Silence of Ruin Part 2 Project 2025 Zaid Jabiri University of Cambridge | UK The tomb of St. John in Sebastia, Palestine, sits in a landscape full of history but still fragile. Once the biblical capital of Samaria, Sebastia was home to kings, saints, and empires. Now, only traces remain, fallen columns, stacked chapels, and ruins that have been buried, reused, or left to decay over time. Unable to access the site in person, the project relied on improvised methods. Over 10,000 manually adjusted photographs were used to reconstruct the site through light and angle. From this dataset, point cloud models were generated, creating a digital image of space, a cm accurate tool of precision.At the heart of the intervention is a suspended steel floor that records the footsteps of visitors, preserving not architecture, but traces of use and life. A curtain-draped chapel hovers gently over stone ruins, like a liturgical veil. Nearby, a quiet guest cabin sits within a garden, awaiting visitors. Together, these gestures propose a form of preservation that embraces fragility, ambiguity, and care.This is not a reconstruction of the past, but an architecture of remembrance, one that makes space for absence as much as presence. In a place shaped by erasure and resilience, to have left a trace is enough. Tutor(s)