The whole design process is about how to provide better natural view for the users and strengthen the contact between deceases, living relatives and environment.
This area aims to provide a space that offers people to memorize past, to find out the meaning of life and death and offer spiritual sustenance and hopes for the living. That is not only for the deceased but also a psychology journey for the living.
There is a huge acrylic water pool in the center and I’m using the material that will reflect the surrounding bamboos to reduce the presence of the structure for the Immaterial entities effect.
After entering the entrance, people will go through the garden of death. The bamboo forest will cover a larger part of sunlight and creative slight sounds. It’s a very long corridor for people to calm down and prepare the last farewell.
A lot of vertical and horizontal lines are used in the whole space to create frame. The sun will shine in from the side and leads people's sight to the huge windows. The window act as a frame to frame the view of deceased and nature together.
This space expresses the cycle of death to the next stage. Just like the flowering plants here, they bloom and bear fruit, then wither and return to the land for fertilizer. Whether it's plants or people, life goes through the same cycle.
In this area, people can see the opposite land symbolising hope, it’s just like another starting point of life and it bring hope to us. The cover will block a part of sight to force people looking to the water that reflect the surrounding environment
This is a lively garden where all life gathers around and make life a meaningful new chapter. I am using limestone for the road material as a metaphor of tracing time, stone is going to change, but life is keep going on.
Decompose & Recompose _Presentation