Memorial to the Covid-19 victims

The Covid-19 pandemic has touched everyone's lives. For three years, it has changed and continues to change the path we walk. Therefore, our proposal starts from the road/path that intersects/connects, space/places and everyone who is here must be on it, it cannot be avoided. The trail begins by descending the slope around the clinic, passes into the park through a dense grove of trees, then onto a short clearing between the shore and the grove, and immediately imaginatively crosses the lake, where it re-materializes into a trail on the opposite shore. The footpath is five metres wide and is divided transversely in the same grid. The path is one, but has different stages that leave their mark. We materialize these footprints in the trail as the spaces between the four concrete walls that cross the trail in the clearing between the lake and the grove. These spaces are isolated from each other despite their proximity. They refer to times of lockdown, of breaking relationships, of sharing and communicating with each other. Each wall also has its own door, which can remain closed or open to allow and reconnect places/footprints along the way. We connect these four concrete walls with two brick walls perpendicular to them that are parallel to the line of the path. Together the walls enclose three spaces, three empty rooms, which are meant to remind us of the empty rooms left by the victims of Covid-19. These empty rooms across Slovakia will be refilled with new life, but these three rooms in the park by the lake will always remain empty. A memorial to the empty rooms.