Conceptually situated at the intersection of life and death, "Earth Rising" presents a crematorium and funerary chapel designed to make manifest the emotional progression of a funerary ritual. As visitors move through the building's programmatic layers, light-filled, timber-led spaces gradually give way to heavier interiors. Excavated soil is repurposed into a rammed earth envelope that rises and darkens as the ritual progresses—experientially mirroring the arc of burial through a symbolic descent into the ground. Through spatial sequence, materiality, and light the project embodies, in the words of Japanese author Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, "an aesthetic not of a celebrant but of a mourner."