The project is for a chapel and auditorium with supporting facilities that references the changing agricultural landscape of Lisbon. Inspired by cartographic, agrarian and animist attitudes to landscape, the natural world and their uniquely spiritual qualities, this non-denominational chapel will allow for spiritual reflection within the city and highlight the spiritual, more ephemeral features of landscape.

Visiting academics, scientists and intellectuals who are either from the adjacent natural history museum or the University of Lisbon are invited to reside, give talks and display their work in the gallery spaces, the auditorium and the facilities for residencies. The facilities within the building attempt to bridge the gap between the site’s museum and university, whilst also celebrating the botanical garden it is sited in. The project’s ambition is to inspire its inhabitants to tend to the land and encourage a primal 'love for the land', in the hope that this can transcend society's current trend of neglecting nature. The project plays with the idea of the macrocosm against the microcosm, the vast against the small, and the void against the occupied through a cartographic, agrarian and animist lens.