SPACES FOR MOURNING- Redefining Pet Care and Memorialization, 2020
This thesis examines the role of death and bereavement within the urban context and the potential... more This thesis examines the role of death and bereavement within the urban context and the potential benefits of translating this emotion and outlook of grief into a positive catalyst for community building, placemaking, and personal growth. It focuses on the idea of pet crematoriums and dealing with the sorrow of the death of a pet in equality to that of a human. Our discomfort with the death of pets and inability to express, along with issues of land value and hygiene have moved these facilities to neglected parts of the city. This identifies our culture’s growing reluctance towards death and mourning as an eventuality, therefore why architecture dealing with these spaces tends towards the bland and unpleasing or unobtrusive. The thesis challenges these set contemporary approaches to the placement of death of pets in our psyches and in the city.
By redefining the government’s proposal set in Dwarka, Delhi, this pet crematorium design reflects death and remembrance not as something to be isolated but rather as a positive impetus within our lives and communities. To achieve this, a detailed architectural hierarchy is developed based out of three main strategies: functionality, celebrating the unseen, and poeticized transition. Variations among these themes will be employed to create a meaningful and powerfully charged set of architectural forms and elements.
SPACES FOR MOURNING- Redefining Pet Care and Memorialization, 2020
This thesis examines the role of death and bereavement within the urban context and the potential... more This thesis examines the role of death and bereavement within the urban context and the potential benefits of translating this emotion and outlook of grief into a positive catalyst for community building, placemaking, and personal growth. It focuses on the idea of pet crematoriums and dealing with the sorrow of the death of a pet in equality to that of a human. Our discomfort with the death of pets and inability to express, along with issues of land value and hygiene have moved these facilities to neglected parts of the city. This identifies our culture’s growing reluctance towards death and mourning as an eventuality, therefore why architecture dealing with these spaces tends towards the bland and unpleasing or unobtrusive. The thesis challenges these set contemporary approaches to the placement of death of pets in our psyches and in the city.
By redefining the government’s proposal set in Dwarka, Delhi, this pet crematorium design reflects death and remembrance not as something to be isolated but rather as a positive impetus within our lives and communities. To achieve this, a detailed architectural hierarchy is developed based out of three main strategies: functionality, celebrating the unseen, and poeticized transition. Variations among these themes will be employed to create a meaningful and powerfully charged set of architectural forms and elements.
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By redefining the government’s proposal set in Dwarka, Delhi, this pet crematorium design reflects death and remembrance not as something to be isolated but rather as a positive impetus within our lives and communities. To achieve this, a detailed architectural hierarchy is developed based out of three main strategies: functionality, celebrating the unseen, and poeticized transition. Variations among these themes will be employed to create a meaningful and powerfully charged set of architectural forms and elements.
By redefining the government’s proposal set in Dwarka, Delhi, this pet crematorium design reflects death and remembrance not as something to be isolated but rather as a positive impetus within our lives and communities. To achieve this, a detailed architectural hierarchy is developed based out of three main strategies: functionality, celebrating the unseen, and poeticized transition. Variations among these themes will be employed to create a meaningful and powerfully charged set of architectural forms and elements.