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PROVOKING REMEMBRANCE AND CONTEMPLATION: A NON-SECTARIAN CEMETERY DESIGN

HORN, HEATH M.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1179504358

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2007, MARCH, University of Cincinnati, Design, Architecture, Art and Planning : Architecture.
The desire for immortality and the difficulty in accepting the finality of death are universal. This acceptance, or “facing up to” one’s mortality, allows for greater importance to be placed on each moment, thus permitting one to live more fully. Influencing one to face up to mortality can be initiated by expressing the primary emotions related to death. In a work of art/architecture, expressing certain emotions can be thought of as making them more real, more tangible. The ineffable, painful emotions are then seen more clearly and can be dealt with more holistically. In contemporary western culture, the architecture of death has severely lacked in this expression and has generally focused on being neutral, or only warm and comforting. This thesis aims to create a method for this expression in the funeral rituals and in a design of a funerary chapel with crypts and columbaria, located in the central wooded area of Spring Grove Cemetery. This method will not have any religious affiliation, but will seek to identify and express archetypal views and emotions commonly held by all individuals. The expression of trying to make sense of existence and the mystery of death will be brought about by the “presencing” of more of what the forms of architecture are in reality. This will be done by Michael Benedikt’s components for direct esthetic experiences of the real. These components will be arranged in a fashion recalling the archetypal Hero’s Journey, which aims to reify the daunting repressed emotions and to transition one from the everyday environment to the environment of deep existential questioning. Lastly, components of eliciting memory in architecture will also be employed to amplify the state of remembrance in the individual.
Gordon Simmons (Advisor)
94 p.
Architecture
Architecture; Engagement; Phenomenology; Remembrance; Contemplation; Death; Cemetery; Funeral; Crypt; Columbarium; Chapel; Presence; Significance; Materiality; Emptiness; Benedikt; Heidegger

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  • HORN, H. M. (2007). PROVOKING REMEMBRANCE AND CONTEMPLATION: A NON-SECTARIAN CEMETERY DESIGN [Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1179504358

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • HORN, HEATH. PROVOKING REMEMBRANCE AND CONTEMPLATION: A NON-SECTARIAN CEMETERY DESIGN. 2007. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1179504358.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • HORN, HEATH. "PROVOKING REMEMBRANCE AND CONTEMPLATION: A NON-SECTARIAN CEMETERY DESIGN." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1179504358

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