Apr 12, 2016
f u g u e work in progress Two lines intertwined, Each, segments of the cycle, Extend and contain.
seen from France
seen from Australia
seen from United Arab Emirates
seen from China
seen from China
seen from United Kingdom
seen from Brazil
seen from Netherlands
seen from Germany
seen from China
seen from Israel
seen from China
seen from Malaysia
seen from United States
seen from Russia
seen from Japan
seen from Malaysia
seen from China
seen from Singapore
seen from China
f u g u e work in progress Two lines intertwined, Each, segments of the cycle, Extend and contain.
p r e l u d e + f u g u e
The current state of death infrastructure in dense urban cities is unsustainable. The essentially permanent land occupation of traditional burial has brought the city and its surrounds to the limits of capacity. Recognizing this limit state, New York City requires the development of a new infrastructure for death – a system that can not only absorb the spatial consequences of death in the city but also expertly reconfigure the rituals associated with death.
The proposed project is an architectural infrastructure of balance, simultaneously celebrating both life and death while manifesting, in spatial terms, the underlying and understated cultural nature that death maintains in society.
