AFTER LIFE

Los Angeles, the U.S.

2022 Spring Status Area Instructor

SCI-Arc Completed

3,840 sqm

Michael Casey Rehm

Soomeen Hahm

John Cooper

Design Development|

AI: CycleGan, Style Transfer

Generative design: Processing,Houdini,Zbrush,Rhino,Grasshopper,Python

Sun analyze: Grasshopper Ladybug

Visualization : UE5

Presentation:Adobe suits

After Life is a cutting-edge solution that revolutionizes cemetery design by generating proposals that are optimized for local climate and economic conditions. It addresses the growing shortage of cemetery space in cities by combining death spaces with innovative vertical farming technologies.

Utilizing advanced 3D and 2D Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), along with voxel-based procedural algorithms, After Life seamlessly blends the unique spatial qualities of traditional monuments with the vertical design of the cemetery. The result is a functional and aesthetically pleasing space that meets the diverse needs of the community.

The U.S. population is aging and the baby boom will lead to a shortage of cemetery space. By 2060, nearly a quarter of U.S. residents will be over age 65 and the total life expectancy in the U.S. is projected to research an all-time high of 85.6 years. The year 2030 marks a demographic turning point for the United States. Beginning that year, all baby boomers will be older than 65. If incoming baby boomers expect to be buried in the metropolitan areas where most people live, this challenge will be compounded. Rethinking how we live with death in the metropolis — is a potential solution to one of the biggest problems cities are facing: We are running out of space to store the dead, and the way we do it now is environmental disasters.

Program

Future cemeteries should be coped with the environmental and land issue together. “After life ”program is a multi functional creation that preserves and stores the memories of all the deceased and by the high-technology decomposition system. Human lives will represent to new lives energy and fertilizer to light up the city. It will be a new infrastructure for supporting people still alive. Linkage to this “memory museum” will allow people to worship the deceased with this prototype and it can be part of people’s daily lives.