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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.