cells begin as abstractions of simple principles of cathedral/church design. through exaggerations and accelerations of certain evolutionary trajectories and material qualities, the cells aggregate and differentiate to form new relational hierarchies and affects. material and topological transformations occur at global and local scales to produce effects of hard/soft, fast/slow, thick/thin, light/heavy, light/dark, monumentality/masking, difference/repetition, life/death. contamination and conflict serve as productive forces in the morphological transformation of space that embodies both life and the afterlife.