SWA Group's design for a permanent memorial to those killed at the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Connecticut has been given the go-ahead to be built.
Named The Clearing, the memorial in Newtown to 26 people killed during a school shooting in December 2012 was designed to be a commemorative garden.
SWA Group's proposal for the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting memorial is set to be built
"We wanted to celebrate the lives of the victims while honoring memory, love, and grief as living processes rather than endpoints," said Daniel Affleck of SWA Group's San Francisco studio.
"Seasonality, movement, giving, and growth are celebrated in the design and help to foster those processes," he told Dezeen.
The memorial will be a garden with several meandering paths The memorial will feature a series of paths that lead to a central clearing where visitors to the memorial can gather.
A circular water feature made from granite will stand at the centre of the clearing. It will be engraved with the names of the victims and channel water towards a young tree referred to by the studio as a "Sacred Sycamore".
The tree is intended to signify the growth of the community.
A clearing at the centre of the memorial will feature a granite water feature
"The site was topographically fragmented, which made organizing the site very difficult," explained Ben Waldo of SWA Group's San Francisco studio.
"The circle was a simple solution to...