BSc Architecture 4th Year Jake Johnson
Tutor: Anne Claxton
Individual Project
Process: Ritual in the rock Jake Johnson jakejohnson@sky.com One thing in life is certain: death. Burial and cremation are the most common ways in which we lay our loved ones to rest. Similar funerary rituals exist between both funerals, with burial provides the emotional closure that one requires during a time of mourning. Whereas during cremation, the bodies final committal is not witnessed and in turn does not cater to the psyche. Increasing population numbers and life expectancy has resulted in industry resources being stretched, with demand exceeding capacity. Direct cremation is an emerging trend in which the body is cremated without a service, industrialising the process while seeking to meet demand. Process seeks to address both these issues by industrialising the process while encouraging the mourner to witness the final committal. The emerging technologies of Promession, freezing, and Resomation, dissolving, have been adopted to improve the process efficiency while seeking to challenge the taboo surrounding death.
From top, left page: The process revealed; Slice through the process; Slice through the observation Right page: Shrine to the spirit; View to the infinite through the fissure; Inhabited walls; Witnessing the final committal; Gazing across the desolate 70
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