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Death and the Detail: Moments of engagement along a Catholic cremation ritual procession

Bucheit, Charles
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1337101182

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2012, MARCH, University of Cincinnati, Design, Architecture, Art and Planning: Architecture.
Contemporary architecture is increasing being reduced to a singular image of a building, which often lacks articulation of its parts. This disengages architecture from the poetic expressiveness of its nature rooted in construction and negates the detail in the process. Adapting the typology of detail engagement from Edward R. Ford’s book, The Architectural Detail, this thesis will use the detail to express issues of structure, construction, performance, and program use. Focusing on the human narrative presented by the Catholic ritual of cremation, this project seeks to create meaning and engagement through corresponding moments of detail within the design of a crematorium facility in Delhi Township (Cincinnati) Ohio. While engaging the user in realities of the building as a construction, these details mark, accentuate, and support moments of the funeral procession which culminates in a hilltop committal of the ashes overlooking the Ohio River Valley. The richness of space and clarity of design expressed through the detail helps to prepare the bereaved for the difficult thoughts and emotions and create a sense of engagement. This thesis design presents several moments that, while articulated in different ways, create a family of details that resonate with one another. The richness of the detail family helps generate and articulate the building design at all scales beginning at the smallest.
John Eliot Hancock, MARCH (Committee Chair)
Jeffrey Tilman, PhD (Committee Member)
94 p.
Architecture
Detail; Cremation; Procession; Catholic; Chapel; Construction;

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  • Bucheit, C. (2012). Death and the Detail: Moments of engagement along a Catholic cremation ritual procession [Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1337101182

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Bucheit, Charles. Death and the Detail: Moments of engagement along a Catholic cremation ritual procession. 2012. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1337101182.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Bucheit, Charles. "Death and the Detail: Moments of engagement along a Catholic cremation ritual procession." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1337101182

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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