The Mari Memorial stands as a landscape of memory — a place that holds absence and invites reflection. Triggered by an explosion, it acknowledges loss in its rawness, then turns toward society, continuity and cohesion.

In the design, two found industrial cylinders form pivot points of orientation. One is the repaired chimney of a power-station, the other a water-tank that survived untouched. Between and around them, axes are drawn: one touches the crater and the sea; another aligns with the names of victims. The visitor’s path is determined, measured and meaningful.

The material contrast is quiet but decisive: compacted ground becomes the floor, white-washed reinforced concrete the walls. This duality frames the transition from event to memory, from rupture to calm.

In sum: a memorial not as monument to spectacle, but as terrain for pause, recognition and renewal.