JESSIE GEMMER
JESSIE GEMMER
Architecture is the bridge between the spiritual and the material.
My first year at Virginia Tech 32 of my peers died in a mass shooting. My last year at Virginia Tech I completed an academic thesis, designing a memorial to the people who died in the massacre. I explored how architecture could help my school and community by using the tools I had been learning from my school and my community. I posited that a physical space can be made sacred, without any association with faith or religion, through architectural form that conveys the qualities of dreams, memories and fantasy.
Architecture is the bridge between the spiritual and the material.
My first year at Virginia Tech 32 of my peers died in a mass shooting. My last year at Virginia Tech I completed an academic thesis, designing a memorial to the people who died in the massacre. I explored how architecture could help my school and community by using the tools I had been learning from my school and my community. I posited that a physical space can be made sacred, without any association with faith or religion, through architectural form that conveys the qualities of dreams, memories and fantasy.
