This project examines issues of life and death, as non-religious Australians become the predominant religious demographic of the country. Drawing heavily on the outreach approach of the Wayside Chapel and tenets of humanism, this project aims to explore how a linking of theism and atheism can cope with: life and community, aid and dignity, and finally death and meaning.
The designs for a pub/club, euthanasia/outreach clinic, and a crematorium address these concepts respectively. The combination of such building types construct a cohesive story regarding life’s hardships, joys and normalcy. Each addresses different times or events for an individual, but together create a resilient community at their intersection.
It is in this way that the project revolves around 3 key points.
Every life has value.
Everyone deserves dignity.
And, they can be gone but not forgotten.