Mack student earns national recognition for rethinking the cemetery
July 25 2025
Emelie Fraser from the Mackintosh School of Architecture has been named winner of the 19th 3DReid Student Prize.
Fraser secured the honour after joining four other finalists in Manchester to present her work, “O Parque dos Mortos”, which rethinks cemetery design from a place of death to a bringer of life via urban renewal.
The part II architecture student explored the architectural embodiment of death, earning the praise of judges for her sensitive exploration of a taboo subject and a graceful response to grieving and remembrance.
Identifying a dramatic cliff face above the Tagus in Lisbon, Portugal, Fraser conceived a sequence of spaces to transport visitors through the stages of grief, including a hall of memories and garden of reflection.
Runners up were Drew Rumgay of the University of Dundee; James Fan, at the Royal College of Art in London; Kaja Hayes of the University of Greenwich and Lee Thackray of Northumbria University.
Fraser was praised for turning a cemetery into an urban sanctuary for contemplation
The cliff face has been reimagined as a sequence of geometric spaces
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