Pleasant Grove Cemetery

TUTOR: N/A

COMPLETED: 2021

OBJECTIVE: I studied my local city cemetery as the nearest public green space, to better understand its design, how it’s used, and how it connects to the larger area. I also wanted to generate ideas about how the surrounding community could strengthen or expand its current use of the landscape.

A common view of a connecting street The local community using the cemetery as a gathering place during public holidays

*Ball point pen, AUTO DESK SKETCHBOOK & colored pencils

HEADSTONE PL ANTERS

The most common reason for community members to visit was to bring plastic fl owers, signs and other small trinkets to adorn the graves of their loved ones. I wanted to provide a process that continued to beautify individual headstones while increasing planting diversity and inviting year-round communal engagement.

The idea was to build a planter around each headstone with a time capsule included in the border

The planter’s maintenance brings the family to the resting place of their loved ones with greater frequency

The time capsule provides an opportunity for family to remember and rediscover moments from the lives of their loved ones The family give to and remember their loved ones through cultivation and maintenance

Their loved ones then give back with cut fl owers, as the family brings a piece of their loved one home