Public Intimacy

Year: 2018

Location: San Francisco, U.S.

Area: xxx

Phase: Thesis Research

Due to historical reasons, cemeteries in San Francisco, compared with other major cities in U.S., have played different urban roles. They have been rejected for almost a century, that is, there is no participation of cemeteries in recent San Francisco’s urban development. This thesis rethinks the relationship between life and death through the design of architecture of death in San Francisco. Therefore, this speculative project intends to reintegrate the architecture of death into the city’s progress, and build a new urban relationship of both intimacy and isolation. By creating a unique experience within the building, this project will be proposed as an engaging atmospheric attempt to imagine new forms of vertical architecture and more possibilities of public attitudes towards life and death.