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Reverence For Life And Death: A New Cemetery Typology, Ashlyn Olmstead
Reverence For Life And Death: A New Cemetery Typology, Ashlyn Olmstead
Bachelor of Architecture Theses - 5th Year
The current methods and traditions of burial practices and cemetery design are to be examined for architectural opportunities within this thesis study. The current practices of cemetery design and burial methodologies in the United States have shown signs of instability and lack of longevity due to the decreasing availability of land in dense city environments. Additional climatic factors such as rising sea levels also threaten below ground burial. In other countries, cities such as Hong Kong and Tokyo have already begun to research new methodologies surrounding burial due to this concern and the need for US cities to follow suit …
Memento Memoriam: Reconciling Death, Society, And The Environment, Damari Weaver
Memento Memoriam: Reconciling Death, Society, And The Environment, Damari Weaver
Bachelor of Architecture Theses - 5th Year
The increase in population, rising cost of funeral expenses, and environmental “permanence” of cemeteries has increased the burden of modern American burial practices. In order to reconcile the various environmental, financial and psychological challenges of death, the architecture of death-related practices must propose sustainable alternatives of honoring and “housing” the dead. It must create a supportive environment that assists in the mourning experience and helps foster thoughts of remembrance, and goes beyond the physical function of a cemetery, or a crematorium, or a columbarium, by focusing on architecture's subliminal nature to heal, orient, and evoke.