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Connor, Lydia

This thesis seeks to explore how purposeful space making for grief can assist the grieving process and enable the Western culture to embrace grief as a part of every day. This thesis expands on the idea that grief is an emotional experience that should be supported more thoroughly. This is a proposal to create a space for the living to gather and individually reflect, celebrate and connect with deceased loved ones through grief rituals. The current cemetery model is no longer serving people in a healthy way – they have simply become outdated places to store bodies and not places to express grievances. The new funerary typology will have a focus on the natural qualities of the living world to create an atmosphere that is inclusive for non-religious, secular beliefs. It will highlight secular rituals for death rites as a method of accepting, processing and living with grief in the long-term. In addition to becoming a space for grievers, this design intervention will serve as a larger symbol of grief in the everyday to the community of the Greater Vancouver Area.

Greater Vancouver (B.C.)

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University of British Columbia. ARCH 549

Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library

10.14288/1.0413576

Applied Science, Faculty of; Architecture and Landscape Architecture (SALA), School of

Unreviewed

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