The project proposes a butchery that defies the death of the animals sacrificed for our consumption; it reconstructs meat-bodies and unites the local neighbourhood which disbands across Greece over the summer.

The project uses shared food–the focal point of the modern Dionysian festival–as a device for reuniting the community at the end of summer. This aim of reunion was inspired by personal reflections on the intergenerational disconnection that can arise when there is not a mother tongue in common. Food cooked and shared, however, can root younger generations back to the culture of their elders.

Set in Kypseli, Athens, the project draws on the lost history of ritual sacrifice secretly embedded in classical architecture. The project has a strong tectonic focus, exploring the physical qualities of meat as a tensile structure. A ‘visual poetry’ is performed in the semi-sculptural tectonics and spatial layout of the building, to reveal the processing of meat for our consumption.

The building treats the animals as equal to humans by respecting the carcasses in relation to space as well as atmospheric conditions. Conversely, human occupants of the building are sometimes treated as animals without their knowing.