With megadroughts and rising temperatures aggravated by climate change, the number of wildfires in California through the past decades has increased dramatically. The Camp Fire in 2018 was the deadliest and most destructive wildfire in California’s history. It burned through the forest and town, releasing a considerable amount of harmful chemicals and PM2.5 particles, injuring residents and devastating the forest.
This intervention is memorialized through temporality. Communal construction and subsequent decomposition aid in the reforestation progress of the forest after a wildfire. Research on the adaptability of local evergreen species, determined that the Gray Pine species is selected as new growth will be planted in the center of the memorial.
As an eco-friendly architecture, every piece of this intervention is decomposable and designed to biodegrade into basic natural components over hundreds of years, while the evergreen grows. When our generations are gone, and the memorial decomposes into the earth, the tree will ultimately take its place.
