This rendering shows a view from the back of the space with the entrance on the far end. People looking at the names on the walls and sitting by the reflective pool convey the dimensions of the whole.
This cross section of the memorial shows the stairs going down from the entrance on the left, the names of the deceased inscribed on the wall, and the light from the sky falling through the apertures in the ceiling.
This view from the entryway shows the inside of the space, with the names of the neighborhood's COVID victims etched into the walls, with light shining down through openings in the ceiling, reflecting the sky in the water of the basin.
A mock-up of the façade of the memorial shows how it is modeled on the front of brownstone buildings, which are representative of the area's architectural beauty.
The memorial site is located in Morningside Park, a thirty-acre public park in Upper Manhattan. The park grounds reach from 110th to 123rd Street and feature sections of exposed bedrock, which gave me the idea of building the memorial inside the roc
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