to belonging.
Through landscape, toward the ancestral realm.
The journey through the memorial landscape reflects a symbolic passage from uncertainty to belonging. Moving from the outer realm, across the Rainbow Bridge and toward the Ancestral Core, the spatial sequence translates the project’s interpretation of Atayal beliefs into remembrance and reunion.
The peripheral space of spirits who have not passed the ancestral trial. In the project’s interpretation, those who have not followed gaga or fulfilled their responsibilities remain at the edge of the ancestral world.
A critical threshold of judgment and transition, separating the Outer Realm from the Ancestral Realm. The crossing gives the journey through landscape its symbolic direction.
A landscape of rest and reunion, shaped by forest, earth and nature. Memory is held within the living landscape rather than confined to a permanent monument.
The deepest place of respect for those who upheld gaga and fulfilled their responsibilities to family and community. The central living tree completes the sequence: a return to the earth, and the continuation of life and memory through nature.
Spatial narrative from the original project board.