This project is an exploration of architecture and death, and how a concept that is typically so confronting, can be reconciled within an urban community through architecture. This is inspired by the lack of communication, understanding, and community engagement with the inevitable death of an individual or their loved ones. This active avoidance is translated to how the architectural spaces for death is designed, and as the world is moving towards phenomenologically designed spaces, it is no longer sufficient for fear to dictate the clinical functionality that dictates spaces of death. A shared experience across all walks of life should be investigated further to overcome societal prejudices and trauma, which this project intends on challenging to make the topic of death more accessible in an urban setting.
