Mar 4, 2016
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.