There are over 360,000 low-wage migrant construction laborers in Dubai.
In 2005, the government of Dubai officially reported the construction-related deaths of 39 foreign nationals. However, in that same year Construction Week magazine reported 460 deaths of construction laborers; the Indian Consulate in Dubai reported the deaths of 971 Indian citizens alone.
This project proposes a modest mourning and cremation facility straddling the border between the Al Muhaisnah labor camp and the expatriate cemetery which it surrounds. Inspired by Hindu funerary rituals which occur along the banks of the Ganges River, the project provides proper end-of-life rituals for the men who die in service to Dubai's dreams.
The question: Can the acts of cremation and disposal of remains memorialize people in a country that denies their very necessary existence?
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