RAAD TOMB

Traditionally, a human tomb is a closed rectangular box. For Amin Sfeir, it should reflect the factual existence of a strong bonding relation between life and death, dark and light, body and soul, earth and heaven, now and then. The design of the Christian Raad Family Tomb in Kfarnabrakh-Chouf translates the above concept with a half-open rectangle revealing its white transparent structure, which consists of four sons and six daughters, covered by the symbolic vine. The tomb is left open like the tomb of Jesus, who rolled the stone away to keep it wide open to God, life, love, light, and eternity

The Vine and the Branches (John 15 – NIV)

“15 I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. 2 He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes[a] so that it will be even more fruitful. 3 You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you. 4 Remain in me, as I also remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me. 5 I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit.”