Tree of Souls

Tree of Souls is a living pavilion that intends to express the flow of collective energy circulating between the ground and the air. With the Jongmyo shrine from the 14th century and the Sewoon megastructure from the 1960s on either side, it hosts a thousand plants and citizens and facilitates an experience of simultaneity. The growing mechanism is brought to life by lifting up the ground and exposing roots by an aeroponics system. In this way, the dichotomous relationship between the bottom and the top, the individual and the group, is broken down.