Project Description

Once, 'Debotakhum' was not a tourist destination, but a sacred home. Villagers lived along its edges in raised Marma houses called Jum Ghor, built on pilotis above the earth and water. They prayed here, offered rituals, and believed the gorge to be the Valley of Gods. Over time, floods erased their habitats. The houses disappeared. Human life withdrew. Only rock, water, and silence remained.

Today, tourists walk through the gorge, hearing the flowing spring and seeing the towering cliffs — but there is no space to pause, no place to feel the unseen history or the unheard prayers that once echoed here.

What if there were a gentle intervention — inspired by the spirit of the Jum Ghor — lightly elevated above the water, allowing visitors to stop?

Not a monument, but a moment. A pause of movement for the unseen mystery — where nature, myth, and memory blend once again.

This project upholds the history, the silenced nature can be seen and heard again. It proposes a gentle intervention: a 6' × 6' elevated structure, lifted 3' above water, inspired by the Jum Ghor. Built with stainless steel and anchored by rock bolts, it lightly rests against the gorge.

Not a monument — a moment. Over time, greenery will merge with it, as if nature quietly reclaims what was once sacred.